Upcyling Soda Bottles: Just Forget It. In the highly ideal world of tomorrow, we’ll have forgotten all about soda bottles.
Oh, we’ll remember they used to exist and what they were for. We’ll know we made and discarded an incredible amount of them. We’ll have finally weaned ourselves off the bottle, so much so that we won’t recognise the name – even though they’re still very much around. “Soda bottles”? Oh, what they make lampshades from? Crie seu blog gratuito. Rethink « noquedanblogs.com. Earth Resource Foundation. What is it?
Polystyrene is a petroleum-based plastic made from the styrene monomer. Most people know it under the name Styrofoam, which is actually the trade name of a polystyrene foam product used for housing insulation. Polystyrene is a light-weight material, about 95% air, with very good insulation properties and is used in all types of products from cups that keep your beverages hot or cold to packaging material that keep your computers safe during shipping. Why not use it? The biggest environmental health concern associated with polystyrene is the danger associated with Styrene, the basic building block of polystyrene.