The ‘Floating Factor’: Five Bottles With Something Extra by Leslie Pariseau Oct 14, 2011, 4:00 AM PDT ...

TORONTO, ON — If you happen to see any orange plastic bottles floating in Lake Ontario, leave them be. They might look like trash in the water, but they're actually part of a research project ...

The island is made out of marine foam for buoyancy and recycled plastic bottles — for every square foot, about 12 1/2 water bottles were kept out of the landfill, Correa said.

TARRANT COUNTY, Texas — Hand sanitizer bottles floating in the Trinity River are the result of an Oct. 6 fire at a warehouse storing the product, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality ...