Other stations will be shielded by large, so-called trap bags made of textile strengthened with recycled plastic.
Fixed into holes in a corrugated iron roof, the "bulb" is a recycled plastic bottle that contains bleached water.
But Mr. Valdespino says Secure Wrap's film is made of 30% recycled plastic, and he says the company is working on adding a "biodegradable" feature.
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Work is due to start on Monday to replace nearly two miles of metal fence along Narborough Road South with a new barrier made from recycled plastic.
FieldTurf is looking at new materials: instead of gravel underneath the surface, it might start using recycled plastic tiles, which would be faster and cheaper to install.
The company has been packaging its soaps, detergents and cleaners in post-consumer recycled plastic for years now, something it was told it would never be able to do.
It is a reworking of their popular Muse Two handbag except that this version was handcrafted by the women from Burkina Faso using recycled plastic bags and fair trade cotton.
The technique of weaving recycled plastic bags with cotton was developed by the Gafreh Association with the help of Les Filles de Facteur, a non-profit group that supports women and children.
Next, Method teamed with like-minded Envision Plastics, which created a new recycling process, combining a minimum of 10 percent of ocean plastic with regular curbside recycled plastic to create higher quality bottles.
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This holiday season, the Minneapolis-based consumer electronics giant is offering more than 50 types of gift cards, including one made from recycled plastic and one that doubles as a set of speakers for an MP3 player.
To avoid the risk of contaminants being mixed into the recycled plastic, the new recycling system performs quality control based on a chemical substances risk management database developed by Fujitsu Laboratories, thereby ensuring that notebook PCs and other ICT devices comply with legal requirements for chemical components.
It even made jerseys for nine football teams competing in the World Cup when it was held in South Africa - using polyester recycled from plastic bottles.
The 11 states with bottle bills account for more than 60 percent of the PET plastic recycled in the United States.
The Public Services Department said it expected this would increase by about 20% this year and combined with the trial would see more than 100 extra tonnes of plastic recycled in 2012.
It's made by wrapping plastic from recycled bottles around a polyester fiber and swaddling it all in cotton.
The only plastic objects that can not now be recycled are heavily contaminated items, such as paint pots and plastic products, such as carrier bags, coal sacks, and clear material used to seal food containers.
But what if we could make plastic from a recycled, natural, biodegradable source?
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More than 40 tonnes of household plastic has been recycled through a trial scheme at Guernsey's recycling facility at Longue Hougue.
And according to Reusablebags.com, only 1 percent to 3 percent of plastic bags ever get recycled.
And starting in 2013, plastic will finally be recycled.
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Pack food and other gear in reusable fabric shopping sacks instead of paper or plastic bags, and use recycled paper napkins.
Most of the plastic and metals can be recycled and reused.
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In 2006, the company introduced a hot beverage paper cup with 10% post-consumer recycled fiber and in 2008 it rolled out a new plastic cup that has less of an environmental impact than its original plastic cups.
Standing among bales of crushed plastic bottles and piles of books waiting to be recycled, Lau says that one kilogram of waste paper would have gotten about 18 cents this time last year.
We are surely not meant to be celebrating the fact that the world gets through a massive 230 million tons of plastic in a year, 90 percent of which is not recycled.
Furthermore, compliance with the RoHS directive(1) and REACH regulations(2) regarding the safety of chemicals in ICT products has made it challenging to control the quality of recycled plastics, and until now it has been impossible to reuse recovered plastic in a computer bodies.
The scheme, officially launched in September, allows rigid plastic items, such as buckets, garden furniture and children's toys to be recycled.
He said the government had no plans to introduce a plastic bag tax but was working with supermarkets to make sure more bags were reused or recycled.
The Coca-Cola Company is one of many iconic brands taking part in this global movement with a dedication to identifying products such as plastic bottles and aluminum cans that can be re-purposed for some of these trendy, recycled goods.
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