What are some creative, novel, useful, profitable, interesting, etc. ideas for empty bottles?

Question

Any empty bottle ideas are good. Gatorade and water bottle ideas would be the most useful because they are the easiest to aquire, but I'm fairly resourceful for finding others.

Answer 1

You can make doll bodies from plastic bottles (they pinch in easily for a waist when they are soft.) Bent twigs,(with "elbows" & "knees",) make good arms & legs to affix.
I have seen bottles filled with water & pushed upside down next to plants, to keep the ground moist.
I have seen shoulder pads made from plastic bottles in theatrical costumes.
And they make good seedling cups for selling at fetes. etc.
Some people fill them with variegated coloured sand or bath salts as gifts.
Small jars with a few holes punched in the sides are good for putting mothballs in too.
It's wise to label them though, & permanently seal, so they will not to be mistaken for lollies.

Answer 2

The easiest resourceful use is as a flower vase. Other things you can do: Cut the Gatorade bottle in half with a knife. Smooth it around the top because even plastic can get a funky edge after you cut it. You now have a resourceful cup holder, snack holder, ash tray, or coin toss bank. By the way, working with plastic is easier in this instance. When you cut glass, you need a glss cutter (usually found at a hobby shop and a special tool from same hobby shop) to keep it from breaking as you cut it. Glass can be weird sometimes. When the manufacturer of the product decided what strength of glass they wanted--logic says thicker glass makes a product higher--they sometimes are thinking of the economy that the consumers of their products will experience and go for thinner glass. Thin glass will crack and break easier. Even if you find glass that feels heavier--it contains a little lead--use caution. Follow the same proceedure. If you get glass splinters in your hands, eyes (you can use goggles, but the quirkest things can happen sometimes), or other parts of your body because glass flew at least if a visit to the doc or an ER are required it's not negligence--you did all you could.

Answer 3

I remember a room divider made of wine bottles. They were cemented together to fill a space from a former counter-top to the ceiling. In general, glass bottles can be construction elements, but plastic ones tend to be too soft. I also had a bud vase once which had been made from a soda bottle that was heated in the neck and stretched. I know you can cut bottles to make glass items, like putting the neck underneath to be the stem of a glass, or of a candle holder. And broken pieces of bottle glass, possibly in different colors, could be a mosaic element, like on the Watts Towers.

Answer 4

you can make a raft by lashing them together - fun project with no commercial value.
in some countries they use the empty bottles to create fabric - they shred the bottles and then spin them into fabric. it makes a woolly kind of fabric. good for blankets and coats.

Answer 5

I suggest recycling...especially if you're in California..because then you'll get 4 cents for each one! As for craft ideas, I've seen them employed for candles and sand art. Enjoy!

Answer 6

Gravity bongs.

Answer 7

you can recycle..them.get a job dont waste your time collecting them..

Answer 8

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