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Bring Your Own Container
Deposit-refund schemese are a great way of increasing reuse. They create the financial incentive for reusing. A great example of this are restaurants that support returning a takeaway container or bringing your own containers. Often they simply pass the cost of the container to you, giving you the choice on whether they wish to pay…
Plastic Bottles for Water Disinfection
Plastic bottles can be reused after you’ve finished using them the first time. Often the uses are a lot different to it’s original purpose. This one’s quite helpful if you ever find yourself with a microbially infected water supply. Fill the plastic bottle with the water, place the bottle in the sunlight, ontop of a…
Bring Back Glass Bottle Reclamation
Glass bottle reclamation used to be the way of the land. Bottles had value and were returned to the vendor for a deposit. This can increase return of bottles, like the 10c deposit helps to clean up cans in South Australia. Glass is more recyclable than plastic, and very reusable (unlike PET plastic). This isn’t…
Turtle Friendly Beer Rings
A brewery over in the USA has pioneered a more environmentally method of securing 6 pack cans of beer. Their new method replaces the plastic rings, responsible for deaths of many marine life, with edible rings made from by-products of the beer production process. That’s a method of plastic reduction I’ll drink to. http://www.saltwaterbrewery.com/blog/2016/5/31/whats-brewing-at-saltwater-brewery
Plastic Bottles as Vases
A plastic bottle can be repurposed into a vase. Pick a large enough bottle, and cut off the top. To increase it’s aethetics, consider painting, or cutting up and weaving the neck. http://wonderfuldiy.com/wonderful-diy-woven-plastic-bottle-vase/
common good
We’re glad to see common good embrace a business model that breaks disposable culture, a model based on reusability.
Disappearing Packaging
The ultimate goal of Reduce is to only use the bare minimum, to eliminate as much waste as possible. One designer has a few suggestions that could lead to almost no packaging, and very little waste.
Plastic Bags
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Plastic Bottles Building Ideas
Discarded plastic bottles are responsible for a lot of plastic waste, recycling can only return so much, so here are a couple of ideas I’ve found, inspired by our previous post. Plastic bottles as insulation Gases make great insulation, as does plastic istelf. Plastic bottles can be shreaded and used as insulation, or they can…
Plastic Bottles Islands
For the enterprising minds among us, plastic water bottles are capable of being used to help create an island. Richart Sowa has done this (twice) in Mexico, using over 150 thousand bottles as the foundation for his Joyxee Island. Plastic bottles float, so if you collect, or rescue, enough you can create your own floating…
Plastic Bottles as Tornados
Plastic bottles are a big source of plastic waste, but there are many ways to reuse them. One fairly simple one is creating a tornado toy for a child. It’s as adding water to the bottle and spinning it around, though will work better with detergent, and glitter to help it along and make it…
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