Rethink Hanger uses plastic bottles to hang clothes. Imagine cutting down on plastic entering the waste stream and at the same time making something useful for yourself. This contraption allows you to screw two bottles into a plastic hook creating an item thatis in need.

The unit will cost 8 dollars per hanger, which is quite a nut to crack when you consider trying to fill a closet. Also you need to consider the extra room the bottles would take up over the dread wire hangers. If there was some way to melt or flatten them slightly this would be a fantastic idea.

h/t SlipperBrick

 Its time again for yet another raft of stories from the coffers of the Caffination news bin. As before these gems where to good to leave on the cutting room floor, but unfortunately we couldn’t get them into the mix for the show. Lots of news happening right now. Its hard to stay anywhere near the top of the pile.

In today’s Grab bag you’ll find politics, copyright, copywrong, Plastic bottles, Vases, Tools, and Luddites

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