As you know, plastic bottles are one of the main sources of pollution, which is why it is highly advisable to employ ways for recycling or at least proper rubbish removal techniques when it comes to plastic bottles that you use in your everyday life. However there are more ways to make use of your old plastic bottles in addition to just toss them in the bin for the rubbish removal truck to come and collect them, or bringing stacks of them to the depot.
There are a number of DIY projects that you may venture on using old plastic bottles. Thus you will both contribute to the solution of the problem with littering the environment and make something that would be of handy in your everyday life. Let’s take a look at several ideas.
- If you cut out enough bottoms, pierce them and bind them together using a simple metal/wooden stick, you can make a stylish and very useful jewelry stand. You can never have enough of those, right?
- Some people clip the bottoms of plastic bottles and then string them together, thus making very nice looking curtains with two-fold purpose. On one hand, you add privacy to your home, or simply divide two rooms, and on the other – you do not block the light from entering – especially if you use the bottoms of transparent bottles.
- If you or your kids like painting, there is another wonderful use of the bottoms of plastic bottles – you can simply use them as paint stamps, thus creating even and beautifully looking patterns on your paintings.
- One of the oldest and most efficient uses of plastic bottles – besides storing liquids in them of course, is turning one into a garden sprinkler. You need a swivel hose adapter to attach the hose to the bottleneck and to cut some holes throughout the body of the same bottle and you are ready to water your garden/lawn/outdoor space during the heat waves of summer.
- You can tie two bottle bottoms together using super glue and stitching a zipper between them. Add a cushion on the inside and wrap an old inner tube around the zipper in order to make it water proof. Do you know what you have just made? The best protective camera lens case you can hope for!
- If you want to make your patio more vibrant and interesting for the outdoor party you are having Saturday night, remove the labels from colored bottles you have stashed away for the purpose and poke string lights through their bottoms – your outdoor space will be illuminated in a way you have never imagined it can be.
Have in mind that’s only the tip of the iceberg. Use your imagination and come up with more creative ways to reuse your plastic bottles. It is fun and it is good on so many levels – help the environment and help yourself by making the place you live in more functional and green.