Garbage on Display

What better way to see the amount of garbage we create by physically showing us. Justin Gignac is a New York City artist that has collected garbage from the streets of New York, and placed them in clear cubes. In 2001 he began creating and selling these cubes to people all over the world. Really! People are actually buying garbage, that really people would have thrown out or they would have thrown out. I guess that is quite a clever way on the artists part to show people our garbage as well as showing people to think twice of what they throw out. He is simply stating that you can reuse material more often then you think.

Here is some of his work: