Thermoplastics, of which most shopping sacks, takeout bags, trash liners, and bread bags are made, melt at relatively ... Swear By To turn your plastic bags into art, begin by layering six to ...

New York artist Hugo McCloud has created a series of artworks that contain no paint or glue, only thousands of small plastic pieces cut from single-use bags and melted together to form a motif.

MSLK’s art installation proposes to hand-tie all collected bags together in a chain made out of 2,663 linked plastic bags – a visualization of only 1 second of bag consumption in the States.

He drips melted plastic, then raises the resulting colorful plate horizontally. After looking at his website, you get the feeling that he is a multi-talented artist able to use many different mediums.

As plastic bags slowly become a ... They also “sculpt” the bags using an iron. With heat applied, they are able to melt a bag’s shape, creating more shape options without the pointed ...

Mbongeni Buthelezi uses strips of plastic melted and glued to the canvas ... and now produces this unique kind of art. He collects plastic bags from the streets around his Johannesburg studio ...