Eco Cap Activity
What's Ayako's Eco Cap Activity?
Ayako raises money by collecting and selling the plastic bottle caps consumed during golf tournaments and in daily life to recycling centers, and the sales profits from the caps are used to provide children's polio vaccines in developing countries.
Comments from Ayako
Activities
In July 2010, during her brief break Ayako visited Okinawa Ecological Cooperative Associastion to recycle the caps she has collected.
- 1) She brought in the caps to the association. The caps seen are only a small part.
- 2) The chairman showed her how to weigh the caps, and Ayako tried herself.
- 3) After weighing, the number is recored into the data sheet.
- 4) Ayako received the acknowledgment of the caps from the association. This time 37,200 caps were counted and weighed 93kg, which can make vaccines for 46.5 children.
How Caps Are Used Later On
The caps sold to the association are then changed into various products. In this association, the chipped pieces of caps are reformed and reused in building materials. And by this reuse, we can save Okinawa's natural forest (Yanbaru) resources. Further more, by saving the forests, we can stop the runoff of red soil into the ocean, and lessen the artificial extinction of the coral reef.
