Tower Of Trash Celebrates (Bemoans?) The Accumulation Of Copious Amounts Of PET Plastic

I have a few questions, and it would be great if someone would just jump right in and help me to answer them.

a) Is this really art?

b) Is this a celebration of our (until now somewhat) untapped recycling potential?

c) Is this just a sad reminder of just how much waste our society generates?

d) None of the above.

In case you were wondering, this isn't what happens when people at the local plastic recycling facility get a little bored.

This is what happens when Rotterdam's SALIZIG Design Team intentionally arranges 100 ton bales of compressed PET plastics into a towering sculpture called "Temple Of Trash".

While it was constructed back in 2007 as part of the International Ideas competition called FollyDock (they actually scored the "runner up" nod), it seems just as pertinant today.

I'm not viewing it as "art" per se, but as a sign of our progression into being a full throttle waste collection society.

For Rotterdam to collect THAT MANY BOTTLES seems like a pretty good thing in my book...and perhaps seeing hundreds of similar Temples Of Trash might not be so much an eyesore as a symbol of our spreading environmental awareness and recycling success.

It sure is pretty darn homely, though  ;)