How to Meet the Need

Window Farms, another use. With some adaptation, other bottles could be used.

Since "necessity is the mother of invention" people just have to realize they "NEED" to create a better method rather than use the old "if it works, why mess with it" routine to be lazy.

In India they have the honey bee network to try to harvest the great little ideas and promote some of the better ones. There is a really cool ted talk about it. There is also a blog called africagadget where the guy goes around Africa showing their alternative solutions to problems. Again, some very good ideas that would never see the light of day in the west. (Consumerism debilitates the consumer and creates a mindset that prevents the use of their skill set.) Even if they do break down in a fit of do it yourself, carpet bombing with advertising leaves no room for the little ideas to spread.

1. I believe that plastic drinks bottles are made of PET.... possibly British ICI's child, so they have a moral obligation, surely? B.P.?-- who knows.

2. As someone that deals with such litter on a truly grand scale, then it is more than just a detail for civilisation to address.

3. I believe that salt water pumps use components that are said to be resistant to nasty salt water....a selling point... see current Clarke/U.K. Machinemart stuff.

Since two thirds of the planet that we still live on is seawater, then over to Captain Pugwash, and also to Seaman Staines?

S.

p.s. In my travels, I have seen the idea that much immorally wasteful plastic comes from Gas, not Oil, so what of the silly old "Dash For Gas" power stations in Britain etc? Importing cryogenic-style methane from the Persian Gulf by sea makes money for someone, somewhere.