Recycling is an issue we really care about in Hippyshopper offices, especially the recycling of plastic bottles – a topic we’ve written on previously.


When working in central London it’s far too easy to pick up a bottle of water or fizzy drink than attempting to drink the rather dubious tap water. And until bottles are 100% biodegradable we will continue to have a slight sense of guilt when picking up yet another bottle.
In modern society – with plastic bottled drinks having become such a commodity – it is difficult to really see how things will become better very soon…
To emphasize the growing issue bottle wastage, a giant plastic bottle family recently visited the capital. The 10ft sculpture, created by artist Bamber Hawes, is made out of 827 plastic bottles – the number of bottles the average family consumes each year.
The horrible truth is that only 100 of every 500 plastic bottles used in the UK are being recycled at present. So out of the 13 billion plastic bottles consumed only a meagre 20% reach a recycling plant to get a second lease of life.
New research by SodaStream also reveals that Brits hugely underestimate the amount of bottle waste they generate; with almost half of all adults believing their families use between 1-5 bottles a week when the actual figures is double that.
Perhaps the fact that ONE PET bottle takes around 450 years to break down will make you think twice about picking up unnecessary drinks from the shop in your lunch break…
(Source: www.hippyshopper.com )