Are Ceramics Eco-Friendly?
Photo by Laura Zindel
It began with an innocent question from a potential wholesale customer in Los Angeles: How eco-friendly were ceramics artist Laura Zindel’s servingware, drinking vessels, and vases?
In a guest post on One Black Bird, Zindel details how she stayed up nights researching this storeowner’s assertion that ceramics could be anything but environmentally devastating. She began asking around, discovering mixed opinions.
Read the full post to learn more about the responses Zindel garnered, as well as the conclusion she finally came to.
Photo by Laura Zindel
Photo by Laura Zindel
Jeanette Zeis said,
July 31, 2007 at 10:22 am
Thank you so much for your insightful entry in One Black Bird. It is something I have pondered many nights while firing the electric kiln and mixing glazes. As someone who has a “green” lifestyle, the environmental impact of ceramics has been a spot of guilt. I’m glad you brought this out in the open. Many potters do use the “eco-friendly” line that I am just not comfortable with. Can’t wait to see where this can of worms leads!
Helen said,
August 3, 2007 at 7:15 am
great article. So ironic, given that most of the potters I knew at art school were pretty alternative-lifestyle tree-hugging types.
So what is a good alternative? How green is glass?
Jim said,
August 9, 2007 at 5:49 pm
I don’t think the most art is eco-friendly. Even the early cave paintings can be thought of as envirnmental damaging. Sometimes the good outways the bad