These popsicles are pretty, but you’re not going to want to eat one, trust us

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These colourful popsicles look like artisanal dessert treats.

But those little dots aren’t chia seeds. They’re sewage.

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Hung I-chen, Guo Yi-hui and Cheng Yu-ti, students at the National Taiwan University of Arts, collected sewage runoff from 100 locations in Taiwan to make these popsicles.

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Their frozen creations were then replicated with transparent polyester resin. The replicas are accurate down to the tiniest detail — from the colour of the popsicles, to the detritus found in the samples. Read more…

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