{"id":505247,"date":"2010-04-02T06:29:07","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T10:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.greenlaunches.com,2010:\/\/19.54585"},"modified":"2010-04-02T06:30:58","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T10:30:58","slug":"rug-made-out-of-recycled-cigarette-butts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/505247","title":{"rendered":"Rug made out of recycled cigarette butts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"cigarette_butts_rug.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenlaunches.com\/entry_images\/0410\/02\/cigarette_butts_rug.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\"\/><\/span><br \/>\nSmoking is injurious to health. But it does help make beautiful rugs too! Here\u2019s a rug made out of cigarette butts. Created by Puerto Rican artist, Jesus Bubu Negron, this rug is a masterpiece of recycling. The artist got a handful of street cleaners to pick up and collect cigarette butts shamelessly tossed on streets and with the help of a few helpers, created this piece of art. <\/p>\n<p>Though this rug won\u2019t satisfy your nicotine needs, it does make for a beautiful recycled innovation. The paper used in cigarette butts was unrolled and layered. The yellowish orange filter paper and the white cigarette roll form a pattern just like a textile rug. This would be a softer rug to tread on, had Jesus Bubu Negro have used the soft filter found in cigarette butts too! <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"cigarette_butts_rug_2.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenlaunches.com\/entry_images\/0410\/02\/cigarette_butts_rug_2.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.designboom.com\/weblog\/cat\/10\/view\/9684\/jesus-bubu-negron-cigarette-butt-street-rug.html\">Designboom<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smoking is injurious to health. But it does help make beautiful rugs too! Here\u2019s a rug made out of cigarette butts. Created by Puerto Rican artist, Jesus Bubu Negron, this rug is a masterpiece of recycling. The artist got a handful of street cleaners to pick up and collect cigarette butts shamelessly tossed on streets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":767,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-505247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/767"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}