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Dan welcome Christmas with a large tree in the Americas
posted on: Dec 3 2011 8:17 by RDugey. Viewed 19 times.
The Mayor of Santo Domingo Este welcomed him to Christmas with the lighting of a tree made of recycling.
The work of art was made with five thousand bottles of soft drinks and their garlands from funditas of snacks and the labels on the bottles, while the Easter roses are also bottles and the star of plastic, all collected from the streets of the town by 105 men and women.
The tree was installed on the Boulevard of the autopista Las Americas with Venezuela, and designed by the architect Xiomara Reynoso, and his execution was carried out by Nathalia Hernández, who had worked with people that collected the raw material of the routes of the municipality.
Recycled art beautifies a broad section of the Las Americas Highway, tunnels and bridges, as well as poses of power lines and other areas of the city with the different Christmas motifs, which were also used other three thousand bottles and thousands of u000acast of snacks and labels on bottles, among other wastes that the human eye simulates details acquired in any of the major squares in the country.
The Mayor of Santo Domingo Este, Juan de los Santos, stressed that this decoration is to leave a message and is in the municipality are applied the three "R", or reduce, reuse and recycle.
Pointed out that with the new version of the Christmas tree is intends to promote the preservation of the environment.
In the Act of lighting of the tree, also aired a craft exhibition made of bottles, cardboard, napkins, paper, among other materials of which were sold to the public bracelets, chains, flowers, tomatoes, balls and others.
The spokeswoman for the Mayor, Mildred Charlotte, explained that it is the first occasion that makes a waste by Christmas tree the cabildo.
Stated that the idea is that other cabildos reproduce, u000abecause it means less investment and contributes to the environment.
"We use at least eight thousand bottles and an immense amount of funditas and other materials that were junk and became it a work of art", he added.
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