PET bottles
Dec 12 2008, Anupam

Eco Factor: Artwork created from old PET bottles.

Trashed PET bottles pose a serious threat to the environment, owing to the thousands of years they might take to decompose. Recycling this threat into functional objects is nothing new on...

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