A Bike Built from Plastic Bottles

A Bike Built from Plastic Bottles

The bicycle is an excellent means of transport, especially because of their characteristics linked to sustainability: not pollute, it's practically free and helps to keep fit.

Furthermore, the PET bottles are a big problem for modern societies: each bottle takes 10 thousand years to decompose and today, with the amount of packaged products, there are millions of bottles are discarded every day in the world that can not be degrade.
Muzzicycles is a Brazilian company that brought these two issues in a project consisting of 200 recycled PET bottles per bike is manufactured.

The creator was Juan Muzzi, a Uruguayan artist who took the initiative to make plastic bottles in a bicycle frame, creating a means of transport based on simplicity, "ecologically correct" and accessible because, as told in his Web, "this bike can reach an audience of 70 million people who need a cheap transportation model"

Plastic bottles began to be used in Brazil since 1993. At first, it was a groundbreaking invention as glass bottles occupied much space in factories and required a lot of water and chemicals for sanitation and high transport costs and it was very heavy containers.

The PET containers are well convrtieron in everyday objects and in a few years became a highly polluting material by the large volume of waste generated and how much it takes to decompose. This waste is housed in rivers and oceans, and the components that have the plastic affects the health of animals and humans.

It is clear that the harmful effects of plastic are many, is why we have designed different ways to recycle and reuse packaging to create other things. Along with Brazilian NGOs in charge of recycling, Muzzicycles believe their own solution: Bicycle hacercuadros. Thus began a project designed from two angles: first recycle PET containers and on the other, creating a sustainable, cleaner, quieter transport and, above all, economically accessible to the whole society.

Thus, to use recycled PET, the welding of other materials is removed, which is a cheaper way of manufacturing bicycles. The process involves slicing bottles, crushed and subjected to a hardening process. Then, the paste is injected into a heated steel mold. Once this process is allowed to cool and the finished picture emerges.

The great benefits of this product can be listed as follows:

• PDL (Process Clean Desenvolvimento)
• Reuse of PET bottles
• Ecologically correct
• It's cheaper
• Does not rust
• Eliminates welding
• Does not require buffer
• Injected color
• Eliminates Paint
• An organic and comfortable design
• Made of recycled blends of thermoplastic resins
• Have a smooth ride
• self-sustaining project
• Extract less iron ore and bauxite
• Processes least alumina
• Benefit CO²
• Reduces Greenhouse

The Brazilian company speaks of this initiative as the "fulfillment of a utopia" and recognize that such attitudes as that Juan Muzzi are "the possibility of a new type of holistic art able to gather literature, philosophy, science , sociology, technology, and the creation of new elements made of pure abstractions such as solidarity, peace, non-violence and love "