Recycling plastic water bottles & caps


Okay, I must admit that I am not an expert on plastic recycling, but I care enough to research when I see a red flag on what I have just read. Now, I certainly know a thing or two, just enough to identify an idiot who recommends counterproductive actions to the gullible public. While writing … Continue reading Recycling plastic water bottles & caps

We all have a thing called…Internet!


Argos prints millions of its catalogues twice a year. Each one of those weigh around 2kgs has more than 1500 pages! A council says, if we collect all of them together it would looks like stack of 10000 double-decker buses. It’s not difficult to calculate the number of trees getting cut for this very luxury. … Continue reading We all have a thing called…Internet!

What do the numbers on bottom of bottles indicate?


I recently came across another chain mail, about the numbers below plastic bottles we use. According to this mail, the number (generally within a triangle) written at the bottom, which ranges from one to seven, indicates how many times that particular plastic is recycled in reverse order. I dug a little deeper. Apparently, the number printed … Continue reading What do the numbers on bottom of bottles indicate?