13 Creative Ideas For The Further Use Of Plastic Bottles

There is no need to be plastic waste, you can continue to use single-use plastic bottles

Today we want to show you some creative ideas for recycling plastic bottles. Despite the bottle deposit, enough disposable plastic bottles still end up in the trash with us. It doesn’t have to be, because you can make practical things out of the plastic bottles. You can use it to beautify your home or bring joy to others.

Take a look at the options for reusing plastic bottles . Upcycling is so easy!

plant pot

You can create particularly fun flower pots by simply cutting the bottles to the height you need. Important: Do not forget drainage holes in the floor so that the water can run off! Also ideal for growing plants such as vegetables or summer flowers!

Plastic bottle lamp

It doesn’t have to be such an elaborate lamp like the one in the photo, but if you let your creativity run free, you will see what imaginative creations will result!

The bottles can be easily divided with a soldering iron and the cutting edges rounded off with it. Make sure to use an LED or energy-saving light source for your lamp if possible, as these will not get so hot.

Bird feeders

When the ground freezes and nature sinks under a blanket of snow, it’s time to feed the birds by the window, on the balcony or terrace. After a winter, wooden birdhouses are often very dirty – and have to be stowed away over the summer.

If you make your bird feeder out of plastic bottles, you can simply dispose of the house in spring and make a new one for the next winter. It works very easily with a wooden spoon, which you put through the bottle at an angle. So there is always enough food for the birds to fall through the opening (cut large enough!)! Not only the environment but also the animal world are happy about this type of re-use of plastic bottles.

Hanging garden

With an “armada” of plastic bottles, strung on strings, you can beautify boring walls. How about if you planted your garage wall like that?

If you plant evergreen climbing plants such as ivy in the bottles, you can have a green wall permanently! Over time, a thick curtain of leaves will form … In summer, nasturtiums, sweet peas and bindweed, which you can pull from seeds directly in the bottles, are ideal.

curtain

Look at this magical curtain! The “little flowers” are the bottoms of plastic bottles which, when strung on fishing line, make a beautiful curtain. If you don’t have enough bottles for a curtain, make a mobile out of them!

Lanterns

Would you like to decorate with candles on the balcony, in the garden, on the terrace or in the house for a party, celebration or other occasion? So that these are secure and cannot be blown out by the wind, simply build yourself lanterns out of plastic bottles!

You can fill the floor with pebbles, gravel, potting soil, aquarium gravel, bird sand, dried peas, coffee beans, lentils or other things and put tealights or candles in it. Finished! After the party you just throw the lanterns away and make new ones for the next occasion!

Automatic feeder

Would you like to go away for the weekend but have no one to feed your cat? Cut open two plastic bottles as shown in the photo and put them inside each other so that fresh dry food can always slide in from above.

So that your cat does not dismantle the feeder, you can still connect the two bottles with adhesive tape.

Pen cup

What works with cardboard rolls of toilet paper or kitchen paper, of course, also works with plastic bottles! Advantage: the bottom is already there, your bottle-pen-cup is bigger and doesn’t tip over so quickly! Ideal for workshops, hobby rooms and basements!

Etagere

This étagère can be made quickly by threading two or three bottle bottoms onto a sturdy wire (for example from a clothes hanger). Depending on which small parts you want to store in it, you can fix the shelves with adhesive tape.

Ideal for paper clips, pins, thumbtacks, jewelry or as presentation trays for homemade pastries!

Money box

With scraps of fabric, colored paper or cardboard you can make funny piggy bank animals with your children out of plastic bottles. And because the plastic bottles would otherwise end up in the garbage, saving with these money boxes starts with the production!

General purpose container

There are corners in the household where there are always small items, for example coins from trouser pockets before washing, clothespins, earrings in the bathroom, cosmetic probes and more. You can create order with cut open plastic bottles!

Because they are transparent, the containers can also be used to create order in the bathroom, kitchen or handicraft cupboard or to sort screws, nuts and nails in the garage or hobby room.

Disposable hanging basket

You have no space and don’t know where to put the flower pots of your summer balcony flowers in winter ? Just use plastic bottles that you throw in the trash in the fall. When hung on the balcony railing, they are particularly creative.

As you have seen, the re-use of plastic bottles is extremely versatile. So go ahead and start decorating your home in an environmentally friendly way.