LONDON: Hairy from his work and locked up in London by Coronavirus Lockdowns, Flora Blathwayt set up a business based on the garbage he took from the banks of the River Thames.
More than a year after he was hit by the colors of plastic pieces he collected as part of the river cleaning, the 34-year-old player made and sold thousands of greeting cards decorated with them every week.
When he moved to Peckham Southeast East London, he sent a group of plastic decorated cards to the closest residents who offered help if they protected from Covid-19.
“They are all the first washing-up card,” he said.
“Some of my neighbors like ‘this extraordinary, you have to start selling this’,” he told Reuters.Dence now work on cards next to part-time work for companies that sell packaging that he combines after being rushed by, and then Excessively made from, a business that makes sauce from unwanted fruits and vegetables.
Geography graduates, he did not have formal art training but enjoyed being outside and found a new potential on old buttons or plastic straws when cleaning the river bank to a local environmental charity.
He now produces around 4,000 cards a week, he said, and sees his success as part of a wider movement.
“I think the way forward will be the person who does things and starting a business that doesn’t have much impact.
The environment, does it reuse something, is it upcycling something, does it make something from waste.
I think it’s a way forward, “He said.” So I hope people will do more and them.
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All washed – London Furloughed found good luck in Thames
