A 10-foot-tall statue made out of e-waste has been created by a Jaipur-based artist using over 250 PCs, 200 motherboards, cables, 15,000 rivets, and more than 9,000 screws. The "Matraka" monument, which was erected outside the Mall Road branch of the State Bank of India (SBI) in Kanpur, depicts a woman sitting on a 5-foot-high platform with her legs crossed and her hands folded.
The SBI logo serves as the statue's effigy's face. 'Matraka' refers to a woman or a creative. Sculptor Mukesh Kumar Jwala came up with the idea for this statue, and he and his crew worked hard to finish it in a month. Various bank branches provided the e-waste that was used to create the statue.
E-Waste Given Another Life
This e-waste marvel was created using various computer components. Its height without the platform is 15 feet, not 10 feet. The waste from more than 250 desktop computers was used to create this statue, Jwala told PTI via phone from Jaipur.
"An iron rod framework was created, and using the CPUs' outer bodies as molds, the statue's shape was molded onto it." Later, clothing for the figure was created using computer components. For this, more than 200 motherboards were divided into thousands of little parts, the speaker claimed. The statue's construction also included the usage of SMPS (switched mode power supply), RAM, a mouse, cables, modem cards, aluminum components, keyboards, and DVD writers, among other things.
According to Jwala, who has worked on a number of such projects in various states in the past, the statue is held together by 15,000 rivets and 9,000 screws. He claimed that the SBI logo was created using many debit and credit cards. In Uttar Pradesh, e-waste has never before been utilized in this manner.
Neelesh Dwivedi, the SBI Deputy General Manager, claimed that he and one of his superiors discovered Jwala's work while seeking ways to dispose of e-waste and decided to contact him. "Matraka" humanizes SBI as a woman and demonstrates our bank's dedication to the environment, according to Dwivedi.
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