Method Uses Ocean Plastic for Structural Packaging

Method has produced the first structural packaging made from plastic salvaged from ocean debris. The dish and hand soap bottle, which is a limited edition for Whole Foods, is intended to demonstrate that using recycled plastic is "the most viable solution to our plastic pollution problem".  The plastic was collected by from the beaches of Hawaii and recycled into high quality plastic similar to HDPE. The grey color is the recycled plastic's natural state.

Method partnered with Envision Plastics to develop a new recycling process to make the bottles. The process allows rigid, opaque plastics recovered from the ocean to be cleaned, blended and then remanufactured into high-quality recycled plastic of the same quality as virgin high-density polyethylene (HDPE) plastic

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Rethinking Structural Packaging and the Product Within

The big idea? Move past the current cheap disposable bottle (and mindset) toward a new paradigm of utility. The goal is to design bottles that are truly reusable. An added benefit of his design is that the bottles are designed for consumer mixing, they’re shipped sans the 99% water that fills most cleaner bottles. Instead, they feature an innovative reservoir that--much like a bar shot dispenser--can shoot pre-measured concentrate into the bottle for consumers to mix with their own tap water.

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