Transition Bottles

These Transition Bottles are the peak of Buoy-style environmental conservation. When the injection molding process changes from one color to another, the usual way to do the transition is to clear all the old color from the screw of the injection molder, which makes a noodle-looking mass on the machine, then throw that away and introduce new plastic and dye. Then make another noodle-mass until the color is right, then start making parts. Here's what that noodle tangle of ejected plastic looks like: These little bits of waste add up, and our mission at Buoy is to conserve resources, not waste them. So when we got to our new manufacturer, C&R Molds in Oxnard, we asked them not to clear the machine per usual techniques but rather to continue making bottles. We buy all the in-between colors and this product page is where we let you purchase them. Each of these Mix-Up transition bottles are unique. For this batch, we have some transition bottoms and thumb loops but no transition middles. The "tie-die" bottle bottoms are very unique. We get maybe one to four of those per transition. So those are priced a bit special. The rest are priced per rarity. But they are all rare and limited, so a must for fans of Buoy and what we do. If you want to see the bottles up close, this public drive has a movie of each lot, labeled by number, that shows each bottle in the round. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JIIs2M1-_mrdFAMcfjE4QSYcVIkrMEuT?usp=share_link