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Metro Ticket in Exchange for Plastic Bottles in Rome

Mila Luleva — Wed, 16 Oct 2019 13:00:12 +0000

Rome introduced a new incentive to tackle plastic pollution and I’m loving it! The city officials have placed special machines on three main metro stations. The machines take empty plastic bottles, crush them, sort them and give ‘digital money’ in return. The value of a plastic bottle is 5 cents. This means that you would […]

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FloWater Raises Extra Funding for Water Bottle Refilling Stations

Mila Luleva — Sat, 05 Jan 2019 15:12:26 +0000

FloWater, manufacturers of water bottle refilling stations, just raised the incredible $15 million. Only eight years old, the company has already pleased customers like Google, Airbnb, and even Red Bull. It is insane how something simple like having a sip of water can have such a big impact. If you are somewhere on the street, […]

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New Recycled Plastic Bottles Made from 100% Ocean Plastic Debris

Mila Luleva — Wed, 15 Apr 2015 15:16:34 +0000

Method and Envision Plastics proposes recycling of ocean plastic debris into new, eco-friendly recycled plastic materials that can make up our future disposable bottles. We have covered the topic of reusing plastic bottles and recycled plastic quite extensively over the past few years. Plastic bottles, plastic bags, food packaging, all these contribute greatly to the overall state […]

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Cash for Containers: Recycling Machines Give Free Movie Tickets

Mila Luleva — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 18:44:09 +0000

The “Cash for Containers” program is expected to cut down public litter by providing citizens with the exact incentive they want. In order to encourage recycling, Sydney’s city council has provided people with kiosks which allow them to choose what they would like in return for their plastic bottles and soda cans. With so much […]

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First Ever Plastic Bottles Made Out of Ocean Waste Hit Supermarket Shelves

Mila Luleva — Tue, 13 May 2014 11:23:17 +0000

The horror stories about plastic pollution of our oceans are hitting us almost every other day. Some of the most shocking ones include the sabotaging of the search for the Missing MH370 Flight by ocean garbage, and the one that showed pictures of newly discovered areas at the bottom of the ocean, that already had garbage […]

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Teijin’s Waterproof Paper Made of Recycled Plastic Bottles

Benji Jerew — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 17:58:58 +0000

There’s always another use for recycled materials, Teijin’s new waterproof paper is made of recycled plastic bottles and can be put in a standard laser printer. We’re likely familiar with waterproof papers, and while they’re useful to a certain point, they require special handling and printing techniques. I have trail maps and guidebooks made of […]

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PET Bottles Used to Sustain Wind Power

Cristi — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:47:50 +0000

Some people have realized that our interference with the planet's ecosystems is in most cases disastrous and have come with several ideas to diminish our influence on the environment. Industrial designer Chris Allen has come up with an idea to use plastic bottles that we usually throw away to help generate energy from wind.

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