At Jack & Co, we’re really conscious of our environmental footprint and have set ourselves sustainability goals to drive our actions in to the future. When the kids at the Northside Montessori School contacted us to ask for our used milk bottle lids, we were really delighted to hear that there was a new use for recycling of bottle caps into pens and help save the planet.
The Year 7 students at Northside Montessori school have been collecting milk bottle lids for couple of months at our Pymble store. The students have sorted the HDPE plastic lids, melted them, shaped them with a lathe and recycled them into pens. They have called their student run enterprise ‘Planet Pens’ with proceeds going to environmental charities and back into the business.
They also recently entered the Young Environmental Leaders category of the Keep Australia Beautiful Awards and were chosen as the winner from a simple concept of recycling of bottle caps.
Below is the video that the students put together as part of their award submission.
There is so much about this project that we love. Not only are the local kids repurposing waste by recycling of bottle caps into reusable goods, but they have shown their entrepreneurial spirit and donated the funds to Planet Ark. Well done!