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Monday, May 4, 2009

Recycling, Philly Style



Photos Courtesy Nancy Packer

The Mural Arts Program of Philadelphia has transformed 10 of Philly’s colorless recycle trucks into vibrant murals. These colorful graphics were designed by students from the after school Big Picture Program. Instructor Desiree Bender explains, “I scanned in the drawings, colorized them, laid them out in Illustrator, sent them to the digital printers. It’s printed on vinyl, and it’s like a giant sticker.”

For many years, Philadelphia has ranked at the bottom in terms of its diversion rate (the amount of trash picked up as recycling) but has seen an increase since Mayor Nutter’s ’single stream’ initiative and now stands at 12%.

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  2. Thanks so much for posting this article. It is crucial that we find awesome art outlets like this for our kids. We’ve already lost so many wonderful art programs in our schools due to budget cuts. Kids NEED art!…and look what a beautiful job these kids from Philly did with the garbage trucks.
    Way to go Mural Arts Program of Philly! I will post a link on my blog http://www.kidsneedart.wordpress.com to this article. I hope more bloggers post articles like this as Visual Culture did to bring awareness about programs like this one that are successful so they can be repeated with kids elsewhere.

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