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Recycled BRAD Plastic Bottle Opener

Recycled BRAD Plastic Bottle Opener

Made from bottle top lids ยท Collected through BRAD ยท Handmade in Sydney

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Handmade in Sydney ยท Made from BRAD lids

This bottle opener used to be 16 bottle tops

Every one starts as bottle top lids collected through BRAD, our recycling program. We sort them by colour, shred them, press them into a solid slab, then cut and finish each opener by hand in our Sydney workshop.

The marbling you can see is the plastic itself. Nothing is painted, dyed or coated. Because each batch is pressed from whatever lids came in that week, no two openers look the same. Same shape, same feel, different face.

Choose your colour

  • Deep Blue is bright blue with white marbling running through it.
  • Midnight Black is black with white and grey flecks.
  • Orbital is a unique mix of our offcuts, reshredded and pressed, a bit like looking down at a planet.
  • Tutti Frutti our limited edition addition adds a fun and colourful pop.

Also available in Pearl, Birthday Cake and Seafoam.

New for the Tutti Frutti drop: a limited colourway pressed from two years of Banish offcuts, every speck a piece of a product we made earlier. When the Tutti Frutti mix is gone it is gone, so if it sells out join the waitlist on this page.

Add an engraving for $10

Up to 10 characters on the back. Letters, numbers and standard keyboard characters are all fine, so a name, a date or a nickname all work.

If you're in Sydney, you can pick up in store for same day engraving. Engraved openers are made to order, so they cannot be returned.

The details

  • 15cm long, 4.5cm wide, 1.2cm high
  • 59g
  • Made from 16 recycled plastic bottle top lids
  • Metal latch with a rustproof coating
  • Dishwasher safe
  • Hole at one end so it can hang on a hook
  • Handmade in Sydney
  • Dispatched in 2 to 3 business days

Why bottle tops

Bottle tops are one of the many things your kerbside bin will not take. They are small, light and easy to miss on a sorting line, so most of them end up as landfill even when the bottle they came from gets recycled.

BRAD, the Banish Recycling and Diversion program, was built for exactly these awkward items. Thousands of Australians send them to us every month. We sort them, clean them, and give them somewhere useful to go. This opener is one of those places.

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The impact in this order

Made from about

 

bottle top lids, sent to us by households around Australia and turned into something for your table.

Recycled BRAD Plastic Bottle Opener

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  • Recycled plastic–
  • Made from100% bottle top lids
  • Collected throughBRAD, the Banish Recycling and Diversion Program
  • Made byOur team at our Sustainability Hub at Sydney's Central Station

Lid counts are based on finished weight at 3 g per lid, so they are approximate. The cart count only includes items from our entertaining range (napkin rings, candle holders, entertaining sets and bottle openers).

Want to be part of the next batch? Send your bottle top lids in through BRAD.

How BRAD works

Where it comes from

From lid to table

Every piece is made from bottle top lids sent to us by households around Australia, so each one shows the impact we are making together.

How it is made

Lids sent in from across Australia
Step 1Households around Australia send us their bottle top lids.
Sorted by hand by our volunteers
Step 2Our volunteers sort every lid by type and colour.
Shredded
Step 3The sorted lids are shredded down into flakes.
Pressed into sheets
Step 4The flakes are pressed into a sheet of recycled plastic.
Cut using a CNC machine
Step 5Each shape is cut out of the sheet using a CNC machine.
Final product
Step 6Finished by our team at our Sustainability Hub at Sydney's Central Station. Every piece is unique.