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Of all the things you can craft out of recycled plastic bottles, who knew tee shirts was one of them? Playback Clothing is putting good use to the over-abundance of those yucky bottles used, sorted and tossed by millions of Americans, they've turned them into a line of adorable tees.

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The unisex shirts are made from 65% recycled PET bottles and 35% recycled cotton, and contain no chemical dyes, so they still retain the color of the original bottle. The shirts are named appropriately, a la, Beer Bottle Brown or Soda Bottle Green.

So just how much bottle goes into each shirt? About 8.5 bottles go into each of these, which you can buy here. They're also giving 20% off on all internet orders through 10/31/09! You know you love a good discount.

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Maybe you can't afford to buy a recycled plastic bottle t-shirt. At the very least, these scary plastic bottle facts should shock you into buying an aluminum or steel re-usable bottle for chugging water!

    - Americans throw away 2 million plastic bottles every ten minutes.
    - 1 million recycled plastic bottles saves 3.8 barrels of oil.
    - 1 million recycled plastic bottles eliminates 180 metric tons of C02.
    - 10% of all US oil or 2 is used to make plastics.

Yikes. If that doesn't spook you into changing your plastic-bottle-toting ways, we just don't know what will.

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Malicious Mallory

POSTED 2 YEARS AGO

2 million bottles every TEN MINUTES? :O
We are icky.

I'm leading my school's environmental club to make a video about plastic bottle waste-age and then we're going to be selling reuseable bottles. It'll be an epic video.

BBrandy

BBrandy says:
POSTED 2 YEARS AGO

Oooh I'd love to buy a bunch of those shirts if they were cheap.

{mandy.mayhem}

POSTED 2 YEARS AGO

wow, this is really cool.i want to send this to my school, we waste sooo much paper And plastic every day.
if you look at the website..another good thing about giving your clothes to shelters: you get a tax break for them.at least at the ones i know.

Jesse

Jesse says:
POSTED 2 YEARS AGO

i want this

stellacat

stellacat says:
POSTED 2 YEARS AGO

I got me an aluminum bottle and I love it! I even feel like I drink more water, just because I like drinking out of it.

KaylaMae

KaylaMae says:
POSTED 2 YEARS AGO

i want one!

PenguinRawr!

POSTED 2 YEARS AGO

this isn't anything new, polyester clothing is recycled plastic. i saw a show about it on discovery channel.

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