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[Hayden]

One BILLION bottles every week. 52 BILLION bottles each year. 1,086,124,000 cubic feet of waste every year!...

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[Sandra Piddock]

That's actually very interesting. I didn't realise that you could do so much with recycled plastic bottles - or that the first bottle was recycled as far back as 1977. That means we've been 'green' for at least 35 years - or at least partially green. I make sure I either recycle or reuse all our plastic bottles - we seem to end up with quite a lot. If I could work out how to turn them into material, I could make my own clothes from scratch!

[mariaandrea]

Compelling indeed, and a little horrifying as well. I mean, I love seeing how recycled plastics are used and the whole process, but only 22% of almost a billion bottles are recycled?!! Yikes. So, on the one hand, thank goodness for the 22% and every little bit helps, but wow that's a lot of bottles left out for landfills and littering the environment. A lot.

[Shortpoet-GTD]

"Want to Know Where to Recycle Your Bottle Caps?

Keep

saving your lids

for the next time you need to buy some more shampoo or lotion at Aveda.

The company accepts all

polypropylene (plastic #5) lids for recycling

at its stores,

which you can quickly search for using Earth911.com.

(Don’t have an Aveda near you? Whole Foods is another national retailer that is now collecting plastic #5 products.)"
http://earth911.com/...ur-bottle-caps/

[angeldrb]

This is really informative. Scary, actually. Only 22% of plastic bottles are recycled... That can't be good.

[MakingCents]

I really hate that they can't recycle the caps and that they don't really publicize that.  So many recycle facilities don't take the time to remove hte caps so if a bottle comes in with the cap on it's not recycled.   Remove the caps people!

[Shortpoet-GTD]

And caps make up a good chunk of the junk floating in the oceans. Bah.

[MakingCents]

We use the caps at work for crafts.  We spray paint them and use them for crafts.

[steph84]

I have always recycled and never really knew what went into it. I remember seeing another viral pic about how most of the water from water bottles is just coming straight from the tap anyway. I now just refill my own bottles at home.

[zararina]

Nice to know what products are made from recycled plastic bottles and nicer if the percentage of being recycled would increase.
I thought that those we bring to junk shops and/or recycle centers are just made into bottles again.
There are some home decor products made from plastic bottle as well that I had seen on a street market here.

[MyDigitalpoint]

Rounding the above ideas, I would like to share with you this link that abounds on plastic recycling, including a video on how this is done in the UK,

This is the link