Every day I now walk past The WEEE Man (a seven metre high human- ish) figure made out of three tonnes of WEEE (waste electrical and electronic equipment). It's a startling illustration of the amount of electrical waste that one UK resident consumes and discards in a lifetime. I'm pretty sure that I've already gotten through more WEEE than that... Maybe in 30 or so years time they will try to build another WEEE Man and by then it will tower over the city like some machine Godzilla!!?
The WEEE Man is made up of:
12 washing machines
10 fridges
Eight cookers
Six microwaves
Three tumble-driers
Three dishwashers
Two freezers
Five heaters
19 electric fans
95 small household appliances – including vacuum cleaners, irons and toasters
35 pieces of IT equipment - including computers and mobile phones
55 pieces of consumer equipment – including TVs, videos and camcorders
Its teeth, for example, have been made from computer mice, the spine is formed from an old washing machine and the neck is composed of vacuum cleaner tubes.
The sculpture is currently on view at Potter's Fields, next to City Hall on the South Bank of the Thames... and it looks even cooler at night because it lights up!! See below:
