RECYCLED GIANT SCULPTURES

Subodh Gupta, dubbed the "Damien Hirst of Delhi," created

this giant skull out of recycled stainless steel cooking

utensils. Called "Very Hungry God," it first exhibited in Paris

on 2006 — a year before Hirst’s rather more extravagant

diamond-encrusted skull showcased at London’s White Cube

gallery. For Gupta, the utensils and the skull are

representative of India, where the poor, the middle class and

the rich all have pots and pans in their homes, but where

some will starve because they have no food to cook.

SARAH-JANE VAN DER WESTHUIZEN

The art is created from old car parts, recycled metal pieces,

and anything the artist could get her hands on.

Van der Westhuizen has installed several of these trash

sculptures all over Europe.

DAVID MACH

Hundreds of used coat hangers go into the sculpture work

of David Mach, who uses other recycled materials to do

larger-than-life sculptures.

This gorilla is one of his most impressive examples.

TOM SUMUI

ANTHONY HEYWOOD

He created the colourful sculpture from 2,000 items of

old footwear.

ANDRIES BOTHA

These sculptures are made from recycled wood and are

on De Panne beach, in Belgium. The fact that these giant animals

are turning to the ocean emphasize the high drama of their

disappearance in the mists of time.

The WEEE Man is a 3.3-tonne structure which represents the

amount of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE)

the average British household throws away in a lifetime.

At seven metres high, his grimacing head towers over the

Eden Project outdoor gardens. Mobile phones, mp3 players,

lawn mowers and the like make up his bones and sinews;

his teeth are computer mice; his ears are satellite dishes;

and his brain is built from computer parts.

 PORKY HEFER

There's a huge coca cola man built from crates at the

V&A Waterfront in Cape Town. 

 Porky Hefer is spreading a strong message of recycling in

his attention grabbing design named Elliot for the Coca Cola

recycling campaign.