Aluminum Drop Dress
Environment, Recycling, Fashion, Art, Sustainability, Creativity, Green, Reuse
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Commissioned by Novelis Recycling in 2004.
Post-consumer
aluminum cans were hand cut into teardrops and circles and hand sewn
onto a 1920s flapper dress made from an old cloth shower curtain. The
Dress and shoes took 200 hours to create.
Recycling aluminum saves
energy and conserves natural resources.
Making new cans from recycled aluminum conserves natural resources by
decreasing the demand for the raw material required to make aluminum
from ore. It also uses 95% less energy and creates 95% less Green House
Gas emissions. The current recycling rate for aluminum cans is 51% in
the U.S. and 75% of all aluminum ever produced is still in use.
Recycling is a simple way to reduce one’s carbon footprint and become an
eco-leader!
Source:
Novelis Recycling
Nancy Judd (505) 577-9712
Dress Photos by Eric Swanson, Details by Sandrine Hahn
