You could use them as cutters for dough.

Use them as paint wells.

Stick some kind of axle in them and use them as wheels for a homemade toy car.

Use them to cap open pipes or chair legs.

You can also collect them and take them along to the local school or kindergarten for their art/crafts classes. They can use them in their artwork for car wheels etc.

In Portugal, a nurse started to collect them in her hospital to sell them to a recycling company, to buy wheelchairs with the money.
The campaign spread all over the country and since 2004, they have been collecting about 8 tons of caps every year (each ton can raise enough money to pay a couple of wheelchairs).
It’s not unusual to see little boxes made for collecting them in universities, cafés, hospitals or other shops and I think it’s a sign of how a country can get together for a good cause. :)

wow! this is increadible. It is hard to believe that so many people started doing this! I am having trouble persuading colleagues at work to put the recyclable things in a special bin, not in the trash bin! I would love to know how this nurse did it!

there was this girl in my dorm building who was collecting the caps for this cause so almost everybody has been saving their caps. Unfortunately, she has moved and we still have all these bottle caps. She didn’t say where she would send them, so i was wondering if you knew where to send these caps for this good cause.
thanks

Plants come in various plastic planters. When the smaller plant grows I move them up to the next size that I reuse. All have the holes in the bottom, and some are quite large allowing soil and too much water to escape. The caps can be placed over these holes open end down with the new soil to fill the pot holding them in place for prefect drainage.

just collect a lot of caps, drill a little hole and put them on a steel thread just like a necklace, they’ll quiet fot hours and hours..

i use them to make mini pincushions,also a tiny piece of cotton wool glued to top of lid cover with a round piece of fabric,add to different shapes of felt to make piccies.

There’s a guy in Honduras I profiled a few months back (”More construction with PET Bottles”) who constructs houses out of PET bottles, used tire rims and concrete. One of his dilemmas was what to do with the caps. The solution he hit upon is to use the different colors to make decorative mosaics in the concrete, particularly on benches and around arches. To see a photo of what I’m talking about, go to this direct link of the photo. Hope this helps!

now, that’s impressive! I would imagine though it wouldn’t last long if people walk over it…

You can buy your water in glass bottles with aluminum caps and recycle both through the council. Plastic can be recycled but more energy is wasted in the recycling process than if they were to start from scratch.

Stateside, I have found that the thread sizing on most water/soda bottle caps is a perfect fit for washing machine barrel drains. I discovered this as I was trying to angle a washer to examine the motor, only to find that smelly fluid would pour out all over the workspace/house. Unable to relocate to the outdoors, I had to plug it up, and in my dilemma I was struck by what my eye estimated to be a match, protruding from the recycle bin. I couldn’t think of a reason to not try it and was rewarded with a dry operation for my ingenuity.
This may not be the case in the UK, though. Maybe the standardization goes out the window with metrics. I have no idea.

Here it is common to drill or punch (scissors are good enough for this purpose) two holes in each cap, then thread them together is a manner that’ll allow for bottles to still be screwed onto the cap. Attach this brilliant object to your backpack, and now, each time you find a PET bottle on the curb or in the forest or park, you can easily pick it up and attach to this “necklace”. Later, just drop the bottles in an appropriate recycling bin. This is a very eco-friendly advice. You can make those for friends and family. If a variety of colored caps exist in your area, this “necklace” can also be very-very pretty. I would have posted a photo, bt it’s a bit complicated for me at the moment. ENJOY.

Wow I love that! I think that’s awesome and will definitely try it! cheers

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i take two lids, drill a small hole in one, thread a metallic piece of thread through it,then glue another lid to that-threaded side to threaded side. cover seam with lace,cord, trim of choice, add any decorative trims you like, and you have a beautiful ornament.

I saw a website of a company that were making very colourfull plastic sheets for decoration and home and idustry use from recycled plastic. This included plastic lids from the bottles, mobile phone covers, yoghurt pots ets.

Not everything is allowed to be put in the recycling bin for collection, but if look at your council’s website - you will find recycling sites where you can bring things yourself. I do this with aluminium foil.
Even if you don’t find recycling facilities for the type of plastic you want to recycle - just leave it there. If loads of people want to recycle particular items - the council will take the hint eventually and include this in their recycling program.

Another idea - I just came across an interesting webside - they were making really funky bags out of them! have a look! http://www.wow-wow.co.uk/shop/for-living/lifestyle/fashion.html

These bags are amazing -pity they cost £115 !! Maybe someone cleverer than me collects them to do something similar ?I would send my million and one tops to her.

Use them to make a memory game. Put small circle stickers on the flat side with numbers or letters.

You can also buy a reusable bottle and refill it with filtered tap water to cut down the the number of bottles you have

I am a teacher we used the bottle caps with the small stick on foam shapes you can buy at a discount store to make sets of “stamps” for our children to make patterns with or just to practice their fine motor skills.
Stick the foam shape on the top of the lid and you are ready to stamp.

As A fellow teacher, I ‘m interested in this idea but not sure what you mean by the small stick on foam shape?

there are foam shapes that could be found in shapes or letters and she is stating that a small stick of tape could connect it to the bottle cap

use them for a cool craft like a bracelet or neckalace

Have two different color or sizes of caps and make a tic-tic -toe game out of them . For the board you could draw in the sand or use 4 twigs crossed,or draw on the back of junk mail or inside of a cereal box.

In Japan, we collect them, and 800 caps become 20JPY. (app. 20cents). We donate and use the money for the vaccines to save the children. The vaccines will be distributed through a Japanese non-profit organization.

You can send your bottle caps to:

Aveda Re-Cap Program
ACA Waste Services
40 EADS Street
Babylon, NY 11704

Aveda is recycling caps for a new shampoo they are coming out with this fall.

garden enthusiasts pb tops of all shapes and sizes accumulated can be easily stuck together to form trellis for the plants to creep along making a very colourful garden indeed