How fitting: a liquid container recycled into a flower that grows on water. Turkey's Gulnur Ozdaglar takes plastic bottles and turns them into all sorts of gorgeous vessels, buttons and jewellery, like these clear lotus rings.
Above, another flower ring made of recycled bottles (pop, milk and shampoo) from Pennsylvania's Kathy DellaValle.
Bonus link: German designer Mirjam Hüttner collaborated with goldsmith Sabine Schwippel to create this wedding band made from a recycled TetraPak box.
Even more jewellery:
- MapleXO (Portland, OR) - recycled skateboards
- Heyday (Vancouver) - porcelain cubes
- Vivian Mayer (Brazil) - metal & gems
- Megan Dawn Harris (South Carolina) - silver & stones
- Shauna Blythe Burke (New York) - organic gold