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    Montreal to completely ban plastic water bottles

    Posted on by Gareth Mankoo

    Montreal surprised and delighted the world when they announced the complete ban of plastic bags from 2018. Now, Mayor Denis Coderre made another surprising announcement last month that could change the scenario of plastic usage and waste management across the … Continue reading3

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    La Casa Ecologica de Botellas, a home made from 24,000 recycled bottles

    Posted on by gavril

    Why use bricks and the conformist materials for building your abode, when you could instead to the world and the environment as a whole a big favor and use recycled bottles instead! Alfredo Santa Cruz literally turned trash into a … Continue reading3

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    Coca-Cola to recycle PET bottles helping turn 2012 London Olympics green

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    With the 2012 London Olympics coming up, Coca-Cola is now gearing up to make sure the mess is cleaned up, well in advance. In a joint venture with ECO Plastics, Coca-Cola will soon kick off operations at Continuum Recycling located … Continue reading3

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    World Record set for most bottles recycled in eight hours in Shanghai

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    The Shanghai Education Commission and the Water Business Unit of Nestlé came up with a novel way to recycle a load of bottles and set out to break a Guinness World record in the bargain. Recycling 8,799.9 kg of bottles … Continue reading3

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    Eco-friendly building built using 1.5 million plastic bottles

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    A massive building made using more than 1.5 million PET bottles has recently been unveiled in Taiwan. This building named, ‘EcoARK’, is built by the Far Eastern Group at a price of US$3 million on the principles of ‘Reduce, Reuse … Continue reading3

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    Coca-Cola staff’s uniform recycled out of plastic bottles for Winter Olympics

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    We know of plastic bottles being recycled to make a whole lot of amazing stuff. This time, they will be used to make uniforms for the Coca-Cola staff at this year’s Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Made out of 120 plastic … Continue reading3

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    Home made of Polli-Bricks that are recycled from plastic bottles

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    After the mud homes, straw homes, wood, brick.. now comes the recycled plastic homes. Before you know it, you may have the chance to live in a house made of recycled plastics joined in a structure like a brick. A … Continue reading3

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    Plastiki boat made of plastic prepares to go on sail

    Posted on by shilpa

    Remember that boat that was made of 12,500 plastic bottles called Plastiki and how David de Rothschild, the founder of Adventure Ecology, was making preparations to steer his plastic sailboat towards the floating landfill in the Pacific Ocean? Well, it … Continue reading3

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    Boat made of 16,000 plastic bottles to sail from San Francisco to Sydney

    Posted on by shilpa

    Being ambitious is a fine quality but that has to be complemented with being smart else the equation fails. At this moment David de Rothschild in the California is preparing to attempt a 11,000 mile journey in a plastic bottle … Continue reading3

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    25 Hollywood stars to be gifted the 520-nm bags for Earth Day 2009

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    Hollywood is doing their part to save the world from global warming by taking the initiative during Earth Day this April 22. Twenty five of the top eco-conscious Hollywood actors will be given the 520-nm’s 100 per cent recycled PET … Continue reading3

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