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Pete King a professional skater along with Sidewalk magazine came to do an article on the design Diving To New Heights Dumpster Art skate by Oliver Bishop-Young”skateboard parks, he has a more serious ambition. Taking Dumpster Art skate Diving To New Heights-Oliver Bishop-Young. Extreme Recycling: The Art skate of Dumpster Diving, Real and Virtual a surfboard company that works more like a skate brand? Kinda a awesome Creative and Unique idea. Iamajoey Recycled Dumpster Art skate by Oliver-Bishop Young in 2001 Roadsworth began his street art career with a cause, more bike lanes for Skippin All Over the Place and Skateboarding Oliver Bishop-Young says dumpsters have a lot of potential to change how we interact.

The following is a series of conversions that include Dumpster a Art Swimming Pool at Taking Dumpster Art Skip Waste by Oliver Bishop-Young..

The second project (shown here) involved converting empty skips into public spaces such as Art skate parks.

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Bits of wood and boards are commonly found in skips.

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It takes little time collect enough to build a skate ramp.

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Adding copeing to the edge of the skip completes the design and was enough to get Sidewalk magazine to bring Pete King down to try it out.

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It is easy to find the small amount of materials you need to build a skate ramp in a skip.

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He says salvaging material from dumpsters is already an unofficial art.

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The converted empty dumpsters into public spaces such as skate parks.

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Skip ramp is made from a collection of materials gathered from skips; it reuses them to form a mini ramp in a skip.

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Skip ramp was one of many conversions made to the skip using reclaimed materials.

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A skate ramp requires two main modifications.

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Firstly, a curved transition needs to be fitted to the two bottom corners of the skip.

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Secondly a bar needs to be fitted to the rim to form the coping.

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