PETpla.net Insider 04/ 2013

imprint EDITORIAL PUBLISHER Alexander Büchler, Managing Director HEAD OFFICE heidelberg business media GmbH Häusserstr. 36 69115 Heidelberg, Germany phone: +49(0)6221-65108-0 fax: +49(0)6221-65108-28 info@hbmedia.net EDITORIAL Doris Fischer: f ischer@hbmedia.net Michael Maruschke Ruari McCallion Waldemar Schmitke Ilona Trotter Wolfgang von Schroeter Anthony Withers MEDIA CONSULTANTS Ute Andrä andrae@hbmedia.net Martina Hischmann hirschmann@hbmedia.net Roland Loch loch@hbmedia.net phone: +49(0)6221-65108-0 fax: +49(0)6221-65108-28 France, Italy, Spain, UK Elisabeth Maria Köpke phone: +49(0)6201-878925 fax: +49(0)6201-878926 koepke@hbmedia.net LAYOUT AND PREPRESS Exprim Kommunikationsdesign Matthias Gaumann | www.exprim.de READER SERVICES Shiraz El Goudi reader@hbmedia.net PRINT Chroma Druck & Verlag GmbH Werkstr. 25 67454 Römerberg Germany WWW www.hbmedia.net | w ww.petpla.net PETplanet insider ISSN 1438-9459 is published 10 times a year. This publication is sent to qualified subscribers (1-year subscription 149 EUR, 2-year subscription 289 EUR, Young professionals’ sub- scription 99 EUR. Magazines will be dispatched to you by airmail). Not to be reproduced in any form without permission from the publisher. Note: The fact that product names may not be identified as trade marks is not an indication that such names are not registered trademarks. 3 PET planet insider Vol. 14 No. 04/13 www.petpla.net EDITORIAL dear readers, Every so often we come across extraordinary new ways of re-using empty PET bottles that go way beyond the usual recycling process. For the most part these are highly unorthodox ways of transforming PET bottles into cones or strips which can then be woven into bags. It is quite rare for bottles to be taken up by designers. We have discovered this web page which we think might be of interest: http://www.designboom.com/contemporary/petbottles.html Here a few creative heads have got together to come up with novel ways of re-using empty PET bottles. We were particularly taken with the watering can and the clothes hanger. The only question that comes to mind is whether these two designer objects have been produced with the PCO 1810 or the PCO 1881. It should work with either of them. Yours Alexander Büchler Hanger, design by: Xuan Yu from USA Designer’s own words: The product turns two plastic bottles into a clothes hanger by screwing the bottles into the hook. By the concept that reuses empty plastic bottles, I am trying to pre- sent to consumers a realistic idea of environmental realities with the hope that it will encourage the reuse of already “consumed” items to form a new functional product. The design incorporates the following features that make it practical and appealing to both producers and consumers: • Low cost, realistic commodity • The shape of the bottle provides more fit support for the shoulder of clothes than traditional ones • Inspire the inter- est of users: the concept will attract consumers and inspire a rethinking of consumption habits. Watering can, design by: Nicolas le Moigne from Switzerland Designer’s own words: The idea consists in re-using PET and glass bottles. A PET closing piece is able to fit different shapes of bottles and change it into a watering can.