From Badlands of Plastics to Up-cycled Objects: Tertium Non Data

Abstract

Roland Barthes (1991) stated, “A miracle is always a sudden transformation of nature.” Originally, plastic could be seen as a man-made material (thing) transformed from a natural material. Plastic is a new “perfect” material-object produced from earthly raw material. Although its discovery time is not very long, it is obvious that it has a long lifetime after once produced. That is why it is needed to find sustainable ways to manage the world of plastic objects. There are many re-cycling projects related with plastics, but here I would like to mention an “up-cycling” project of plastics. It is a “revaluation process” of plastics, it is “Tertium Non Data” done by Gülnur Özdağlar. In this miraculous process, useless-epidemic-uninspired plastic things transformed into something endemic and unique. “Tertium Non Data” could be a sustainable way of living with plastics.