Artist creates 'Latin American Mona Lisa' with plastic bottle caps

Children look at a mural made with plastic bottle caps by Olivares on an apartment building in the Zacamil neighbourhood in Mejicanos, El Salvador. Photo: AFP

Call it a Renaissance in recycling.

A massive mural made of plastic bottle caps depicts Latin America's version of the famed Mona Lisa, adorning a modest apartment building in a working class neighbourhood outside the capital of El Salvador instead of the walls of the Louvre.