Plastic bottle of juice or water that you just spent, it would one day be "reincarnated" into a tennis ball, and even sweaters. Many items you normally wear every day it is made using recycled materials, such as toothbrushes and carpets.
Five thrift is getting a second life as a new product, such as tennis balls and vehicle fuel.
1. Furniture from the aircraft
In the hands senirnan Dinovan Fell III, antique military aircraft that had not airworthy regain its glory as a statue of aerodynamic and metallic furniture, like tables, cabinets, and beds. Airframe taken from landfills is generally derived from military aircraft, such as the bomber B-25 and DC-9. If Fell is not inspired to mengalihfungsikan old airframe as furniture artistic merit, the planes will end up in the furnace, melted down into scrap metal.
2. Tennis balls from plastic milk bottles
Drink bottles and milk sold in the United States are generally made of plastic type 1, which consists of polyethylene terephthalate, or PET. When the plastic bottles it up to the recycling center, they will be sorted by type and color, then cut into pieces. These plastic sheets will be cleaned, melted down, and rolled into long thin threads when the material hardened and dried. Plastic fiber yarn can be used to make various products, ranging fibers on the tennis ball up to the fiber material for clothing and blankets.
3. Toothbrush from yogurt cups
Plastic packaging containers of yogurt can now be converted into a toothbrush. Stalk Toothbrush Preserve toothbrush is made entirely made of recycled yogurt cups. Of course, keep the brush fibers are made of new plastic.
Old toothbrush can be sent back to the company for recycling, the Company established in 1997 it worked with a company that would destroy an old toothbrush and turn it into pieces that will be used on newly plastic picnic tables, lawn chairs, and the boardwalk path.
4. Gym carpet made from old running shoes
Since 1993, a sports shoe company Nike has collected used shoes as part of a recycling program "Reuse-A-Shoes." Various brands of athletic shoes that were collected were milled and purified from other materials into a material called Nike Grind.
This material is later used to create various exercise mat surface, began running track and tennis courts until the children's playground and field turf.
5. Fuels from energy drinks
After a number of states of the United States prohibiting the circulation of alcoholic energy drinks Four Loko and pulled from store shelves, a company responsible for recycling the oil into fuel ethanol decided to take advantage of the forbidden drink into something useful.
MXI Enterprises in Abingdon, Virginia, bought all the drinks Four Loko who want it destroyed. Entirely brought into the facility's processing plant to distill alcohol from those caffeinated beverages. Alcohol is then sold to be mixed into fuels. MXI also separates and recycles the water content of the drink. *** [LIVESCIENCE | PRESERVE | KORAN TEMPO 3616]
In the hands senirnan Dinovan Fell III, antique military aircraft that had not airworthy regain its glory as a statue of aerodynamic and metallic furniture, like tables, cabinets, and beds. Airframe taken from landfills is generally derived from military aircraft, such as the bomber B-25 and DC-9. If Fell is not inspired to mengalihfungsikan old airframe as furniture artistic merit, the planes will end up in the furnace, melted down into scrap metal.
2. Tennis balls from plastic milk bottles
Drink bottles and milk sold in the United States are generally made of plastic type 1, which consists of polyethylene terephthalate, or PET. When the plastic bottles it up to the recycling center, they will be sorted by type and color, then cut into pieces. These plastic sheets will be cleaned, melted down, and rolled into long thin threads when the material hardened and dried. Plastic fiber yarn can be used to make various products, ranging fibers on the tennis ball up to the fiber material for clothing and blankets.
3. Toothbrush from yogurt cups
Plastic packaging containers of yogurt can now be converted into a toothbrush. Stalk Toothbrush Preserve toothbrush is made entirely made of recycled yogurt cups. Of course, keep the brush fibers are made of new plastic.
Old toothbrush can be sent back to the company for recycling, the Company established in 1997 it worked with a company that would destroy an old toothbrush and turn it into pieces that will be used on newly plastic picnic tables, lawn chairs, and the boardwalk path.
4. Gym carpet made from old running shoes
Since 1993, a sports shoe company Nike has collected used shoes as part of a recycling program "Reuse-A-Shoes." Various brands of athletic shoes that were collected were milled and purified from other materials into a material called Nike Grind.
This material is later used to create various exercise mat surface, began running track and tennis courts until the children's playground and field turf.
5. Fuels from energy drinks
After a number of states of the United States prohibiting the circulation of alcoholic energy drinks Four Loko and pulled from store shelves, a company responsible for recycling the oil into fuel ethanol decided to take advantage of the forbidden drink into something useful.
MXI Enterprises in Abingdon, Virginia, bought all the drinks Four Loko who want it destroyed. Entirely brought into the facility's processing plant to distill alcohol from those caffeinated beverages. Alcohol is then sold to be mixed into fuels. MXI also separates and recycles the water content of the drink. *** [LIVESCIENCE | PRESERVE | KORAN TEMPO 3616]
