Plastic Water Bottles as Art

Turns out plastic bottles—like the ones Fiji Water comes in—are good for something after all: art. Earlier this year, environmental activist David de Rothschild set sail with a crew of six to steer a boat made entirely of used plastic bottles around the world. Meanwhile, back in the US, artist Ellen Driscoll constructed a miniature landscape made entirely of 2,600 #2 plastic bottles. According to Driscoll, the project, titled "FastForwardFossil: Part 2" is "a ghostly translucent visual fugue in which a nineteenth century trestle bridge plays host to an eighteenth century water-powered mill which spills a twenty-first century flood from its structure." The exhibit closed this week at the Smack Mellon Gallery in Brooklyn, but photos are online here. And click through to see more below the jump.

• Fiji Water: Spin the Bottle

  How did a bottled water imported from a far-off military dictatorship become the epitome of cool?

• How Far Did Voss and San Pellegrino Travel to My Whole Foods?

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• Mother Jones Responds to Fiji Water

  Charity is great. Still no comment on the junta.