YOU CAN REUSE THIS ENVELOPE AGAIN PROJECT, 2008, is an interactive, community-based art project that encourages individuals to recycle envelopes by reusing them over and over again. This project will help protect nature by saving more of our trees from being cut down. If an approximate 5360 envelopes can be reused it would save 1 tree (Source: www.earth911.com). An envelope travels from place to place, across continents and is accessible to almost everyone worldwide. The recycled envelope itself becomes a simple, educational tool to promote environmental awareness and to spread the message about the importance of recycling.
Baptist Coelho’s initiative, YOU CAN REUSE THIS ENVELOPE AGAIN PROJECT, 2008, requires contributors to reuse envelopes as often as possible and mark each envelope by stamping the words To find out how… www.you-can-reuse-this-envelope-again.blogspot.com The recipient will receive this message along with the mail and hopefully be encouraged to reuse this envelope and others again. Progress of this project will be documented by participants taking images of their recycled envelopes and uploading them onto: www.you-can-reuse-this-envelope-again.blogspot.com
The uploaded images will be used to build a ‘virtual tree’ on this blog. For each recycled envelope image which is uploaded a ‘leaf’ in the form of the stamped words To find out how… www.you-can-reuse-this-envelope-again.blogspot.com will be added to the ‘virtual tree’. Our ‘virtual tree’ will be filled with 5360 impressions of these stamped words, which will represent the same number of envelopes that it takes to save a tree. Once completed, another ‘virtual tree’ will be installed and our forest will continue to grow.. These ‘virtual trees' will symbolize and demonstrate how a simple effort, when done collaboratively, can make a difference toward sustaining a greener and healthier planet.
The YOU CAN REUSE THIS ENVELOPE AGAIN PROJECT, 2008, is a collaborative effort for everyone worldwide to spread the word about recycling. It plays only a small part in saving our planet but it can be an important part.
