How can I reuse or recycle … plastic cups?

Thu 6 Jul 2006

How can I reuse or recycle … plastic cups?

Plastic cups A suggestion from Franto:

My office has a water cooler with a supply of plastic cups. I don’t go anywhere near it and fill my glass from the tap but my work colleagues seem to use a new cup for each sip of water they take, the bin is always over following with the damn things. I want to rescue them but don’t know what to do with them.

These people seem to collect plastic cups from workplaces in bulk so that might be an idea - but has anyone got any reuse suggestions?

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You could grow seedlings in them before planting them out in your garden/allotment.

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You could get this phonograph kit and make recordings on them:
http://verycoolthings.com/vct/Neo_getpage.cgi?page=itemtoy&itemID=13463&cool=

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you can make some pretty cool geometric art out of plastic cups.

examples:

http://www.instructables.com/id/EP65RCD75LEP2LL7ER/

http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/04/material_seduction_plastic_cup.html

http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/08/make_podcast_weekend_projects_3.html

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you could donate a personal glass to your colleagues so they won’t throw cups away any more!

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I love this project!
http://www.cutoutandkeep.net/projects/sparkleball

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[…] sleeve around the cup. I’m always a fan of reusing cups when possible (we’ve already covered the plastic variety on the site) but not specifically thought about the ridged cardboard sleeves so common on takeout […]

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I work for a company which re-uses the .25cups for mixing chemicals after using for the water from our cooler. However at the moment, after sourcing a new cooler with smaller .2cups we have a need for the larger cups to allow for the mixing so would like to find a company in order to obtain and re-use theirs and in turn help the environment,can anyone help? Kay.

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