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Lamps brighten our nights in our homes and businesses.  Everyone uses them but what distinguishes one lamp from the other is the lamp shade.  The design, texture and materials bring ambiance to the room and reflect the likes and values of the rooms’ owner.

This lamp shade is no different. It is made out of plastic. Not just any kind of plastic though. It is made out of 30 Coke-Cola bottles that create a beautiful lamp shade. It reflects the designers value to help the earth  by not putting the bottles into the trash or to recycle them but to REUSE a bottle that has already been made, used and discarded. TheRecycled Water-Bottle Lampshade by Sarah Turner was the grand prize winner Readers Choice Inhabitat Spring Greening Competition in 2010.

Sarah Turners’ beautiful ReDesignlighting collection  imaginatively recycles plastic water bottles into stunning lampshades, table and floor lamps.

Sarah Turner is an award winning eco artist & designer that makes beautiful products from waste materials. Upon learning that the United Kingdom only recycled 5.5% plastic waste drinks bottle  Sara Turner  wanted to something creative with them and overall save a few bottles from the landfill sites. 

This is just one way to reuse plastic instead of putting it in to the recycle bin. Please share any ideas you have for reusing plastic bottles. 

Recycling is great but Reusing is even better!

Welcome to Plastic Planet Prevention!

I have been interested in protecting our earth for most of my life. I was surfing the internet when I had a life changing moment: I watched a bird eat a plastic bag thinking it was food.I am starting this blog to share what I have learned about plastic. Plastic is a material that has many great uses. What makes plastic dirty is that people do not dispose of plastic properly.

This has cause harm to our planet and its inhabitants. This blog is to share ways to prevent plastic pollution, to reuse plastics and alternatives to using plastic.

This is a photo from Current.com by El Break shows what can be found in a stomach.

This has made me want to prevent plastic pollution. I hope you will join me in this fight to prevent plastic pollution to the inhabitants of our planet.