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Recycled Arts Festival flush with ways to make waste into wonders

Composting toilets, multi-function sawdust get into the act at annual fest

By Scott Hewitt, Columbian staff writer
Published: June 24, 2016, 6:05am
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The Recycled Arts Festival features art made out items that could had ended up in a landfill, but were reinvented to become art.
The Recycled Arts Festival features art made out items that could had ended up in a landfill, but were reinvented to become art. (The Columbian files) Photo Gallery

You don’t have to be an artist to get into the artful-recycling act at the Recycled Arts Festival in downtown Vancouver this weekend. Just go to the bathroom.

The newest thing about this year’s 11th annual celebration of making waste into wonders is the composting toilets. Conventional port-a-potties use chemical cleansers and deodorants to keep things from getting too fragrant — which they tend to do, anyway.

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