{"id":55834,"date":"2015-05-04T00:09:17","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T07:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=55834"},"modified":"2015-05-04T00:09:17","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T07:09:17","slug":"a-tribute-to-pet-bottles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/55834","title":{"rendered":"PET Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tIn our 21st century world, plastic is everywhere, especially plastic bottles with the widely-known abbreviation of PET. PET refers to polyethylene terephthalate, a substance found in nearly 80% of the bottles on Earth. Polyethylene terephthalate is derived from oil and does not degrade in nature, and PET bottles are quickly becoming the mascot for the pollution that&#8217;s clogging the world\u2019s landscapes and oceans. Since PET won\u2019t decompose, the bottles have to be collected and recycled.<\/p>\n<p>This overabundance of plastic bottles has turned out to be a goldmine for Czech artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.veronikarichterova.com\/en\/my-works\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Veronika Richterov\u00e1<\/a>. She uses PET bottles to create whimsical sculptures, which she has dubbed PET-ART. She\u2019s been at it since 2004, when she learned that heated plastic became very malleable and could be easily molded and sculpted.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_55845\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55845\" class=\"wp-image-55845 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Veronika-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"281\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-55845\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo, VeronikaRichterova.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_55846\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55846\" class=\"wp-image-55846 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Veronika-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"268\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-55846\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo, VeronikaRichterova.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In addition to creating phenomenal works of beauty, Veronika and her partner, Michal Cihl\u00e1\u0159,\u00a0systematically gathered\u00a0information about PET bottles and published it\u00a0in an article on her website called \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.veronikarichterova.com\/en\/pet-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Tribute to PET Bottles<\/a>.\u201d They\u2019ve also built a collection of more than 3,000 PET bottles from 76 countries. The duo photographs \u201cpopular\u201d PET-ART by &#8220;anonymous creative individuals&#8221; who use old PET bottles in ingenious ways and then use the photos to inspire viewers to reconsider the waste they put into the environment and find creative, new uses for their discarded items. Her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.veronikarichterova.com\/en\/my-works\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">online gallery<\/a> is also full of hundreds of her fantastic plastic creations.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our 21st century world, plastic is everywhere, especially plastic bottles with the widely-known abbreviation of PET. PET refers to polyethylene terephthalate, a substance found in nearly 80% of the bottles on Earth. Polyethylene terephthalate is derived from oil and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/55834\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/55834\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gift_for_gab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}