GUATIRE, Venezuela, Aug 26 (Reuters) – On the outskirts of Caracas, dozens of kids and older residents are laborious at work fastidiously gluing plastic bottle caps onto a cement wall, which in simply two weeks has changed into a colourful mural displaying the sides of two huge, blue-winged macaws.
The “eco-mural” in Guatire, 42 kilometers (26 miles) east of Venezuela’s capital, is the design of 25-year-old artist Oscar Olivares.
FILE PHOTO:Volunteers use bottle caps for a colourful eco-mural created by Venezuelan artist Oscar Olivares (not pictured) to boost consciousness for recycling, in Caracas, Venezuela August 19, 2022. REUTERS/Gaby Oraa
Olivares, who used social media to ask the general public to contribute waste plastic, mentioned the mission will recycle round 300,000 bottle caps.
“Many individuals are recycling for the primary time of their lives due to this mural,” he mentioned. “We hope they’re going to sustain the behavior.”
Schoolteacher Osmara Aponte, who introduced half a dozen kids to work on the mural, mentioned it was a good way for them to find out about recycling. “They will study that something from a lid to any kind of plastic can develop into helpful,” she mentioned.
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Reporting by Efrain Otero, Writing by Sarah Morland; Modifying by Rosalba O’Brien
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