Here at Organic Monkey we really care about the environment, that's why all of our bottles and jars are manufactured either from recycled glass or post consumer regrind (PCR) raw materials. PCR is a resin that has been previously used in commercial consumer applications such as the manufacturing of mineral water bottles, shampoo bottles etc. Which have then been collected, recycled, cleaned and reused in the manufacture of new bottles and jars. This reduces the depletion of new fossil fuels and helps create a sustainable packaging solution.
This weekend we were tracking the wonderful but eco-tragic adventure of the 31 year old David de Rothschild who made a catamaran out of 12,500 bottles and set off from America to the Pacific.....
Taken from the Observer article this Sunday:
"Rothschild set out on a mammoth ocean crossing aboard his recycled yacht to highlight pollution of Earth's waters....
Plastiki, a revolutionary catamaran, is kept afloat by 12,500 plastic bottles in its hulls; the "eco-adventure" has been designed to draw attention to our systematic pollution and over-fishing of oceans. In the three and a half months since De Rothschild, the refusenik 31-year-old son of the banking dynasty, and his crew of five set out from San Francisco they have discovered many things, but mainly, he says, they have learned about the sea, about its power and about its fragility......"
See full article here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jul/11/plastiki-rothschild-plastic-bottle-catamaran
Track the Plastiki here: http://www.theplastiki.com/
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