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Use What You Have-Recycling Water Bottles

March 11, 2008 By Jenn @ Frugal Upstate 3 Comments

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Browsing around on “Groovy Green” this morning I found links to a couple of neat ideas for using those ubiquitous single serving water bottles. I personally don’t buy them often, and hate the fact that they don’t have a deposit in the state of NY. Sigh.

Here is a neat instructable for making a self watering seed starter/planter out of a water bottle. Of course, you could probably do something similar out of a 2 liter type bottle, covering the exterior somehow. . . *

There is a photo of a plastic waterbottle cover made out of felt that turns it into a vase. This looks like it would be pretty easy to make-but you might have to weight down the water bottle with some gravel or something for stability.

Make.com has a long list of ideas for recycling water bottles-including one for using a bottle to keep your yarn from tangling that caught my eye:

photo by ccyytt via flickr.com

Hope you enjoy browsing around!

*hmmm-notice all that neat stuff listed in the sidebar under “related ideas”. . . “colander hydrophonics”, “easy cheap earthbox”, “how to save water in the garden”. . . I could spend a lot of time around here.

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  1. Anonymous says

    March 11, 2008 at 2:51 pm

    Great ideas. They also make good children’s banks, crafts (such as as toy phone),lotion bottle to decorate for gifts and more. Annette

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  2. Jenn @ Frugal Upstate says

    March 12, 2008 at 2:30 pm

    Good ideas!

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