[GreenYes] Re: Buildings & cisterns made with PET bottles & tire rims

["Pat Franklin" <pfranklin@no.address>]

Actually Keith, we're not doing much better here in the USofA.....we're only
recycling slightly more than 1 out of 5 PET bottles and only a fraction of
those bottles end up as new bottles.
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  From: GreenYes@no.address [mailto:GreenYes@no.address]On
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  Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 1:18 PM
  To: pfranklin@no.address; GreenYes@no.address
  Cc: manuel_cerrato@no.address
  Subject: [GreenYes] Re: Buildings & cisterns made with PET bottles & tire
rims


  In point of fact, the PET bottles are not being recycled into tire rims.
PET bottles plus tire rims are both being used as construction materials.



  And Pat, yeah, it would be nice, but we?re talking about a very poor
country like Honduras with almost no formal recycling experience to speak of
(wastepickers conducting recycling on small scale, yes, and maybe a small
ecoclub here or there, but more than that?), where you won?t be seeing
bottle-to-bottle recycling for a while yet.  This is not the US we?re
talking about.



  Have to start somewhere.



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  From: GreenYes@no.address [mailto:GreenYes@no.address] On
Behalf Of Pat Franklin
  Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 1:05 PM
  To: Keith Ripley; GreenYes@no.address
  Cc: manuel_cerrato@no.address
  Subject: [GreenYes] Re: Buildings & cisterns made with PET bottles & tire
rims



  My 2-cents.....It's great that scrap PET bottles are being recycled into
cisterns and tire rims in Central America.  That's certainly better than
ending up in a landfill, but isn't it too bad that they're not being
recycled into new bottles!



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  Patricia Franklin
  Executive Director
  Container Recycling Institute
  Tel.(202) 263-0999   Fax: (202) 263-0949
  www.container-recycling.org and  www.bottlebill.org




    -----Original Message-----
    From: GreenYes@no.address [mailto:GreenYes@no.address]On
Behalf Of Keith Ripley
    Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 12:09 PM
    To: GreenYes@no.address
    Subject: [GreenYes] Buildings & cisterns made with PET bottles & tire
rims

    Greenyesers might find interesting the experiments underway in Central
America ? and soon Colombia as well ? in constructing cheap but attractive
and durable homes, buildings, cisterns, kiosks and bus stops with scrap PET
soda bottles and end-of-life vehicle tire rims, which I write about in my
latest blog entry:



    http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/?p=94



    It?s fascinating and innovative work to utilize wasted materials in
constructing facilities that benefit primarily poor and marginal
communities.  The work was recently recognized by the Central American
Commission on Environment and Development (CCAD) with an environmental
innovation award.



    In an upcoming entry I?ll be looking at Argentine efforts to used
recycled materials (paper, plastic) to build housing for the poor there.



    Best Regards,

    Keith



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    Keith E. Ripley

    Temas Actuales LLC

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    http://www.temasactuales.com

    El Equipo Verde



    Author of the book "Solid Wastes and Recycling Policy in Latin America &
the Caribbean"

    http://www.temasactuales.com/temas_in_print/index_wastebookpromo.php



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