That's why every self-respecting Spaniard in the house there is a box of plastic caps!

This article is not about the crafts with their hands. Immensely you'd be surprised what you can make from plastic lids on a global scale.

Plastic — a material that can be recycled. To our great joy, the tradition to recycle the packaging slowly taking root, because where to put them, waste? Can't be burned because the atmosphere is polluted. To bury in the ground is also unacceptable, the earth is hurting. Throw in the seas and oceans — blasphemy.





What make of caps from plastic butyloctyl journalist, traveling to Spain, was constantly amazed. Wherever he came, in any Spanish house, he easily found a glass bowl with plastic lids. Of course, this is not the only oddity that a man noticed in the domestic habits of the Spaniards, so that the tradition to collect the caps caused him something akin to affection... He never even asked why the owners needed to collect the garbage.

One day he saw a huge container in front of the supermarket where everyone was throwing plastic bottle caps. The solution was amazing! Next to a picture of a seven year old little girl. Turns out she needed a heart operation costing 90 thousand euros. When the girl's parents asked for help the whole country during a TV transmission, a large recycling company plastic said. The Corporation has requested 200 tons of plastic lids, saying that in the case of collection of this huge mass of plastic required to give money for treatment.

Boxes to collect plastic caps were installed everywhere, and for a couple of months, the Spaniards collected the right amount! Wow... People still continue collecting caps, a company of plastic recycling signed a deal with charity funds, funds for the disabled. A double miracle: not only a cleaner environment but also help others!





In 2010, in Turkey there was a truly miraculous event. Students of the Istanbul medical University were collected and handed over to the scrap the cap to make a wheelchair for a needy.

Regular plastic covers can become angel wings. What is the process of assisting the needy? Plastic raw materials are collected and deposited in the processing company. The company pays for raw plastic material and transfers the money to the account of the Fund for the disabled, charity Fund or help Fund suffered during hostilities.





In Poland even dentures are made from a mixture of plastic and silicone. For prosthetic hands need about 500 thousand caps for prosthetic legs — to 850 thousand caps. Of course, such a prosthesis is not similar to the miracle of technology, they are controlled by the mind. But with a plastic prosthetic leg man does not even limp! With a prosthetic hand can help healthy hand in performing everyday activities. Covers for such prostheses collect and the people of Ukraine.





Of course, there are other examples of the use of plastic in everyday life, but about this way I wanted to tell in the first place. Definitely see if there are any in your town such points of reception of plastic covers. A mere trifle: to throw the cap in the trash, but in a special container. But this basic action you can help others!

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Alexander Klimchuk Since childhood, interested in medicine, grew up in a family of doctors. Knows how to make a fancy Breakfast out of nothing, is not afraid to experiment in the kitchen, making pies without flour, low-fat mayonnaise, healthy sweets. Never give up and believes that people are created to help each other! In all its domestic Affairs the assistant to the son Sasha. Alexandra's favorite book — "the Art of loving" by E. Fromm.

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