The Feasibility of Plastic Bottles as Chair

The Use of Plastic Bottles as Chair Introduction Pollution has always been one of the main reasons of the challenges we are currently facing today. With the way man interacts with what he possess can either be a gift or a bane to the society. By trying to harness the possibilities of producing something beneficial with the problems man caused to his environment will be a big help in reducing the contamination one has done. If we try to make something usable from this thing we call trash we can help reduce the problems we are causing to the environment. Trying to create chairs from recycled plastic bottles we are a re sure that can invest a lot in ensuring the future of our environment. Body Plastic plays an essential role in almost all aspect of our life. Plastic is manufactured to support our daily needs in different fields of living. By manufacturing plastic like the plastic bottles we used in drinking it has a huge benefit for us but with this benefit means me ans a risk for the environment. On average we use 168 bottles each per year (Claudio) and for every six water bottles that we use only one makes it to the recycling bin (Fox) (Fox) and by summing up the total usage of everyone in the world 80 % of this plastic bottles aren’t recycled (Gunzelmann). Recycling— Recycling—substituting scrap for virgin materials— materials —not only conserves natural resources and reduces the amount of waste that must be burned or buried, it also reduces pollution and the demand for energy. It makes sense to reuse products, products, of course, and to reduce consumption altogether, as well as to improve initial product design. But given the rising mounds of waste worldwide, it also makes sense to recycle. (Zeller, pars. 5-7) Learning how to create something productive from one which is already useless but has been useful to us in a way is easy, by trying to make a chair from recycled plastic bottles is a way of harnessing the true potential of unused materials.

Plastic Bottle recycled as chairs can be an architectural work that can provide help not just to our society but also to our environment. Conclusion Learning how to make simple things like chairs just by reusing plastic bottles has a huge impact to our environment and society just by trying to cope with the problems of pollution. Mahathma Gandhi once said “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.” Meaning with all that the environment has given us just to satisfy us we must learn not to be greedy and value what we have and don’t assume more. We must learn the values of nature and learn how to pay back our environment with all that it has given us even in simple ways like recycling.

Works Cited Claudio, Luz. “Plastics and the Environment”. SafeBottles. 13 October 2008. Web. 24 November 2013. http://www.safebottles.co.nz/News/Plastics+and+the+Environment.html Fox, Catherine Clarke. “Drinking Water: Bottled or From the Tap?”. National Geographic Kids. Web. November 24 2013. http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/stories/spacescience/water-bottle-pollution/ Gunzelmann, Doug. “Plastic Bottle Facts Make You Think Before You Drink”. Green Upgrader. 23 August 2013. Web. 24 November 2013. http://greenupgrader.com/3258/ Zeller, Tom , Jr. “Recycling: The Big Picture”. National Geographic. January 2008. Web. 24 November 2013. http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/01/high-tech-trash/recyclingtext  Mahatma Gandhi, Volume X: The Last Phase, Part II (Ahmedabad: Navajivan, 1958), page 552