Although we try to reduce the consumption of plastic at home, there is always something that we have to end up buying. If you have plastic bottles at home, you can deposit them in the yellow container for recycling.
And you can also keep some to make some very original planters for your house or your terrace.
We tell you how in today’s article.
The importance of recycling plastic at home
As you know, there are small gestures that we can do on a daily basis to reduce the impact and consumption of plastic at home.
Use cloth bags instead of plastic bags, replace plastic with glass whenever possible or use disposable cardboard cutlery when we have a barbecue with friends, for example.
But it is true that we cannot completely banish plastic from our lives and that is where recycling comes into play.
It is very important that all the plastic that we consume at home and is likely to be recycled, we recycle it.
Either depositing it in the corresponding container, the yellow one in this case, or reusing it at home for some purpose.
Homemade pots made from plastic bottles
In this case we suggest you make some planters for your home or to decorate your terrace from plastic bottles.
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If you have a plastic bottle of water or soft drink at home, it will be perfect for this craft.
Take note and we’ll tell you how.
Necessary materials:
- A plastic bottle (water or soft drink will do).
- Paint in case we want to paint the bottle of some color, although we can also leave it transparent.
- A marker.
- Scissors.
- Soil for plants.
- The plants that we want to place in the pot.
- A piece of string or cloth to decorate.
- Pebbles to decorate.
- Four small doorstops to act as legs for our planter.
Steps to make the pot
- First of all, we measure and mark where we are going to cut the bottle. In this case we are going to cut it horizontally.
- We cut the bottle.
- We remove the label from the bottle.
- We can leave it as it is transparent so that the soil in the pot is visible or we can paint it with a color that we like.
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- We glue the stops at the bottom as legs.
- To decorate the cap, we tie a piece of string or a piece of fabric that we like.
- We put the land.
- We put the plants.
- We can put some pebbles above the ground as a decoration.
We already have our planter ready! we can make as many as we want and paint them in different colors.
Share with us your crafts with which you recycle plastic at home.
