Three students teamed up with Madrona Arts – a local organization whose goal is to raise ecological awareness through the arts – to create a project titled, “Fragile. Handle with Care. Recycle”. Their goal was to bring more awareness to recycling bins by decorating them. “Every day people dump trash into recycling bins by mistake,” says one of the students working on this project. “It can really be a problem when it comes to sorting the recycling properly.” The student team and its community partner paired up for countless hours of cleaning, priming, and painting metal trash cans.
Each recycling bin was painted with a unique design such as Andy Warhol soup cans, hand prints, or a rotating earth. The words “Fragile. Handle with Care. Recycle.” were a consistent addition to each bin and an appropriate title for the theme.
Hi. I'm starting to gather information to do a similar project in my community. Can you tell me what your process was to prep the cans, and what kind of paint and finish you used? How are they holding up? Thanks in advance!
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