As a team put our heads together and come up with a viable use for Bottle caps for The TerraCycle Bottle Cap Contest

I had this van that had a smashed in tailgate. Over the last 4 months, the rainy warm weather soaked into the carpet of the interior of the dead van. The box of bottle caps that I had saved with the intention of invention, fell apart. A friend called the car salvaging company and they took the van away, with a big pile of bottle caps “hidden” cleverly behind the back seat. So I’m hoping that when they smash and melt the car chassie, caps will be melted as well. Whatdaya think?

Coke was sponsoring the beach cleanup today so I told several people about my idea for a kid friendly cap sorting station with a hand grinder. Maybe someone will absorb it and make it happen.

Saw a story online today that explains why they make us take the caps off the bottles. It seems like the issues is safety for the workers at the recycling centers. But they are recycleable.
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=recycling-plastic-bottle-caps&sc=DD_20080828

Here we go! http://www.artgrange.com/LittleBottlecap.html If these are coolenough, at least a few bottle caps could end up in art projects that stay for years as fridge art. My friend was telling me that she has a construction paper teddy bear that her 32 year old daughter did in Kindergarden still hanging in her kitchen.

Good ideas in this article about recycling stuff. I didn’t realize so many places were set up already. Now if we can figure out CFL’s in Hawaii. http://www.emagazine.com//view/?3172

I’m collecting them. I put out boxes to collect them at 2 places where people recycle. Also, the school where I work is collecting them on recycling saturdays, so they keep giving me bags of them. I have no idea what I’m going to end up doing with them, but no bird will be eating them.

I ran into this photo on a website today and so I looked at the original site. http://www.algalita.org/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=111 There are other photos that show how all this plastic sorts out. Its very sad.

I went to the recycling center yesterday and sent a bunch more of these lids to the landfill. Maybe we can just collect them with no known purpose for now?

I shared a link to this site with the art teacher at the school that I work with. Maybe he’ll come up with something. Promoting the concept would probably be really helpful.

Are they usable as packing material? They seem really stronger than bubble wrap.

Apparently you can grind them up and reuse them in injection molders.