“We produce trash, are born from trash, and will go back to trash,” says artist Ha Schult. To try and emphasize growing waste levels in the world, the Trash People were created by HA Schult in the late 1990s from electronic waste and metal cans.
Schult’s Trash People is a breathtaking collection of 1,000 “people” formed out of items we bin on a daily basis—old computers, tin cans and assorted plastic pieces.
Eurocell writes: “Requiring more than 6 months and a team of 30 assistants to complete, these Trash People have traveled the world, popping up alongside magnificent monuments such as the Pyramids of Giza, or dotted along the Great Wall of China.”
“Today’s Coca-Cola bottle is the Roman archaeological find of tomorrow. The pyramids of the present are the garbage dumps,” said Schult in 1999.
This video proves his point.