I’m in Southern Spain at the moment and I’ve noticed a couple of things:
There are large numbers of soft drinks bottles strew around many urban areas.
There are large numbers of black plastic pipes draped across the countryside, in an attempt irrigate the otherwise dry land.
Today’s invention is a plastic drinks bottle which is designed to be recycled into irrigation pipes.
When the contents have been consumed, the bottles can be punctured in the bottom end and then screwed together tightly, using the moulded-in thread.
(I discovered yesterday that the multi-lobe base of the standard 2 litre bottle, which allows it to stand up and still have a thinner wall, was 20 years in litigation before it could be used. We need to stop allowing lawyers to live off the back of innovation asap).
