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Hanging Flower pots

Hanging Flower pots. By Andrew Montalti, Brendan White, Mustafa, Chuckie Skidmore. Why use plastic?. Plastic in landfills can take over 1,000 years to break down. About 35 Billion bottles are thrown away each year and settle in landfills.

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Hanging Flower pots

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  1. Hanging Flower pots By Andrew Montalti, Brendan White, Mustafa, Chuckie Skidmore

  2. Why use plastic? • Plastic in landfills can take over 1,000 years to break down. • About 35 Billion bottles are thrown away each year and settle in landfills. • Recycling plastic requires 88% less energy than making plastic from raw materials • 90% of the cost of a bottled beverage is from the cost of making the bottle • Only 25% of used bottles are recycled • If Americans recycled 100% of all bottles we would save 1 billion dollars in crude oil costs and reduce the size of future landfills

  3. What goes into making a bottle? • Crude oil is typically used along with other harmful chemicals to make PET (Polyethylene terephthalate) a synthetic substance used to make plastic. • The amount of crude oil it takes to make a bottle is about ¼ the bottles volume • That’s 500 mL for a 2 Liter bottle

  4. Why use wire coat hangers? • Every year the US imports clothes, and about 3.5 billion wire coat hangers • Only 10% end up being recycled • 88 thousand tons per year of coat hangers end up in landfills • Steel is typically used to make the hangers and steel can hold its own weight and more, making it a useful resource.

  5. Dangers of Plastic and Coat Hangers • The need for crude oil in order to make bottles is in and of itself dangerous considering there are threats of oil spills and fossil fuels are limited • The substances used to make bottles can pollute runoff • Steel is a valuable resource that shouldn’t be wasted, and it doesn’t usually degrade • Bottles often end up in the ocean, and marine life may ingest them leading to harmful effects • Seeing bottles in nature isn't exactly aesthetically pleasing

  6. The Product • We used: • 2 liter soda bottles • A wire coat hanger • Marigold Seeds • Dirt • It can be used as an indoor or outdoor flower pot • It would cost about $12.00 • After materials are gathered it costs under a dollar to make, and takes about 10 minutes to make alone, and well under 10 with more people

  7. The product could be purchased at our website: www.drinkstopots.com • A customer could reduce the cost of the product by sending in the following items: • 1 Two liter bottle=25 cents off • 1 wire coat hanger=20 cents off • Both twine and soil would be bought through a local wholesale retailer

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