The Life of a Plastic Water Bottle | Peter S. Green, Bloomberg – Oct 2, 2012
Solar Lights
Social entrepreneur Illac Diaz hopes to brighten a million Filipino poor with his “solar light bulbs” — water-filled bottles embedded in corrugated roofing. The bottles refract sunlight, lighting the living space below.
Inmates and guards manufacture the "bulbs" in a Manila prison.
PET is easily recycled and shouldn’t be left to pile up in dumps and on the ocean floor, says Paul Gardner, executive director of Recycling Reinvented, a group promoting profitable recycling programs that’s partially funded by Nestle.
