Trash Sculpture to Give Students a Taste of Waste at Arab American National Museum

posted on: Apr 22, 2012

A trash super-sculpture built from many smaller designs of discarded objects is one activity that’s part of a U.S.-Jordan youth collaboration aimed at learning more about consumption and waste.

The Arab American National Museum in the Detroit suburb of Dearborn holds the free Collaborative Trash Sculpture activity on Sunday — coinciding with Earth Day. It’s one of several public events included in the program called Watch Your Waste.

Another element is a Watch Your Waste e-Museum in which information and images are collected by students between the ages of 11 and 15 in southeastern Michigan and Amman, Jordan. About 90 U.S. students and 60 Jordanian students have been meeting weekly for several months learning basic digital photography and doing research projects.

Washington Examiner