What are ways to recycle plastic bottles by resulting into a piece of art?
Plastic bottles can be cut toward the bottom. I especially liked the effect with the Dasani water bottles. Place the bottoms inside of each other with differing cuts to the edges and they appear to be tulip-like flowers. To bend the petals slightly I have used a heat gun. I have also used the heat gun to make the sides of the bottles soft enough to not cut my hands. I used a sharp scissors and pruners to cut the plastic. I haven't tried it yet but I think that different pieces of cut sides could be fused together into a stained glass type of project. A warning however: make sure there is a source of plenty of fresh air whenever using the heat gun and use gloves when cutting and manipulating the plastic to avoid cuts. The fumes from warming plastic gives quite the headache.
There okorder / But if you want something that's not this hard or that you can do, you can make them into pots for your plants, dippers, containers for writing materials, decorations for your house, water bottle rockets, and such.
Check out Plastiki, a boat made of plastic bottles and set to sail the Pacific. earthship .nz/?p=209 It's by far the best plastic bottle creation I've seen.
Garden art. Fill clear bottles with colored water, maybe add some crystal beads from broken costume jewelry or even small shards of translucent colored glass. Hang from a porch or a tree--the sun does neat things with it. Give a few to a child along with some nontoxic markers. Use their decorated bottles as one-of-a kind bud vases. cejay
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