Comments on: How can I reuse or recycle the bottoms of fizzy drink bottles?

By: Sandy

Sandy — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 21:10:31 +0000

I cut the bottoms off (stick them cut side down in soil) and use them as small decorative stepping stones in the garden or if you have a plant that is a little invasive and you want to keep it in control then I place these bottoms around the plants making sure there is plenty of room to water the plant. Clear or colored bottles work fine. You will have little weeds growing inside them but this only makes them more interesting and adds a little color to the clear plastic.

By: Jodie

Jodie — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 11:02:40 +0000

All Ecological consultancies are in need of 2L plastic bottles for amphibian surveys. We collect them all year and never seem to have enough – I’d recommend finding a local environmental/ecological consultancy and it’s likely they’d be very grateful for your bottles! The IEEM website has a list of companies to help you find a local one.

By: Jane

Jane — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 02:33:32 +0000

i will give that one a try thank you

By: Bad Monkey

Bad Monkey — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 02:31:58 +0000

Use it as a paper log maker.Cut the bottom off the large bottles, leave the lid on for time being, in meantime, soak torn up newspapers in bucket of water, overnight preferably, then next day squeeze the “mush” into the bottle, when 1/4 full take the lid off and keep filling the bottle from the cut end, and force the water out with fist or suitable plunger.When full and you have as much water as you can out,cut the bottle lengthways to ease out your log and leave it to dry thoroughly.

By: louisa

louisa — Sat, 10 May 2008 11:31:06 +0000

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 :) )

By: Peat

Peat — Fri, 09 May 2008 22:39:24 +0000

I’ll try again:
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By: Peat

Peat — Fri, 09 May 2008 22:35:16 +0000

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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By: Binkie

Binkie — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:08:31 +0000

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 !

By: Vanessa

Vanessa — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 06:50:45 +0000

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

By: Kaz

Kaz — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 13:52:50 +0000

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.

By: Katz

Katz — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:02:20 +0000

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.

By: Tonya

Tonya — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 18:09:35 +0000

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

By: Andreas

Andreas — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:09:15 +0000

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

By: Margo

Margo — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 00:20:05 +0000

neither of the links that Katz suggested worked.

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 04:04:06 +0000

Thanks for those links Katz, love those flower petals.

By: james

james — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 06:02:23 +0000

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.

By: Katz

Katz — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 14:23:34 +0000

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