The U.S. Embassy Abuja held an art exhibition to celebrate this year’s Earth Day. The four day event held at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel featured 30 pieces produced by ten up and coming Nigerian artists.The artwork was unusual because most of them were produced using recycled materials like bottle tops, straws, beads, broken CDs, feathers, pieces of cloth, empty juice cans, and wood-logs. This was done to demonstrate the 3Rs strategy in preserving the environment. The 3Rs stand for Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. Essentially what the artists have done is to reduce waste by reusing the items mentioned and recycling them as useful things. This is a simple enough strategy that everyone can apply to help preserve our environment.
