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Jewellery from recycled bycycle inner tubes by Kathleen Nowak Tucci

“While rubber tires are an indelible part of America’s recreational landscape they create roughly 290 million scrap tires according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.  Because rubber tires don’t biodegrade easily and they are rarely recycled they usually wind up discarded in landfills throughout the country.

First attracted to the possibilities offered by the easily manipulated rubber, Tucci acquired some recycled bicycle inner tubes. Though her initial working with the rubber did not lead to the project she first had in mind, the extra pieces of rubber remained in a corner in her studio for several months. Always curious and compulsively creative, she returned to the pile of rubber one day and began to ‘play’ with it. From those odd scraps and pieces evolved necklaces and bracelets that further entranced her imagination”

via Kathleen Nowak Tucci & Handful of Salt

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