Simple ideas to recycle glass bottles

Simple ideas to recycle glass bottles

By Dr. Kyle Muller

The creative recycling of bottles of Crystal can adopt a thousand and one forms. If we decide to save them from finishing at the bottom of the green container, we will discover that creating something useful or transforming them into a decorative object is much easier than we imagined.

There are examples that leave speechless, recycling that are authentic works of art, ingenious and, more of the time, difficult, complicated, if not impossible to imitate. They do not even serve as inspiration, because they require a Skill and tools that are not within our reach.

Fortunately, it is not always the case. There are also surprising and very practical ideas, even fun, which can be done without complicate life, that is, without having to cut the bottles or work with them in a complex way.

Multicolored walls and mosaics

Convert them spectacular mosaics It is a way to give them a new life without complicating ours. To do this, let’s shatter them and use the pieces as a collage, on a fresh cement paste surface, sinking the cutting parts so that it is not dangerous.

If we encourage ourselves to make a murete, we intersperate whole bottles of large size, in geometric disposition. The trick is to make it the thickness of the bottle, letting both extremes stand out to achieve a crystal effect. Ideally, leave the base part on a single side to get a uniform and decorative result.

If you are not for the work of doing masonryyou will get a wonderful result if you stain or forans by sticking to cloth and playing with rope jointly or separately. The partially lined bottles with esparto or raffia rope are great, even macramé type if it is very fine.

Coloring them by filling them with paint and then emptying them is a very simple option and resulta. Doing it with several is a quick way to get precious vases that will be great together, as can be seen in the upper image.

Or, why not, it will be even easier not to touch them and play with different landfills to also achieve a result the Decorative Seaas demonstrates the image that opens the post. And, the simplest option: Let’s take advantage of our good taste to make a beautiful composition of bottles in different shapes and/or colors. They can be perfect without adding anything else or, if we want, let’s fill them with water halfway and place any other Florecitaartificial or natural.

Simple ideas to recycle glass bottles - multicolored walls and mosaics

A beautiful and tidy garden

Reuse bottles in the garden Or in a mini garden you can solve problems of separation of spaces, delimiting areas or creating corridors quickly and decoratively.

It will be as fast and easy as sinking the bottles on Earth so that they do not move or, for example, nail them in cement to dry and get an original gardener (you will see a good example again in the image that opens the post) that will resist the weather for years without problems.

A trick for them bottles have further weight When forming rows it consists of filling them with gravel or gravel, sand or land. Its use as mojones is wide, although we need to accumulate a large number to manage boundaries.

Finally, let’s not forget that the plugs also have many possibilities in the recycling creative. Let’s take the occasion and also save the caps of cork of the bottles of wine and then make useful and decorative crafts: from a mat to a tray or lining frames of photo, paintings or mirrors, let’s put in case. As always, in creative recycling he sends the imagination.

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Kyle Muller
About the author
Dr. Kyle Muller
Dr. Kyle Mueller is a Research Analyst at the Harris County Juvenile Probation Department in Houston, Texas. He earned his Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from Texas State University in 2019, where his dissertation was supervised by Dr. Scott Bowman. Dr. Mueller's research focuses on juvenile justice policies and evidence-based interventions aimed at reducing recidivism among youth offenders. His work has been instrumental in shaping data-driven strategies within the juvenile justice system, emphasizing rehabilitation and community engagement.
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