polythene recycling

Just to remind you, polythene is a simple plastic, (you can tell it by its kind of stretchy feel.)It can be recycled any number of times – some say indefinitely.

 It is used to make bread bags,veg sacks, toilet paper wrappings and carrier bags. All these polythene bags can be recycled through the supermarket carrier bag recycling schemes. Sainsburys even print this fact on their packaging – I saw it on their grapes the other day.

If you don’t live near a supermarket (!) with a recycling scheme, then you can send the bags to this company who run a recycling scheme.

The house made from plastic rubbish

This guy is definatly part of the solution……………….do check it out

This is my ecoHouse… which I Build DIY at 10,000 USD.
cheers.
- Using recycled rice hull plastic material.
- 100% non toxic
- 100% Green.
- 100% made from waste material
- with International Eco Label.
- 0 trees are chopped. 0% timber
- 100% DIY, in 10 days, build like LEGO
- Which can be KNOCK DOWN. THROW THE BUILDING MATERIAL INTO THE MELTING POT AND RECYCLED…. UP TO 20 TIMES.
Do you to find out more on this Recycling?
Check out this blog Part 2/10
http://www.squidoo.com/HousemadeofRubbish

http://www.squidoo.com/10000USDhouse#module10051074

 

 Want to cut down on your plastic rubbish? – you can find other plastic free products with the >>>A-Z<<< plastic free index

But what to do with all those plastic milk bottles

recycled plastic

Originally uploaded by Joey 7

Found this on Flickr and thought it was fantastic
I made this lampshade from 20 plastic 2 litre milk bottles, can you tell? All I did was wash them out, cut off the bottom and top/handle part, leaving a piece of plastic which I then flattened with an iron (protected iron with a piece of baking parchment on top of the plastic). Then cut out an identical shape from each piece as described and illustrated on the site below, and fitted them together. So all it cost me was the time to make it. I got the instructions from Instructables (goodness, I love that site!) here if you’re interested:

It’s made from 2 litre milk bottles, can you tell? So all it cost me was the time to make it. I got the instructions from this site here if you’re interested:

www.instructables.com/id/Universal-lamp-shade -polygon-bui…

Uploaded by Joey 7 on 17 Jan 09, 1.20PM PST.

Recycling Icelandic beach trash

Icelandic beach trash Originally uploaded by futureatlas.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

Last year I was fulminating about plastic coat hangers – well only yestrday I was ambling round Tesco when I took a detour into the clothes section. there I saw a coat hanger recycling box. For plastic ones of course

I also happened to notice lurking behind the counter in BHS a cardboard box labelled coat hanger recycling.

You could of course offer them to your local charity shop or freecycle them

Want to cut down on your plastic rubbish? – you can find other plastic free products with the >>>A-Z<<< plastic free index

Disposing of polystyrene

As with all plastic polystyrene does not biodegrade. Instead it hangs around for years creating everlasting litter and problomatic pollution.

the boffs are working on the problem and here are their solutions

Recycling

Polystyrene is difficult to recycle. Difficult but not impossible …

For those of you who insist on using plastic cups there is  the  save a cup recycling system

For the other stuff there is a  process for recycling  polystyrene that uses  the styromelt system.

The Rest

Polystyrene that ends up as litter has to be picked up – by the council – you pay the cost or by decent folk who care about the environmnet.

The photo is  Snowballs that never melt  Originally uploaded by Ted Raynor

To see some really nasty beach pollution click on the image for pictures of his  beach clean up

Crafty plastic

Made from plastic debris washed up on Kent beaches – made by fantastic artists Stuart Haygarth – for more visit his website

 

Want to make one of your own? The best beaches for plastic pollution can be found here

Found out about this guy through a post that features all kinds of interesting things to do with plastic rubbish – have a look

Recycling plastic

Plastic recycling – hows it done – click here to see 

Turning plastic rubbish into picnic benches and all manner of other uses for  recycled plastic lumber

Recycling plastic into funky boards to be used for all manner of things – to see the yogurt pot coffee table click here

Knitting with plastic bags

Ok maybe a whole be bop ensemble might be rather daunting but there are other things you can knit from plastic bags

Knit a new bag out of old plastic bags

Or some sandals

Or set up a cottage industry weaving plastic rubbish into joyful new “fabric”

fifties-style knitted grocery bag dress

fifties-style knitted grocery bag dress

Originally uploaded by david_demchuk

Says maker Cathy Kasdan of Cleveland, Ohio: The dress is all hand knit from grocery bags that were the result of actual trips to the grocery store. As soon as I told people I could use their old bags for a project they brought them in by the bag full, I received thousands!

The plastic grocery bag came about in the 1950’s along with futuristic optimisim about America, so I made a “typical” 1950’s ensemble complete with pillbox hat and purse, not pictured. I am going to have my pieces in an art show on recycled art at the School of Art Gallery in downtown Kent along with a group of other people beginning April 19th.

Crafty Plastic

Dont get me wrong – plastic recycling is good but these guys are my kind of people – they dont throw plastic rubbish away as the bad people do, but they dont recycle it either. No they cut out the middle man and  reuse plastic rubbish  to make other wonderful and useful things

The Fusers - they fuse together sevral flimsy plastic bags together to create one strong sheet that can then be sewn into all manner of things

The knitters knit their old plastic bags up into all sorts of fantastic things

The Squirel Bafflers fool those furry bird seed stealers with this cunning foil

The junk boaters – sail round the world on a boat made from plastic bottles

In the building trade plastic bottles and candy wrappers have been used to make bricks