CEO Today USA Awards

CEO Today USA Awards 2019 www.ceotodaymagazine.com - W A S H I N G T O N - 120 WILLIAM JOHNSON William J Inventions - ToPo ® FIRM PROFILE Help sToPollution ® With ToPo ® – The Bottle Top Toy With a Smile. The single-use plastic item is the industry’s Achilles Heel and major concern of the Plastic Industry and Consumer World to-Day. ToPo ® Is designed to help answer this serious concern by converting a Single-Use plastic closure into a continual-use, collectable and educational construction toy that can eventually be recycled. Therefore ToPo ® is a screw-top closure that has a second life as a collectable toy, not to be discarded. Each bottle cap, which can be either circular or square, has two sets of male and female connectors. These link together to make 2D models and can snap together vertically to also make 3D models. The toy helps to educate children and make them aware of the environment and thus Stop Plastic Waste – sToPollution ® - which is causing so much current and potential damage. Thus ToPo ® , with a simple twist, converts a previously wastefully discarded closure, into a much loved collected and used Toy. Most importantly increasing the sales of one of the biggest Consumer Products to be found on our shelves, on whose head it sits like a prominent distinctive Crown! A FEW COMMENTS FROM WILLIAM JOHNSON: “We created a plastic bottle screw top that converts, after its original use, into a ‘collectable’ toy that is both fun and educational, in which children can construct, (Lego like) any amount of different structures, and play both word games and numerical puzzles or make messages and thus stopping the “throwing away” element. The ToPos are fully recyclable,” Mr. Johnson explains. “ToPo has approached a number of children’s charities to become involved, particularly with the collection and recycling of the tops and to use of the funds collected with integrity. Other than the great and important environmental advantages that ToPo brings, the Golden Nugget is that if 1 in 100 Tops (ToPos) were to be recycled at the current rate of 10 cents a lb (pound) then $20,000,000 (approx.) would be raised for Children’s Charities, so in effect, children are helping children and the environment. With their help it is hoped that an industrial change can be made and beverage corporations will be convinced of ToPo’s benefits.” Most recently, as a way to deal with the ever increasing pressure on how to deal with an excess of plastics, Tetra-Kap® was born, which, like Topo®, turns a plastic cap into a collectable educational toy once it has become detached from the container, preventing it from being thrown away. Tetra- Kap® was recently granted a patent in the USA. Tetra-Kap®/ Topo® is an important integral constituent to help in the battle to save the environment. The UN estimates that by 2050, at the current rate of plastic finding its way into the Oceans/Seas there will be more plastic “pieces” than fish in the waters, and Tetra-Kap®/ Topo ® can play a role to alleviate this problem.” www.topobottle.com