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Bottle TopsUpdated 9 Jan 2011 This project is kinda inspired by http://www.365daysoftrash.blogspot.com/ On the 1st Jan 2008 I started throwing bottle tops into a bag. Whenever we finish a bottle of milk or whatever, we wash it, throw the bottle into the recycling bin and its top goes into the bag. [Factoid: 1L milk creates 1kg of CO2] I half suspect this is a trivial/silly exercise, but anyway here's the tally so far:
I didn't keep corks from wine bottles - there weren't many. And I didn't remember to keep all the metal bottle caps. Apart from those exceptions this is a pretty good record of the number of bottles (mostly plastic) thrown out in our recycling bin. This is for two adults and a small child. It includes bottles brought in by friends that were discarded here. We keep a few bottles (and their tops) for reuse, so they're not counted here. I'd guess they would total less than 30 bottles reused for 2008. |
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