Temple of Trash !

At Heijplaat, an old district of Rotterdam, during the folly festival FollyDock 2007, the SALZIG Design Team created the temporary TEMPLE OF TRASH. The construction consisted of 100 tones of bales with pressed PET bottles.

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21 Comments

  1. bambang pe - September 6, 2009

    Yes I agree, save the earth, don’t throw away plastic or trash, plastic need 100 years released in soil. Become the trash temple more beautifull scenery.

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  11. Rotterdam’s Temple of Trash Built From PET Bottles - September 9, 2009

    [...] In 2007 at the folly festival FollyDock in Rotterdam, the creative designers from SALZIG Design Team have come up with this intriguing Temple of Trash. Located in an old district of Rotterdam, this 7m high, 25m long and 10m wide trash pile consists of 100 tones of PET bottles compacted into rough cubes. The structure, which was meant to inspire recycling to both the casual visitor and the green minded, has now become an attraction serving its purpose with ease. It would be interesting to know how the Temple of Trash will look 1,000 years from now when future generations will dig it up. [via recyclart] [...]

  12. Rotterdam’s Temple of Trash Built From PET Bottles « Daily News - September 10, 2009

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  18. Jimmy - September 11, 2009

    Looks like Wall-E’s handiwork.

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  20. Temple of Trash | - September 15, 2009

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  21. reciclantes - November 10, 2009

    Por fin un monumento para el siglo XXI!
    Touché!

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