Can you believe all of these things are made from recycled bottle caps?
At the school I work at in Thailand, we collect plastic bottle caps and give them to an organisation called Precious Plastic Bangkok.
They come to collect the caps and take them away to be shredded, melted, and remoulded into new products, like the ones you see in the photo below.
Caps that might have otherwise ended up in landfill, canals, or the ocean become something usable again. They are then sold (online and at markets) to raise money, which is used to help local communities with other recycling projects.
What I’ve noticed is that this changes behaviour: students stop seeing plastic as waste and start seeing it as something potentially valuable.
Circularity becomes real, not abstract.
Does real change start with systems… or with small, visible actions like this?
