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Nigeria’s ‘Waste Museum’ showcases art to raise awareness on waste

Nigeria’s ‘Waste Museum’ showcases art to raise awareness on waste

SEUN SANNI INSIDE Nigeria's 'Waste Museum' in Ibadan city, Jumoke Olowookere works on her latest creations made out of used tyres to add an addition to a wide collection produced from used plastic and fabric, wine corks and corn husks, among other materials. Olowookere, who says her museum is the first of its kind in Africa, joins a growing number of Nigerians who are using waste material to make art and fashion to highlight the damaging impact of waste on the environment. In Nigeria, Africa's biggest oil producer with more than 200 million people, plastic waste in particular, in the…
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Fashion from waste

Fashion from waste

ELLEN WULFHORST UNLIKE some designers, Daniel Silverstein doesn't mind when others freely copy his style. In fact, the designer of fashion from scraps and fabric remnants welcomes imitators. "The more people that do this, the more we see a solution," the New York-based designer told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. "My job is to keep innovating and pushing forward and creating new things for people to rip off." Silverstein, whose fashion company is Zero Waste Daniel, creates clothing from bits and bolts of leftover cloth, with an eye to using, reusing and recycling all that he can. From a storefront studio…
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