design

The Zero Waste Lifeline design team wanted to celebrate the reclamation of a site in which the nearby hills are built from mountains of waste:

• The sculptures suggest circulatory systems within our own bodies as well as the systems of collection, recycling and reuse.
• The forms are each 6.5 metres in diameter and 1.4 metres in height and appear to 'float' in the landscape.
• Their individual weight of 2.5 tonnes belies their delicate positioning in the landscape.
• The rings add a very subtle colouration to the landscape, with infills of glass bottles to represent the capturing and reuse of valuable natural resources.
• Zero Waste Lifeline's three structures sit comfortably within the landscape instead of attempting to dominate it.

The challenges facing our civilisation are overwhelmingly large. We cannot avert disaster by flicking a single giant switch. Rather, it is up to each one of us to do what we can, to make a series of changes in our habits, to become part of the ever-changing mosaic of responses that will carry our planet forward.

Cathoel Jorss, writer, Zero Waste Lifeline