Researching the Sustainable Possibilities of Glass as a Creative Material

Abstract

This paper explores how glass as both a recyclable material and a creative artistic material contributes to the sustainable development. More specifically, this paper discusses how glass artists and makers reuse and recover glass materials that could enhance the artistic and recycling capabilities of glass materials. Environmental crisis is proved by the scientific evidence that we have to take action as quickly as possible; the earlier we response effectively and efficiently, the less environmental impact we and our descendants confront (Stern, 2006, McDonough and Braungart, 2009). On the one hand, we are currently looking for methods to solve the problems of the global climate changes; on the other hand, the ethical imperative within public has to be encouraged from passively adapt to sustainability, to actively devote to sustainability (Blackburn, 2001).