Beer Bottles Can Clean Your Floor
March 5, 2008 – 3:10 am by Daniel JosephsI had a very interesting meeting today with one of my manufacturer reps. He was introducing us to the new EchoMop line from O’Dell Corporation. They created an entire line of mops from PET plastics. What is PET? PET stands for Polyethylene terephthalate. Right, so what is PET? PET plastics are basically your water, beer and soda bottles. O’Dell takes these bottles before they hit the landfills and O’Dell then re-incorporates them along with reclaimed cotton and rayon to engineer fibers, producing mops entirely from recycled materials. Sounds crazy, I know.
The craziness continues when I found that these mops are designed not just to meet the standards set by cotton and rayon mops, but to exceed those standards! The plastics from the PET bottles help prevent the rotting that happens with traditional mops. The mops are strong enough to hold up to laundering, and arid enough to dry 100% overnight. These mops are free from post recycling dyes. So when I say Beer Bottle Brown I literally mean these mops are brown from the color of the recycled beer bottles. And if you’re not into Beer Bottle Brown, the Echo Mop collection comes in a variety of recycled materials and colors: Water Bottle Blue, Soda Bottle Green and the classic Beverage Bottle White.
And with all of these choices, you need to get a handle on these fabulous mops! So if purchasing 100% recycled mops isn’t reason enough for this must-have, perhaps O’Dell’s new Bamwood handle paired with the recycled mop will make you realize, “I need this”! O’Dell has developed a line of handles that is created entirely from a renewable source: Bamboo. Some of the unique properties of Bamboo are:
(1) Bamboo is easily harvested without impacting the environment
(2) Bamboo can regenerate itself
(3) Bamboo is one of the strongest natural materials known to man
(4) Bamboo has antioxidant properties which prevent bacterial growth
So as you can see, EchoMops and Bamwood Handles clean with the power of green.