If you know Take My Scrap Car, you’ll know that the only thing we like better than recycling is reuse. After all, the whole purpose of recycling is to ensure that as much stuff gets used and reused as many times as possible, which means that if it can be used again in the first place, there’s technically no sense in recycling it!
As it’s our passion, we’re constantly keeping our ears to the ground for news of innovative reuse and recycling endeavours the likes of which both inspire and encourage proactive thinking. And every now and again, we come across something so unusual, creative and indeed curious that we just can’t help but spread the word far and wide.
In this instance, what caught our eye was a modern art project recently unveiled in Taiwan. Technically speaking, the whole thing took what it is we do here at Take My Scrap Car and flipped it on its head. We may be all about taking old cars and processing them into new things – this guy took a load of old things and made them into a new car…sort of!
What you’re looking at here is the work of one Taiwanese artist by the name of Lin Shih-Pao. His motivation apparently to demonstrate how high-end garbage can, with a little creativity, be transformed into a real work of art. And so it proved, after he took no less than 25,000 old mobile phones and went about the pain-staking process of making a car out of them! 
“[This is] modern art, carved from recycled, first-class garbage,” he said. “It’s just like a statue, slowly, slowly carved.”
“With this you can see the progression of art from traditional to modern. All produced by our high-class garbage.”
As for the obvious answer to the most obvious question of all, it’s a big no – it’s not in any way operational or even mobile. But with wheels made of cell-phones, what would you realistically expect? Still, in terms of looks there’s no denying it’s an absolute belter and certainly a creation preferable to thousands of cell-phones sitting around and gathering dust for all eternity…chances are you yourself have a few you haven’t touched for years!
Lin made no mention of it, but you have to wonder whether he was at least inspired in-part by Canstruction, who joined forces with Jeep and the FCA Foundation on Canada Day 2015 to create a life-size Jeep made entirely out of canned food. In this instance however the cans were mostly brand new and still contained food – the car was summarily dismantled after its brief outing and its ‘components’ used to provide 3,120 meals for poor families and the homeless.
And there you have it – concrete proof once again that there’s no such thing as waste…just old stuff you need a little imagination to see the value in!
For more information on responsible car recycling or to arrange a collection, get in touch with the Take My Scrap Car team today.
