Ptolemy Elrington, 54, from Brighton, East Sussex, collected over 5000 wheel covers and plans to earn over 5000 pounds by transforming them into fantastic-looking creatures.

'Big Trash Animals' by Artur Bordalo is a series of artworks that aim to draw attention to waste production. The Portuguese artist has had so much success locally in getting his message across, he's now gone global, from USA to Estonia and Tahiti. Bordalo scavenges his materials from waste that was dumped in the area, which, sadly, is not that difficult.

Antoine Repessé stopped throwing away his trash back in 2011 to show everyone just how much of it we accumulate in such a relatively moderate period of time. He has accumulated over 70 cubic metres of trash: 1,600 milk bottles, 4,800 toilet rolls, and 800 kg of newspapers to then create a powerful series of photos just to show how massive our consumerism is.