Sociedade Ponto Verde, in partnership with the Berardo Museum is organising recycling workshops at weekends and inviting children, young people and adults to help build a creation with recycling materials.

The idea is to associate the issue of recycling with the works by the Brazilian artist Vik Muniz currently on show at the gallery. Muniz is one of the most successful artists today and is famous for his images made with materials that are apparently useless. The workshop participants will be given an image to fill in with materials like wood chippings, paper and plastic granules.

\"The idea of organising this initiative is to demonstrate that the packaging that we put in the recycling drop-off containers has some value. The materials used to create the piece come from the packaging recycling process. These are the ones that become new objects and packaging, but can also be used to create beautiful pieces of art,\" said Luís Veiga Martins, Managing Director of Sociedade Ponto Verde, the company responsible for organising and managing the take-back and recovery of packaging waste.

The free workshops take place from 3 to 6 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays and combine recycling with the use of materials for art, in order to raise people\'s awareness of the value of materials that are no use to us any more.

Muniz has proved this with the work currently on display at the Berardo Collection Museum until 31 December. The exhibition is sponsored by Sociedade Ponto Verde.

Vik Muniz surprised the world with a series of pictures made from rubbish collected by \"waste pickers\" at Jardim Gramacho, one of the largest landfills in the world, on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. They were shown in the documentary Waste Land, nominated for the Oscar^® for Best Documentary Feature in 2011.