JOHANNESBURG, Nov 4 — To many they are just filthy-looking jumbo bags bursting at the seams with recyclable waste wheeled along the streets of South Africa’s largest city. But now graffiti artists are giving them a makeover, spray-painting them with bold and bright designs to encourage...
JOHANNESBURG, Nov 4 — To many they are just filthy-looking jumbo bags bursting at the seams with recyclable waste wheeled along the streets of South Africa’s largest city.
Painting the bags is a “fun way to create some sort dialogue,” said the coordinator at Shade, a Johannesburg centre where artists buy recyclable material from the waste pickers. Every morning they scour through garbage bins and skips outside residential districts, collecting and sorting recyclable bottles, paper, plastics and aluminium.
If people see the art, “it gives a little bit of identity to that bag and hopefully to that person” filling it, said Botha.The reclaimers criss cross the city day and night, and some motorists even consider them a risk because their trolleys, lacking reflectors, are not always easily visible.“They do a lot of work, they save the city a lot of money,” she said, after drawing a bright yellow face on one bag.
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