I don’t know how it will work patent-wise (not sure if the designer has patented the invention, but here is what i found on the net, and has been collecting plastic bottles bottoms ever since, as I want to make the same one!
http://fabulouslygreen.blogspot.com/2007/05/michelle-brands-petal-power.html

Oh, and I’ll throw this link in as well, as this is cool too! http://fabulouslygreen.blogspot.com/2006/09/design-inspiration-water-office.html

Here’s a great Idea I got from my aunt. Any soda bottle, cups, yogurt cups etc can be filled with a little soil and used to grow plants in. Make sure you puncture the base with a few holes to allow water to flow through.

Thanks for those links Katz, love those flower petals.

neither of the links that Katz suggested worked.

Hi there - I’ve encountered the same problem, but you can work around this by simply starting from the main page and clicking your way through. Or try this one:

http://www.michellebrand.co.uk/pages/portfolio.html
and this is the other one
http://fabulouslygreen.blogspot.com/2006_09_01_archive.html

Regards, Andreas

Hi Margo! try to copy whole link and paste it into a browser, because links may not work directly from the page in older browsers if they separated into 2 or more lines.

I use them to put water in then put them in the freezer ,,,,,

You can make a lacewing refuge out of the upper part of the bottle (http://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/factsheets/gg13.php), to encourage them to hang around your garden and eat the greenfly. You can also fill the bottles with water and put tiny holes along the sides, and partially bury them in the garden so that they slowly keep the soil moist.

Without meaning to sound rude, perhaps the best thing is just not to buy bottled water and fizzy drinks. Tap water’s better regulated, and filters are easily come by.

I use that to plant my small plants. Just fill it with soil and plant it.

I use the bottoms of bottles as mini-greenhouses. Simply put them over small pots of germinating seeds or cuttings. They let light through, and keep moisture in !

Pop bottles make great wasp traps. Cut the bottle into 2 about 1/3 of the way down (just after the cone at the top) and stuff this up into the other half. Fill it with juice, water and honey, or beer and hang it. The idea is the wasps fly up and into the trap, smelling the delicious “bait” and can’t figure out how to get out to sting you.

My Explanation may suck, so here’s a low rez graphic of the finished product: (note the bee’s flying around trapped, but drunk)
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I’ll try again:
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Our fault for not having fixed width fonts here I’m afraid. It came out right in my email program though - here’s a pic of what Peat meant ;)

(Btw, this made me laugh so hard when I saw it - great ASCII effort, Peat :) )