ArtCycle Materials Bank
Artform: Designing/Making / Fashion, jewellery and textiles / Visual Arts
Services: Classes & Workshop – children and young people / Classes & Workshop – adults / Consultancy & Freelance / Facilitation / Products & Commissions
Solar Fuelled Recycling Roadshow 2024
Driving the power of art into a town near you!
Recycle | Reduce | Reshape
The current waste disposal system is broken! The ArtCycle MB was the brain-child of Stephen Corcoran. A vision for a valuable community material bank using single-stream separation formula where no materials are deliberately destroyed due to contamination.
Our philosophy is creative education stimulates innovative thinking, harnessing craft skills, through a rich mixed-medium approach. Offering our society the chance to change their relationship with consumption and waste, whilst empowering young people to be plastic-preneurs.
Get rewarded
In the future our not for profit community hub will exchange your rubbish for credits. Help your community become clean, sustainable and filled with potential.
Our six-sided marquee holds a series of zero-waste creative workshops, facilitated by Agents Of Change and fuelled by solar panels. Local artists, festival sculptors, designers, and luxury craft entrepreneurs will inspire and activate all boys and girls. With an abundance of knowledge, creativity will flow and anti-social behaviours will change as trash is transformed into treasure. We want to spread the word to help schools save money and households save resources.
History
Have you ever stood over the recycling bin wondering whether it should go in? Back in 2006 at Stephen Corcoran the inventor of NiftyBins™, was working as an installation artist at the popular Electric Picnic music festival in Ireland. Whilst he was kicking plastic cups and cans out of the way to clear his path, something remarkable happened that changed how we can think about waste and our future.
It’s Not Rubbish. It’s Valuable Material!
Facilitated by Agents Of Change made up of artists, sculptors, designers, and craft entrepreneurs. Art has the power to move people and become priceless once reused.
Divided into key material areas we want you to immerse yourself in our workshops with your chosen material. By reworking glass; cutting and folding metal; sewing soft plastics; moulding and shaping hard plastics; working compost and bio-fuel, sculpting and mashing paper. We host fascinating talks on sacred geometry, wellness and how to be your environment.
Discover how general waste items are given a second life by creating beautiful objects and you will graduate as the next Agent Of Change, delivering a bright green message to the world.
Separation Education Workshops
By sponsoring this project your good money will change the world's relationships with waste. We can ALL achieve the following to achieve a circular economy:
- Helping young people to know their true potential, by enhance young people's skills and entrepreneurship
- Empower them through creative workshops
- Help schools to reduce waste and save money
- Advise schools to become drop-offs
- Supplying raw materials for schools, commercial brokers and local economic manufacturers
- Every town can use the model to reduce waste, partner with town councils
- Reduce litter and anti-social behaviour
- Reduce household waste
There is a need to address this with a strong educational plan, using art, craft and digital media to bring home this simple message through interactive workshops. So far a team of five unpaid professionals have launched the product and website and now we need your help to achieve the following:
- A marquee tent for the recycling roadshow with solar panels to show the potential
- Equipment such as a Precious Plastics (which melts rubbish plastic)
- Community hub building for permanent workshop space and bailing
- Marketing material to promote the community interest company
- Material to give to schools
- Online training programmes
- Face-to-face to train the trainers
Workshops are developed to help everyone see things differently and becoming an Agent Of Change is progressed through three inspiring development workshops:
An Introduction To Materials
Lack of separation is the reason current recycling processes are not fit for purpose. Recycling contamination occurs when materials are sorted into the wrong recycling bin (placing a glass bottle into a mixed paper recycling bin for example), or when materials are not properly cleaned, such as when food residue remains on a plastic yogurt container. Our practical and playful workshops will start at the beginning with a mixture of engaging a
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