This year’s Christmas tree is made from single-color disposable plastic bottles. However, it doesn’t mean that the entire tree is made solely of bottles. The plastic is used for its textural decoration, as it is a suitable material for this purpose. Plastic is lightweight, transparent, allows light to pass through, and is easy to cut, carve, and assemble into spatial segments.
The tree is transformed from the Hanseatic Cities Tree that has been standing in Town Hall Square all summer. Its metal axis becomes the trunk of the Christmas tree. By using the existing rings and additional structures, as well as ropes, the tree’s shape is changed into a trapezoid. The decorations on the tree are made of thin metal welded spheres, to which textured emerald plastic, made from single-use bottles, is attached. This creates the appearance of glasshouses, and when combined with special LED lights, they sparkle like emeralds.
The emerald-coloured tree is highly original in its decorations, produced with safe manufacturing principles, and infused with love, craftsmanship, and ingenuity. Inside the Kaunas tree, visitors can leave wishes, dreams, and write down their desires. Stepping into the tree, they discover a true, green childhood tree where they can see themselves and their dreams reflected in the decorations.
The Kaunas tree, made from plastic bottles, will now proudly be featured in the Guinness World Records as the tallest sculpture made of bottles. The tree’s decoration involved the use of 42,000 plastic bottles secured with 150,000 plastic bottle caps. This unique creation has garnered significant attention from the media and designer communities in the United States, Spain, Germany, Poland, Scotland, and other countries.
