good citizens: Recycling plastic bottles into sunglasses

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One 600ml single-use plastic bottle = one frame exactly. 100% recycled. 100% recyclable. - Over 500 billion single-use bottles are made every year. Very few are recycled. Many of the remaining go to landfill or the ocean. We asked ourselves, "Why can’t we take a used plastic soft drink bottle and do something good with it?" Our mission is to untrash the planet. We are committed to using only 100% recycled materials in our products. To get to 100% recycled and to prepare for rapid production from day one has taken some serious brainpower.We've engaged many experts ...

Read More , including an industrial design company, to design a pair of sunglasses frames that could be made from one recycled PET bottle.They've had to re-engineer the hinge of the sunglasses so it too can be made from rec

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