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‘Everybody’s Looking for Plastic.’ As waste increases, recycling also increases.

DAKAR, Senegal – At Senegal’s largest landfill, a crowd holding curved metal nails over rubbish dumped from a dump truck hacked the garbage in search of valuable plastic. Nearby, rolled up sleeves, foamed up to the elbows, the women washed the plastic drums in rainbow colors and smashed them into pieces. Around them are piles …

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Israeli Artist Turns Plastic Pollution Into ‘Earth Poetica’

JERUSALEM — When Jerusalem-based artist Beverly Barkat began creating an artwork for the lobby of a building in the new World Trade Center complex overlooking the ground zero in Lower Manhattan, she aimed to find something architecturally specific and impressive, big enough to connect. with space but not big enough to break from the observer. …

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Adding Plastic, Glass, and Metal to the Recycling List: Fake Art

Anyone who thinks that works of art that have been declared counterfeit are simply lost or destroyed in disgrace should speak to Jane Kallir, the catalog’s author. Raisonné for the Austrian painter Egon Schiele. He said that the same fake Schiele watercolor was offered to him for authentication 10 times by 10 different collectors. Or …

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Alan Heller, who beautifies plastic household items, dies at 81

Alan Heller, a maker of elegant, often whimsical but always affordable homewares and furniture where high design combines with bland plastic, died at his Manhattan home on August 13. He was 81 years old. His friend, Barbara Bluestone, who confirmed the death, did not specify a cause, but said he had been in poor health …

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These Anti-Covid Plastic Barriers Probably Won’t Help and Could

Covid measures have turned many parts of our world into a giant salad bar, with plastic barriers separating clerks from shoppers, separating customers in nail salons, and protecting students from their classmates. Intuition tells us that a plastic shield will protect against germs. But scientists who study aerosols, airflow and ventilation say that most of …

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Why Can Anti-Covid Plastic Barriers Be Made in Classrooms and Restaurants?

Most researchers say screens are most likely helpful in very specific situations. For example, a bus driver who is protected from the public by a floor-to-ceiling barrier is likely protected from breathing in much of what passengers breathe. A bank cashier behind a glass wall or an officer checking patients in a doctor’s office may …

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‘Ultra City Smiths’ Review: New York Neo-Noir with Plastic Dolls

If you’re looking for something different on TV, an exotic flower among endless rows of spider plants, writer and director Steven Conrad offers an interesting case. Previous series, dark-comic pastiches spy thriller (“Patriot”) and the contemporary western (“Perpetual Grace Ltd.”) were no strangers, both for being faithful to their sources and for the many high-concept …

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