http://www.triplepundit.com/2008/10/recycle-your-water-bottles-on-your-laptop/ Business, Better. Since 2005 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:33:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.triplepundit.com/2008/10/recycle-your-water-bottles-on-your-laptop/comment-page-1/#comment-9916 JenBoynton Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:11:02 +0000 http://www.triplepundit.com/wordpress/2008/10/recycle-your-water-bottles-on-your-laptop/#comment-9916 You forgot the most important thing: these bags are totally cute! (I have the one in the picture). One interesting caveat that I've been trying to wrap my head around with these products made of re-purposed plastic bottles was raised in Cradle to Cradle. William McDonough argues that this isn't an ideal material use because the plastic was never designed to be in such close quarters with human skin, especially in teeny tiny filaments. He argues that there are unknown health repercussions from having this stuff on your skin and breathing it in, and that the preferable cradle to cradle model would be to use materials that were safe for human use, and also biodegradable. (i.e. just do away with plastic bottles so we don't have to deal with re-using them). Me, I think these bags are a pretty neat, albeit temporary, solution to our plastic problem. You forgot the most important thing: these bags are totally cute! (I have the one in the picture).
One interesting caveat that I’ve been trying to wrap my head around with these products made of re-purposed plastic bottles was raised in Cradle to Cradle. William McDonough argues that this isn’t an ideal material use because the plastic was never designed to be in such close quarters with human skin, especially in teeny tiny filaments. He argues that there are unknown health repercussions from having this stuff on your skin and breathing it in, and that the preferable cradle to cradle model would be to use materials that were safe for human use, and also biodegradable. (i.e. just do away with plastic bottles so we don’t have to deal with re-using them). Me, I think these bags are a pretty neat, albeit temporary, solution to our plastic problem.

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