his webpage describes an animation that we made to raise awarenessabout the surprisingly poor recycling rates ofplastic water bottles. Since its recent popularization, bottled water(in all its flavors) has become one of the most consumed, yet leastrecycled beverages. For example, it is estimated that in 2005alone approximately 30 billion plastic water bottles were purchased,with only about 12% recycled (in part due to out-dated deposit laws).The remaining 25 billion bottles were eitherlandfilled, littered or incinerated. Obviously that's a lot of bottles,but statistics involving "billions of bottles per year" can bedifficult to put into perspective.
This computer animation provides a simple visual comparison of therate at which plastic water bottles were recycled (approx. 100bottles/second) to the nonrecycled rate (approx. 845 bottles/second;see image) in 2005. To make it more compelling we simulated andrendered bothtorrents of plastic water bottles using custom multibody dynamics,collisions, finite-element structural vibrations and soundsynthesis.
Reduce, reuse, recycle.
Watch video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZbTXDkrD1o
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