Plastic Rivers: handmade with recycled fibers
Plastic River is a collection of rugs by Alvaro Catalán de Ocón and the Spanish business GAN Rugs. The yarn used to weave the rugs is from recycled plastic bottles.
Plastic River is an intriguing line of rugs made with yarn manufactured from recycled plastic garbage, created by Madrid-based Alvaro Catalán de Ocón and Spanish company GAN Rugs, who are committed to producing handmade goods with natural or recycled fibers.
Both GAN and Alvaro Catalán de Ocón support using environmentally friendly, sustainable procedures as well as regionally produced goods in their efforts to increase public awareness of social and environmental issues.
“Despite having a political message with multiple levels of interpretation. This project’s design maintains a formal appeal and a contemporary edge.
Investigate the urgent global issue of river contamination.
With their size and texture encouraging one to sit and lie down on them, making one feel like a giant floating above the landscape, I created these rugs to perfectly fit into our daily lives, says Alvaro Catalán de Ocón.
Furthermore, this inventive collection includes four different models with formats skilfully suited to the geographical characteristics of each river. From the Yangtze to the Indus, the Ganges, and the Niger. They portray accurate renditions of aerial pictures of some of the planet’s most polluted rivers.
The delicate textile work by GAN’s team of regional artisans in workshops in India. And it is much more than just a smart protest design.
Moreover, to masterfully recreate aerial Google Earth panoramas of the highlighted rivers, these remarkable products are pixel by pixel.
Additionally, the carpets have no knots using the hand-tufted method, and the yarn is from recycled PET plastic bottles.
Finally, the Plastic River No.6 Ganges rug’s eclectic, one-of-a-kind composition is made all the more unique by the discarded materials that were gathered from the area surrounding the river it depicts.
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