Millions of plastic bottles are thrown away every day, and a large proportion of them never go to recycling. Thousands of tons of plastic can either lie in a landfill (or even in a forest or on a beach!), Or be beneficial when reused. In the latter case, you do not have to buy other things, and harm to nature will be somewhat minimized.
Use used plastic in your vegetable garden or garden, and the burden on recycling plants will be slightly reduced. Plus, you can get a variety of handy gadgets that make caring for your plants much easier. You will save your time and money.
Use the bottle as a mini greenhouse
Saplings or delicate plants can be very vulnerable in the wind. Protect them by covering the top with a plastic bottle with no cap. Young shoots will be saved from cold and bad weather, and water and sunlight will easily penetrate to them.
Build a drip irrigation device for plants
Ready-made electronic drip irrigation systems are very expensive. Replace it with a plastic bottle construction with holes drilled in the sides and a hose. The bottle should be buried next to the plant's root system. The neck should protrude above the soil surface, under the water hose. The plant will take as much moisture as it needs.
Make a watering can from a bottle
Water the garden with warm water. Instead of buying a ready-made watering can, you can drill holes in a plastic bottle. Refill bottles early in the morning and leave in the sun. By the evening, the water will warm up and you can start watering your beds.
Make a sprinkler
To ensure constant watering of the garden, you need to dissipate a large stream of water from the hose. Take a clean bottle and poke many small holes on one of its sides. Connect a water hose to the bottle. This design will provide your garden with even watering.
Gentle fruit picker
Ripe apples and pears are not easily removed from the topmost branches. If you shake the tree, most of the fruit will break and cannot be stored for long. Another way is to attach a ladder to the tree. But this is not very convenient, and rather tiresome. Make a simple picker by cutting a hole in the side of the plastic bottle. All that remains is to screw the bottle onto the mop handle. Collect fruit easily!
Wasp trap
Annoying guests can cause a lot of trouble. And if they choose your site, learn to defend yourself. Make a bottle trap with some honey or sweet water. Place the top half of the bottle in the bottom and secure the edges with a stapler. This trap will work especially well where you dine. Wasps will easily make their way to honey, but not everyone will be able to get back.
Convenient scoop
You don't have to run after a shovel if you're doing garden work. Sometimes you need a scoop without a long handle. Cut off the bottom and side of the large bottle (a detergent can is best). Be careful when cutting off excess. The edges of this bottle are very tough and difficult to cut.
Fill the space of the pot with empty bottles
To ensure good drainage, stones or peat are placed at the bottom of the pot. This makes the container heavier and the plants are difficult to move from place to place. Fill the extra space with sealed bottles and you have a lightweight pot.
Plastic bottles in everyone's life they have firmly taken their place as disposable containers and their use is only in the form of containers, but we can get much more benefit without throwing them away. For most people, a bottle is useless, but if you are smart, you can find many ways to make your life easier and save money with bottles. From a plastic bottle you can make almost everything, you need the bottles themselves and a little imagination.
Sprinkler for the garden.
One of the simplest ways is useful apply the bottle in the vegetable garden or garden- make of it garden sprinkler, it is nowhere easier to make it. We attach a plastic container to the garden hose and make several small holes, then we tightly fasten the hose to the neck. In this way, we made a sprinkler for the garden.
Advice.For convenience, use a square container or secure a round one with a weighty object.
Not an uncommon case, the charger wire is missing from socket to place where you can put your mobile phone, everything can be fixed by making a clumsy holder for your mobile phone... It is necessary to cut the bottle diagonally, take the bottom and cut a round hole in the upper part for the socket. Now the phone will lie in the bottom with a socket.
Advice.It is better to cut the bottle as close to the top as possible, this will allow you to hold the phone more securely.
You lose every time stationery, you have to look for them, you need to make it easy to manufacture stand... In addition, the bottle will need a bolt and nut. You need to cut off the top and bottom after drilling a hole in the plug and the bottom and connect with a bolt with a nut. It will be convenient to use this since it turns out 2 departments. In the upper section, pens and pencils will fit, and in the lower section there are paper clips, buttons, graters and you will not have to take out pens because of little things.
Advice.Tighten the bolt and nut loosely, then the top will be able to scroll.
Empty canister with manual, it is not necessary to throw it away, it can be useful if you do not need it or has fallen into disrepair from it it will turn out scoop... It is necessary to mark the canister with a marker as in the photo and cut it.
Advice.For convenience, make the nose of the scoop square.
Glass jar lamination.
We use glass jars for different purposes and you have to mark them in all ways, but the inscriptions do not hold well on the glass, and the glued papers quickly become unusable, and laminate there is no possibility. With the presence of an industrial hair dryer, this problem is solved forever, while the strength of the dishes will increase. If you break it, you won't have to pick up the pieces and cut your hands. Having shown imagination, the jar can be well decorated. It is easy to do, you need one bottle, suitable in size and color, and a piece of paper with an inscription or a picture that we want to attach. However, there is a way to do without an industrial hair dryer.
Method one.
Cut off the top of the bottle and place it on the bottom with the cork up, then put a jar on the cork with the inscription put on gloves and start heating the industrial hair dryer. When the hair dryer heats up, you can begin to gently heat the jar in a circle, without lingering in one place. You need to take a stock, the plastic will settle both in width and in height. When the jar is tightly tightened with plastic, cut off the excess and reheat the angular parts, if all the parts are flat, the jar is ready.
Advice.Start heating the plastic from the bottom, gradually rising.
Method two.
Cut off the top of the bottle and put the jar with the glued inscription on the bottom. To heat the plastic in this case, we need a tall pot of water and a stove. The pot should not be full or water will splash onto the stove. When everything is ready and the water boils, we lower the bottle in boiling water and begin to turn it slowly, holding the neck of the glass jar with tongs.
Advice.By holding the jar at an angle, the effect will be achieved more quickly.
Are you bored balls of thread confused with each other and stuck in nodes, the way out is simple - from bottles of any size we make a device for holding the threads in one place... At the same time, the tangles will rub less, get confused and get stuck. You can make a holder with attachment to a chair or armchair. We cut the bottle closer to the neck, leaving the part that must be cut in the form of a rectangle to the bottom, after which we make a hole in the resulting tail to the size of the cap and put it on.
Advice.The device can be hung by making holes on opposite edges and threading through them.
With the onset of cold weather in every house, all possible types of heaters are turned on and at the same time indoor air becomes dry and we begin to experience discomfort. Headaches, skin problems, mucosal irritations and other inconveniences can be avoided by making a quiet, simple, convenient and reliable indoor humidifier. For this you will need:
- Duct tape
- Scissors or knife
- A strip of fabric, or lace
- Two liter bottle
- gauze cloth
Advice.Pouring essential oils into the container, we get an air freshener.
Instructions
- In the side of the bottle we make a slot 5 × 10 centimeters, errors are permissible.
- We hang the resulting bottle with strips or a cord on the straight upper pipe entering the battery with the hole up and fasten it tightly with tape so that the bottle does not jump out and spin.
- We smooth the gauze several times to get a rectangle 10 centimeters wide and a meter long.
- Place the middle of the folded fabric in the hole, and wind the ends around the tube of the battery.
- Pour water into the resulting container and moisten the wound gauze, this is the maintenance of the device.
Mosquito trap
From a two-liter bottle make a mosquito trap... The trap will attract small insects through fermentation processes, namely carbon dioxide. For manufacturing you will need:
- 1 gram baker's yeast
- two liter bottle
- dark fabric
- 50 grams of sugar
- 200 ml of water with a temperature not exceeding 40 degrees
We start manufacturing with cutting in such a way that the neck, upside down, fits tightly into the bottle and lacks water. Now, when the container is ready, pour out the sugar, yeast and fill it with forty-degree water, it should not be warmer or hotter. If the liquid is too hot, fermentation will not start due to the death of the yeast bacteria. Pour water slowly and mix the mixture. Now we insert the neck into the bottle in the manner of a funnel. In order for mosquitoes to come across, the trap must be covered with a dense cloth that does not transmit light or paper. Once in such a trap, mosquitoes will not get out. Insects will fall into such a trap for up to a week after which we will change the mixture.
Advice.After preparing the mixture, put it in a warm place.
From several one and a half liter bottles we make a simple and extremely durable broom... It is convenient to sweep the floor and fluffy surfaces with such a broom. The stiffness of the broom depends on the number of cut pieces.
Manufacturing.
To begin with, we make blanks. Cut off the neck and bottom, dissolve the middle into rags to the middle, no wider than two centimeters. You will need 4 of these, and leave one more top with a neck. Now we put everything together, and cut off the top from the next bottle, put it on what happened and squeeze it. We take a strong wire and pass it through all the bottles around the edges. We put everything on the handle through the cork and fasten it with wire. For reliability, we drive a nail through the neck into the handle.
Advice.Use copper stranded wire.
If in nature we did not have mugs you can easily make it out of a bottle... To begin with, we cut off the top, then using a knife or scissors we cut out a square, retreating 2-3 centimeters from the upper cut. We cut out exactly and with the expectation that the width of the remaining lintel will be the handle. Turn the top ring inside out and push in the bottom. Now we got a mug that can help us out in nature.
Advice.Without cutting out a large square, you can roll up the middle section and slide the cork ring over it.
Create self-watering flower pot just cut off the top of the bottle first, then the middle part, so that the top goes in without touching the bottom. Then we carefully make a hole in the cork and thread it through. The thread should protrude 5 centimeters from both sides of the cork. Now that everything is ready, pour in the water and insert the upper part that looks like a funnel. Now we fill up the soil, not forgetting to wet it. The plant will absorb the right amount of liquid, which will make it easier to care for the plants.
Advice.Fertilizers can be added to the tank.
Arriving in nature you forgot the cutlery nothing to notice them. A bottle, a knife, and a lighter will be enough to save the situation. Cut out one of the five parts of the bottom and a little of the upper part in one piece, then burn the edges with a lighter. You can eat and prepare food with this spoon.
Advice.Rinse the appliance after burning.
Not all refrigerators provide vegetable cells and you have to store vegetables in a variety of forms, while the products are beating, scratching and rolling all over the refrigerator. For convenience, use 5 liter eggplants. Cut off the top and fill with vegetables or fruits. In this form, the food will not wrinkle and the free space in the refrigerator will become noticeably larger.
Advice.Store vegetables and fruits in separate containers.
During the cooking process, it is required separately the white or yolk of the egg... But they are not easy to separate, the yolk is very fragile and if punctured, it will mix with the protein. You can cheat with the bottle. Split the egg into a plate, squeeze the bottle and bring it to the yolk. Unclenching, we will pull the yolk into it without damaging it. The method is suitable for cooking dishes, the recipe of which includes a lot of eggs, for example, the popular French meringue dessert "Merengue".
Advice.Rinse bottle before use.
Very practical and handy sandbox accessories. Made in five minutes from a plastic bottle. Your child will really like the transparent bucket and scoop, especially if he decorates them with his own hands.
Bucket and scoop
Preparation method:
Both the bucket and the scoop are made from the same bottle.
- First, cut off the bottom of the bottle. Using a knitting needle or scissors heated over a fire, make holes on both sides for a wire handle. Insert and secure the handle. We stick stickers or translators. If the edge of the bucket is sharp, you can wrap it with ordinary duct tape.
- A scoop or spatula is made from the remainder of the bottle. The upper part of the bottle with a cork will be a handle, and the middle part of the bottle is cut smoothly under the scoop. It can also be pasted over with stickers, just try to glue it closer to the handle, otherwise they will quickly peel off on the working part of the scoop.
It is advisable to choose even bottles for these sand accessories. In our version, the bottle was embossed only at the bottom and near the cork, and the middle, from which the blade was cut, was even.
We managed to make two useful things at once from one plastic bottle. See for yourself.
1. Scoop from a plastic bottle
2. Cell phone holder
Once again I was on the market and saw an interesting thing. You, too, have noticed a hundred times yourself. Everything is very simple and trivial, but when you need it yourself you can't remember and don't do it.
A scoop cut from a plastic bottle for picking up a small amount of bulk materials! As soon as I came home I got down to business. We take a plastic bottle, scissors and a marker. With a marker, mark the borders along which you need to cut, as shown in the photo, and forward.
We do not throw out the lid from under the plastic bottle, but close the "neck" so that the collected bulk material does not spill out.
This is how we made a scoop for scooping sugar, cereals, etc.
That's not all.
Cell phone holder.
See for yourself.
The rest of the plastic bottle also found its way.
Carefully correct the cut edges so that there are no irregularities and look nice.
Cut out a round hole. So we got a holder for a sotik. We hang the holder on the charger and plug it into an outlet, and put the phone inside. Very comfortably. Recomend for everybody.
If the holder is large, you can cut it out smaller - at your discretion, I left it that way.
This is how I made two useful items from one plastic bottle.
A cell phone holder can be made in the same way and from the top of a plastic bottle with a neck.
See for yourself.
