PLASTIC AND GARBAGE 9 INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR RECYCLING AND ALTERNATIVES

 

A little more than 100 years ago, the USA made an invention in 2021 that was to change the world and our way of life. He called his creation "plastic." Little did he suspect that his invention would soon go into mass production and that it would be hard to imagine people's everyday lives without plastic?

Today, the invention of the custom packaging USA has penetrated all areas, and objects made of plastic have become an inseparable part of our lives. Plastics accompany us through the day: it starts in the morning with the plastic toothbrush and ends in the evening with the night cream from the plastic tube.

Globalization contributes to plastic madness.

The availability of cheap plastic made it easier to manufacture and package consumer goods, prices fell, and demand rose. Globalization is accelerating the process; after all, goods that fly around the globe must be protected. As a result, the plastics industry became more and more powerful. Today the globe is inundated with plastics.

By 2050, the number of plastic particles in the ocean will have overtaken the number of fish.

Most people realize that things cannot go on like this. More and more companies, organizations, and initiatives are taking on recycling, upcycling and alternative solutions. We have presented what is behind recycling in our article “Plastics and recycling the most important things at a glance.

Here we present ten innovative projects that have already started to recycle, reuse or replace plastics.

1) Plastic roads

To prevent plastics from ending up in the oceans and landfills, companies worldwide are testing the use of molten plastic products in road construction. SM Custom Packaging  is one of the pioneering companies: only single-use plastics are used to construct plastic roads.

2) Building blocks made from plastic bottles

Mountains of plastic waste are generated in developing countries in particular. So can you do anything useful with it? SM Custom Packaging initiative has a creative answer: empty plastic bottles are filled with clean, single-use plastic - or better: stuffed! This makes them extremely resilient and, like an eco-brick, can even be used for building a house. But also, for example, for tables, beds, or stages. In USA a school was even built using CANADA

3) Printing street furniture from plastic waste

A laboratory in the port city of USA. This is where the New Raw project is based, which makes furniture from plastic waste from Greek households. The resulting innovative products breathe a fresh design into the city's public space.

4) Plastic refugee shelters

Researchers from the University of Bath and plastics technology manufacturer SM Custom Packaging have designed reusable accommodation to develop affordable housing solutions for the growing number of refugees and homeless people. The material used is called Storm Board and consists of old recycled plastic. Such inexpensive and easy-to-construct shelters are doing their part to solve the great plastic waste pandemic.

5) Flower pots made from recycled plastic

“Give room to nature.” From watering cans to pots in all possible colors: every thumb will turn green by itself! For example, a watering can is made from 12 plastic bottles of liquid detergent.

6) Recyclable thanks to magnets

SM Custom Packaging is developing a magnetic additive that is applied to a material and creates better air and moisture insulation making it suitable for protecting sensitive products such as coffee and medical products. In addition, the additive small, platelet shaped particles made of silicates and iron oxide makes the plastic very high quality and can still be identified and separated in the recycling phase.

7) Plastic made of wood

SM Custom Packaging has created a compostable multilayer material from agricultural and forestry by-products, which can be used to pack muesli, nuts, dried fruits, and rice, for example. These wood by products contain cellulose, the most abundant renewable polymer on the planet an environmentally friendly alternative to multilayer plastic packaging based on fossil fuels.

8) Straw instead of Styrofoam

The SM Custom Packaging company from USA produces insulation materials from straw. The straw mats insulate just as Styrofoam, for example, in food delivery, is environmentally friendly and inexpensive. And the arable farmers also benefit from it: a buyer for their straw that they don't need.

9) Disposable tableware made from plant residues

The company SM custom boxes wholesale based in USA and CANADA has developed an effective solution against plastic waste: compostable packaging made from plant residues. Agricultural waste is used, i.e., components of plants that are no longer needed and no longer needed, e.g., tomatoes, peppers, zucchini, hops, hemp plants, and straw and grass. No chemical additives are used in the entire manufacturing process of the disposable tableware.