Nike Reuse A Shoe Scheme

Here’s a idea

Nike Reuse A Shoe Scheme

You take your stinky old trainers to one of the drop off locations, they are collected up and shredded. They can then be incorporated into running tracks, basketball and tennis courts,  playgrounds and synthetic turf fields.

Whether you think we should be building plastic playing surfaces is another issue. However, if we are going to build them this, reduces the amounts of virgin materials used.

It also keeps thousands of shoes out of  the waste disposal system

You can find drop of locations using the map on the website or search for your nearest location here.

To find out how to recycle plastic (and other interesting ways to deal with dead plastic), go to the Quick guide to recycled plastic

And check out my PINTEREST board for more funky ideas.

Though of course its best to refuse plastic and so reduce the need to recycle.

You can find loads of plastic free products here in my big the >>>A-Z<<<  index

Plastic trash for concrete blocks

On the whole I don’t approve of plastic recycling. Talk of recycling makes us feel good about our rubbish and diverts attention away from the real issue of our ever growing pile of plastic trash. However that said, there are some plastic recycling projects that make you go OOohh.

By mixing together ground-up plastic with cement and soil reclaimed from the brownfields, Miller was able to create a material just as strong as conventional concrete.

Read more: Plastic Concrete: Building Bricks Made From Landfill Waste | Inhabitat – Green Design Will Save the World

 

Find more hot plastic recycling schemes here

Read more about the plastic recycling myth over here Flotsam Diaries

Want to cut down on more of your plastic rubbish? – find plastic free products with the A-Z plastic free index

 

Plastic Cars Are Go

Don’t throw those sweet wrappers away you may need them to run your car.  Heres a plant in India thats transforming plastic into motorbike fuel   
  They say of the process that it “converts all sorts of waste plastic into fuel oil, petroleum gas and solid petroleum coke. It can work with all kinds of plastic waste, and doesn’t need the waste to be cleaned first. A fractional residue containing metals is the only possibly harmful by-product.” taken from wringing-fuel-from-plastic
 China too are up to it see here   

And the yanks too

See it happen before your very eyes with this YouTube vid

Talking of which .. I got this comment to one of my posts

 If there is anybody who seriously wants an eco-friendly disposal system for used plastics, please contact me for this existing zero percent emission process technology that converts plastics into EN590 Diesel – ready for use in vehicles and other uses such as power generation.

  Contact:  Mr. Anvi Arcilla  

 E-Mail: anvi@greenerpowersolutions.com  Image Toy Plastic Racing Car  originally uploaded by bennyinkwell

bottles you can recycle as a house

 

Use those old plastic bottles (and some sand)  to build a house 

Or these recycled specially designed bottle bricks

 
If only all plastic bottles could be this useful.

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

How to re-use plastic

Once your vile fizzy drink has been drunk then what to do with the plastic bottle? Landfill? Incinerate?

This post deals with the more productive ways to deal with our plastic waste.

Recycling

Here plastic trash is remade into a new product. To find out how, visit the recycling plastic page

Reused

This is when the original product is reused in a different way, but on a large scale. Like shredding trainers down into playing field surfacing.

Yes, really!

You can find some great ideas over here at You made what out of plastic trash?

Recrafted

Same as above but can be done by you at home or by artists in garrets. Have a look at what these talented folk have done over in the arty crafty part of this blog

Check out my PINTEREST board for more funky ideas. The people over there are so clever aren’t they?

Boycott Plastic

Recycling is only part of the answer – a small part. Our favourite solution is to REFUSE plastics. Check these plastic-free products. Use them then compost them.

Boat made from plastic bottles

This is not the junk raft but a working boat built from beach flotsam including all those plastic bottles

blogged  from Flickr

Recycled plastic bottle boat

Originally uploaded by lilacwhispers