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- Glowing labyrinth made from plastic waste pops up in Buenos Aires Sat, 23 Jun 18, 8:30amOver 15,000 plastic bottles were temporarily given a new lease on life as a glowing labyrinth in Vatican Square, one of Buenos Aires’ most celebrated public spaces...
- Cameroon student nonprofit recycles plastic bottles into boats Thu, 10 Aug 17, 11:50pmHumanity has a plastic bottle addiction, purchasing one million a minute, and many bottles wind up not in recycling bins but in our oceans. Cameroon-based nonprofit Madiba & Nature is pioneering a creative use for all...
- The world's population buys one million plastic bottles every single minute Tue, 4 Jul 17, 2:00amWe're drowning in plastic bottles. New statistics released by The Guardian reveal that humans purchase one million plastic bottles every minute - and that adds up to nearly 500 billion bottles a year. While it's true many...
- Global population buys one million plastic bottles every single minute Mon, 3 Jul 17, 8:44pmWe're drowning in plastic bottles. You already know plastic water bottle use - and their disposal or lack thereof - is a worldwide dilemma, but new statistics released by The Guardian reveal just how staggering the issue...
- Extraordinary man builds 25 plastic bottle homes for refugees in Algeria Fri, 19 May 17, 1:12amA Sahrawi refugee in Algeria is rebuilding lives - literally. Born and raised in the refugee camp in Awserd near Tindouf, 27-year-old Tateh Lehbib Breica is constructing disaster resistant homes using discarded plastic bottles...
- DIY: How to Make a Bird Feeder From a Plastic Bottle! Wed, 10 Sep 14, 5:00amThe cooler half of the year is right around the corner (though most of us don't want to admit it!), and all over the northern hemisphere, little feathered friends will be looking for food to help them survive the winter...
- San Francisco’s Bottled Water Ban Set to be Among the Nation’s Strictest Thu, 19 Dec 13, 4:30amPhoto via Shutterstock San Francisco's Board of Supervisors are poised to approve one of the strictest bans on the sale of bottled water in the nation...
- Grand Canyon National Park Plans to Ban the Sale of Plastic Bottles in 2012 Wed, 21 Dec 11, 3:21amKeeping our national parks beautiful should be a nation-wide effort, and the Grand Canyon National Park is hoping to take a step in the new year that would make that easier for everyone by banning the sale of plastic bottles...
- Oil Fence Made from Recycled Plastic Bottles Thu, 19 Aug 10, 6:15amYankoDesign pointed us to a pretty smart (and timely) way to reuse plastic bottles to clean up oil spills. Designed by Min A Namgung, it’s basically a series of rubber caps that screw onto the tops and bottoms of PET...
- Refresh With Karim Rashid’s “Bobble” Water Bottle Mon, 19 Jul 10, 5:00amSave some cash and the environment with this portable water bottle that comes complete with filter! Designed by Karim Rashid, this this colorful and stylish Bobble water bottle has a built-in water filter that allows you...
- Karim Rashid’s “Bobble” Bottle Provides Clean H2O on the Go! Fri, 16 Jul 10, 3:15amHow many times have you found yourself out on the streets with no water and a mouth as parched as the Sahara? Desperate times may call for desperate measures (buying – gasp! – bottled water), but if you had this...
- Karim Rashid’s Ingenious “Bobble” Bottle Gives You Clean H2O on the Go! Fri, 16 Jul 10, 3:15amHow many times have you found yourself out on the streets with no water and a mouth as parched as the Sahara? Desperate times may call for desperate measures (buying – gasp! – bottled water), but if you had this...
- Tweet to Win A Karim Rashid Designed Water-Filtering Bobble Bottle! Wed, 31 Mar 10, 6:24amTweet to win a beautiful, water-filtering bobble water bottle! If you missed last week’s contest to win a Karim Rashid-designed reusable bobble bottle, today is your lucky day because we’re giving away 10 more!...
- Win A Karim-Rashid Designed, Water-Filtering Bobble Bottle! Wed, 24 Mar 10, 1:14amWin a beautiful, water-filtering Bobble water bottle! We’re huge fans of design mastermind Karim Rashid’s colorful, reusable Bobble bottles that filter your water on the go, so we’re excited to announce...
- Karim Rashid Unveils Water-Filtering “Bobble” Bottle Sat, 13 Mar 10, 7:15amKarim Rashid has done it again. Here at Inhabitat we’re pretty much glued to our reusable water bottles, so we got a little giddy when we saw the Bobble, a water filtering bottle that sells for just $9.95. On top of...