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Bioeconomy Creative Competition Winner

Burcu Akkoyunlu

Flowers of bioeconomy: recycling plastic waste into embroidery hoop art​.

An original embroidery piece that represents how waste gas can be returned to nature. The chimneys represent the iconic Poolbeg Chimneys from Dublin, next to where I live. Gas lines coming out from the chimneys are sewn using hollow fiber membranes.

Flowers are made by modifying pipette tips and inoculum loops are used for the sea.

The whole piece is made by using the waste materials from my research to represent the work that I’m doing which is turning waste gas into biodegradable plastics.

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