Take Your Top off! from Glenda Duarte on Vimeo. Music by The Donnas ‘ Take your top off ‘ video is part of the campaign produced during the MA Graphic Design project about recycling your plastic bottle tops and creating awareness about keeping the oceans clean. Did you know that plastic tops can not be recycled together with [...] […]

How many plastic tops do you see? Video by Chris Jordan Picture by Chris Jordan ‘These photographs of albatross chicks were made just a few weeks ago on Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific. The nesting babies are fed bellies-full of plastic by their parents, who soar out [...] […]

In the UK, straightforward recycling caps companies that I could find are: GHS Recycling Ltd Green Ant Plastic Recycling Even so, some companies will only collect and recycle plastic tops from milk jugs (plastic type number 2 HDPE), while others will require 1 tonne (1000 Kgs) for free collections scheduled to coincide with other collections of bottle [ […]

Stickers The be able to visually communicate the ‘take your top off’ message I made an intervention that involved place a number of small, medium and large sized stickers mostly on plastic drink bottles but also in recycling and non recycling bins, vending machines and on other food related products that had similar plastic tops. That [...] […]

Plastic Tops are the new Butts! Plastic bottle tops are quickly eclipsing cigarette butts as the number one item found on the world’s beaches. The biggest concern right now is that many people have no idea what happens to plastic bottle tops, not even knowing that there is a problem at all. During my project research about why [...] […]