Twist & Spout Brings New Uses to Plastic Bottles?

Posted on December 6, 2008 by Doug Gunzelmann in Concept+Design, Home+Decor

The Twist and Spout was created by a Swiss designer, Nicolas Le Moigne, and was featured at the Housewares Fair in Milan, Italy. It’s implications could mean an extended life for plastic bottles of any size with the standard screw top, but is it worth its production?

This may not be a groundbreaking concept but a quick and simple way to reduce the rate and scope of consumption and waste. The spout could be used for the obvious, such as watering the garden or perhaps attending to the family fish bowl. However, since this thing is made of plastic and aids in the consumption of plastic bottles (which the Twist and Spout requires for its function) does this really do the environment any good?

Although it seems pretty, and I’m sure it’s convenient, its value as an eco-friendly life extender to plastic bottles is far fetched. However, if you’re interested in buying one anyway they are sold here!

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bottles, Design, plastic, water

7 Responses to “ Twist & Spout Brings New Uses to Plastic Bottles? ”

Yiati

07. Dec, 2008

Wow that is the biggest rip off ever… that is greed in its brightest form for you!!

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Matt

08. Dec, 2008

@Yiati

You said… “that is greed in its brightest form for you!!”

I’m not sure I understand what you are talking about. Can you explain what you mean?

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jason

10. Dec, 2008

Cute, but the bottle alone works just as well.

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swandiver

20. Dec, 2008

One of my biggest pet peeves with the “green” movement initially was that it required me to repurchase a lot of stuff. Most of the time these products are not even available in my working class neighborhood making the whole “buy local” think impractical. But when I do look around the area where I live, I do see a who lot of people buying soda and other bottled drinks.

So, while not the greenest thing on the market today, it could serve as a good tool to get people who are normally preoccupied with other things like paying their rent a way to save money on future purchases and start thinking about consumption.

But $8.00 for a piece of plastic that cost maybe fifty cents to produce is ridiculous. I’ll wait for them to hit the dollar store.

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sudarshan

21. Apr, 2009

i don know but to produce dis stuff itself is promoting for the
usage of plastic…
why don’t there should be some other ecofriendly material rather than plastic…….!!!

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sudarshan

21. Apr, 2009

i don know but to produce dis stuff itself is promoting for the
usage of plastic…
there should be some other ecofriendly material rather than plastic…….!!!

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