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Joan B Peterson

Kevin R Peterson

A recycling strip for holding, storing, toting, and returning empty recyclable plastic bottles, for instance, soft drink bottles. The strip has a plurality of collar holes distributed uniformly and unilinearly along the strip. The collar holes have a diameter sligthly larger than the outside diameter of a common plastic bottleneck. The collar holes have radial slits forming collars which enable a bottleneck flange to be engaged in the strip. The strip is then used for transporting engaged bottles and can be recycled with the bottles. The strip may be loaded in a dispenser which provides a convenient means of storing the strip. The dispenser also holds the strip securely so that a bottle may be engaged in the strip with a single one handed motion. Furthermore the dispenser provides an engagement mechanism, which aligns a collar hole in the strip with the collar openning of the dispenser and prevents the strip from uncontrolled travel out of the dispenser. It also provides a disengagement mechanism which meters the travel of the strip and is activated by a bottle engaged in the strip through the dispenser. The trailing portion of the strip with bottles engaged may then be removed from the dispenser for recycling.

Recycling strip and dispenser for handling empty plastic bottles

A recyclable strap for holding, storing, toting, and returning empty recyclable plastic jugs. The strap has a hole at either end. One end of the strap is threaded through a plastic jug handle and the hole at the other end of the strap. The strap cinches on the handle of the jug forming a stop and may then be suspended using the hole at the free end of the strap. Multiple jugs may then be threaded on the strap through their handles. The strap is then used for transporting the jugs and can be recycled with the jugs.

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Sudbury, MA, United States of America

Joan B Peterson