Aluminum Drop Dress

Aluminum cans make this dress POP!

Hand-cut teardrops and circles from aluminum cans embellish both dress and shoes. The 1920s retro flapper dress was sewn from a used cloth shower curtain. This matching combo took 200 hours to create. Created in 2004.

Commissioned by Novelis

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From cans to airplanes, aluminum is easy to recycle!

Following are some of the environmental benefits from recycling one ton of aluminum:

• Saves 95 percent of the energy required.
• Avoids the emission of about 10 tons of CO2 equivalents.
• Reduces the use of natural resources and chemicals (caustic soda, aluminum fluoride and lime).
• Eliminates the need for 5 tons of bauxite ore to be mined.
• Eliminates the generation of nearly 2 tons of red mud byproduct.

Source: Novelis