Good luck though trying to get 1. Enough people to actually recycle and 2. Get enough people to specifically recycle Coke bottles.

Well not with that attitude, #18. Asking friends/family/whoever to keep (recycle) their coke bottles for you isn't exactly a outlandish suggestion.

I don't understand an art teacher that dictates to their students both the method and the message.

#18 you'd actually be surprised at how much people actually recycle. In the US at least, we have to recycle or we get fined for putting recyclables in normal trash hence why we have 3 trash cans. Since people practice it at home, it's generally practiced in public too. Getting specifically coke bottles would be a problem but lots of people drink some sort of coke pretty often.

Considering it's the next week's assignment, I doubt the whole class could scrape enough bottles together even if everyone's family went out to buy bottled coke right then. Stores don't even stock that many bottles since most people buy canned, though I guess they do stock the plastic bottles.

Idk where 18 lives in America, but it's not at all like that in most places. Most people do recycle, but most places don't have any fines or anything that prevent people from throwing away recyclables or using recyclable bins as trash cans.

I think the biggest problem with that suggestion is the fact that they need bottles. I suppose it may be different in different places, but in the places I've lived, people drink Coke from cans. I can't actually remember ever being offered Coke from a bottle at any friends houses, restaurants, etc. Our family never bought it. Other drinks, sure, but not Coke.

I live in the US and have never recycled or been fined.

In Australia coke in bottles(plastic ones at least) is quite common at least as common as cans, perhaps it's the same where OP is in Columbia?

I recycle when I can, but where I live in the US we don't have fines for not doing it, nor do we have three trash cans. Also, even if you ask everyone you know for Coke bottles (even all drink bottles) it would be difficult to get enough in the time allotted. I know I personally wouldn't be able to, and instead of buying the extra bottles I need I'd probably refuse to do the assignment due to the hypocritical nature of it.

I don't know where you live in the US #27, but in Montana we don't get fines for not recycling.

I'm in NY and some of the towns near me don't even have recycling cans let alone fine people if they don't recycle

Some areas in the USA get fined for not recycling, while other don't get fined. Growing up in the greater Seattle area in Washington State, it's a requirement to have a yard waste bin, a garbage bin, and a recycling bin. We'd get fined for not disposing things in the correct bin. Now, living in a rural area in Florida, we unfortunately don't need to recycle.

Out of various soda bottles that they found, none of which are Coke.

I don't understand why people are downvoting a good plan. For any school project that requires large amounts of things that people generally toss out or recycle why not ask for help?

Soda, and energy drinks are not allow on school property here, only water bottles... ???

119 that depends on where you live, my old high school and middle school didn't care and from what i've heard hey still don't.

But when the message is how bad consumerism is? It would be quite hypocritical.

I think that's what the teacher was thinking.

#7 I agree except they only have a week to get and then assemble said bottles