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Banda Aceh, Oct 18 (EFE/EPA).- An Indonesian man makes stools from used plastic bottles as part of environmental solution. Zainuddin is a teacher who starts using used bottles as materials for making stools and sofas, a side business he started during the COVID-19 pandemic. He developed the idea of making stools using used bottles as a form of environmental preservation and increasing the family's incomes during the economic recession caused by the pandemic. (Camera: HOTLI SIMANJUNTAK). SHOT LIST: ZAINUDDIN MAKES STOOLS FROM RECYCLED PLASTIC BOTTLES AT HIS WORKSHOP IN BANDA ACEH, INDONESIA.
Panama City, Sep 18 (EFE).- Hundreds of Panamanians turned out on Saturday to clean local beaches with the aim of highlighting the serious environmental problem posed by pollution of the oceans and raising awareness of the importance of reducing the use and consumption of plastics. Some 250 volunteers - including adults, teenagers and children - removed almost three tons of waste, mostly plastic, cloth and wood, piling it up in garbage bags. (Camera: CARLOS LEMOS). SHOT LIST: VOLUNTEERS PARTICIPATE IN A DAY OF BEACH CLEANING IN PANAMA CITY, PANAMA.
Bacardi is rolling out the world's first fully biodegradable spirits bottle, as well as paper bottles. Both bottle types will hit shelves in the US by 2023. Business Insider reports the bottles will be used for brands including Bombay Sapphire, Grey Goose, and Martini, alongside Bacardi rum. The new bottles can biodegrade within 18 months – and don't leave microplastics behind.
A Gaza fisherman crafted a boat made from plastic bottles to help in his battle against poverty.
A new Berlin Wall is springing up the in the Kreuzberg neighborhood, but it's not meant to divide people. Petrov Chojnacki, an out-of-luck construction worker, is building a huge wall made out of over 3,400 empty beer bottles on a green space near Schlesisches Tor U-Bahn station in Berlin and it's drawn attention from both tourists and authorities alike.
Border guards patrolling the Kerch Strait picked up a man sailing a hand-made raft of plastic bottles on Wednesday and brought him into custody. Authorities noticed the man's ludicrous floating device while patrolling the water around a mile from the coastline. It turned out that the man, a 53-year-old native of Tashkent, was attempted to make the crossing from the Russian mainland to the Crimean peninsula via his rickety, hand-made contraption. Police gave the traveller a warning for violating the marine travel laws and sent him on his way.
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