Recycled Bottle Lamps by Sarah Turner

A Few months ago we wrote about a green competition that was hosting a recycling challenge for innovative green designers. Sarah Turner’s beautiful ReDesign Lamp were a winner and my personal favorite. Sarah creatively reuses plastic bottles and transforms them into decorative lighting. The bottles are all collected from local cafes, which are cleaned and sandblasted. Then with some clever cutting they are transformed into awesome shapes. Only 5.5% of plastic bottles are recycled in the UK so these lights aim to do something creative with them while saving a few bottles from landfills.

Coca Cola 30

Sarah’s “three” shades reuse varying numbers and brands of plastic bottles. There’s a ‘Cola 30’ and a ‘Cola 10’ named as such because they reuse 30 and 10 Coca Cola bottles. The smallest is a table lamp, ‘Little Oasis’, which reuses a single Oasis bottle. It’s a small yet cool miniature version of its larger Coca Cola cousins.

Coca Cola 10

Sarah’s creative shades have been selected to take part in a competition at the Ideal Home Show in London. They’re competing against 25 other designs for the title of Concept Product of the Year. So if you like this innovative example of ‘reclaimed design’ show Sarah your support and vote for her here. She’s got my vote!