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- Becky Striepe
- March 20, 2012
- 5:05 pm
- 128 comments
You can use your crafty skills to repurpose those plastic bottles into cute home and garden accessories. From lighting to window treatments, there are lots of cute ways to divert that waste from the bin!
1. Make plastic bottle lights. You can whip up a string of plastic bottle lights, like in the photo above. Just use a small drill bit to drill holes in the bottoms of the bottles, stick an LED Christmas light through each one, and hang! If you need to make it more secure, you can use a little hot glue to hold the bottles in place.
2. Create a chandelier. Got a big stash of empty bottles? Over at Dollar Store Crafts, Heather shows you how to turn them into a chandelier!
3. Upcycled vases. Wrap those empty bottles up and turn them into sweet vases for the table. You can use raffia, like she did at Zakka Life, or try cutting up scrap fabric into super skinny strips to up the recycled content even more.
4. Make a milk jug shade. If you have some plastic jugs handy, you can cut them up to create a mod window shade. Check out how over at Mother Earth News.
5. Whip up a hummingbird feeder. Turn an old juice jug into a homemade hummingbird feeder in a few simple steps!
6. Grow some food. Mike at Urban Organic Gardener shows you how to transform old plastic bottles into upside down herb planters.
>> Next: Put those plastic bottles to work!
Image Credit: Creative Commons photo by frankh
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Becky Striepe
Becky Striepe is a freelance writer and vegan crafter living in Atlanta, Georgia. Her life’s mission is to make green crafting and vegan food accessible to everyone! Like this article? You can follow Becky on Twitter or find her on Facebook!
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128 comments
+ add your ownThanks a lot! Will definitely use these ideas, especially the lady bugs craft-thingy :)
great ideas
Great ideas thank you.
Thank you
tks
Thanks. Recycling is very good.
Great ideas! Pinned and tweeted!
Thanks for these great tips!!! I love the lights made out of the plastic bottles, they are gorgeous!!!! =]]
cool ideas!
cool ideas!
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