I've been up in our loft laying glass fibre - made
of old plastic bottles.
Not exact matches
We have collected over 40 easy, fun and engaging crafts for toddlers and preschoolers to create this Halloween and they all share the same start point: All
of these Halloween crafts are created using items we trash every day — toilet and tissue paper rolls, paper plates, egg cartons,
plastic bottles, lids and cups, popsicle sticks,
old CDs or DVDs, cardboard boxes and metal lids!
Dirty
old gum wrappers,
plastic bottles, and
plastic spoons litter the grounds
of the park that sits in the parking lot
of the Westchester County Center in White Plains.
They talked about devising ways to turn
old or used vehicle tires into comfortable chairs,
plastic bottles into pencil cases, pieces
of fabrics they collected from tailoring shops into fashion products and sachets
of fibers into linens for fashion products to make them water - proof.
Laying against two
of the five trash gates were assorted
bottles, cans and
plastic bags, an
old hiking boot, an overturned mail crate and a metal crutch.
The recommendations, in addition to flying less and wasting 25 percent less food, include: carpooling or telecommuting once a week (75 million metric tons
of CO2 equivalent (CO2e) saved by 2020, if adopted by all Americans); maintaining your car or truck, such as keeping tires properly inflated (45 million metric tons
of CO2e); cutting the time spent idling in a vehicle in half (40 million metric tons
of CO2e); better insulation at home (85 million metric tons
of CO2e); programmable thermostats set higher (80 million metric tons
of CO2e); reducing electricity demand from appliances that are «off,» so - called phantom demand (70 million metric tons CO2e); using hot water more efficiently, such as washing clothes in colder water (65 million metric tons
of CO2e); buying EnergyStar appliances when
old ones wear out (55 million metric tons CO2e); replacing incandescent lightbulbs with compact fluorescents (30 million metric tons CO2e); eating chicken instead
of beef two days a week (105 million metric tons
of CO2e); increased recycling
of paper,
plastics and metals (105 million metric tons
of CO2e); «responsible» consumption, such as buying less
bottled water (60 million metric tons CO2e).
All we needed to do was: remove five walls, rip out the
old carpet and replace it with new one made out
of recycled
plastic bottles, add bathrooms and showers along with changing rooms, create office space, purchase a new pellet stove to heat the room, add new walls, install full length mirrors, create a desk and benches and much more!
Sixteen - year -
old Kiera Wilmot
of Bartow High School wanted to see what would happen when she combined several household products in a
plastic bottle...
*** These activities also require additional materials which are easy to come by:
Plastic water bottles (4 per group) Plastic soda bottles (1 per group) Plastic cups (16 per group) Small rocks (2 - 3 cups per group) Sand (2 - 3 cups per group) Old t - shirts (1 per group) Dirt (1 large Ziploc bag per group) Variety of edible plant seeds, at least 8 different kinds (tomato, lettuce, etc...) Salt (1 large container per group) Sticks (10 per group) String (1 roll per group) Roll of plastic trash bags (1 bag per group) Duct tape (1 roll per group) Foam pool noodles (1 per group) Poster board (1 per group) Rubber bands (5 - 10 per group) A container large enough to hold water for testing floatation (ideally 1 per group but can be just 1 for the class) *** Please make sure to rate and leave fe
Plastic water
bottles (4 per group)
Plastic soda bottles (1 per group) Plastic cups (16 per group) Small rocks (2 - 3 cups per group) Sand (2 - 3 cups per group) Old t - shirts (1 per group) Dirt (1 large Ziploc bag per group) Variety of edible plant seeds, at least 8 different kinds (tomato, lettuce, etc...) Salt (1 large container per group) Sticks (10 per group) String (1 roll per group) Roll of plastic trash bags (1 bag per group) Duct tape (1 roll per group) Foam pool noodles (1 per group) Poster board (1 per group) Rubber bands (5 - 10 per group) A container large enough to hold water for testing floatation (ideally 1 per group but can be just 1 for the class) *** Please make sure to rate and leave fe
Plastic soda
bottles (1 per group)
Plastic cups (16 per group) Small rocks (2 - 3 cups per group) Sand (2 - 3 cups per group) Old t - shirts (1 per group) Dirt (1 large Ziploc bag per group) Variety of edible plant seeds, at least 8 different kinds (tomato, lettuce, etc...) Salt (1 large container per group) Sticks (10 per group) String (1 roll per group) Roll of plastic trash bags (1 bag per group) Duct tape (1 roll per group) Foam pool noodles (1 per group) Poster board (1 per group) Rubber bands (5 - 10 per group) A container large enough to hold water for testing floatation (ideally 1 per group but can be just 1 for the class) *** Please make sure to rate and leave fe
Plastic cups (16 per group) Small rocks (2 - 3 cups per group) Sand (2 - 3 cups per group)
Old t - shirts (1 per group) Dirt (1 large Ziploc bag per group) Variety
of edible plant seeds, at least 8 different kinds (tomato, lettuce, etc...) Salt (1 large container per group) Sticks (10 per group) String (1 roll per group) Roll
of plastic trash bags (1 bag per group) Duct tape (1 roll per group) Foam pool noodles (1 per group) Poster board (1 per group) Rubber bands (5 - 10 per group) A container large enough to hold water for testing floatation (ideally 1 per group but can be just 1 for the class) *** Please make sure to rate and leave fe
plastic trash bags (1 bag per group) Duct tape (1 roll per group) Foam pool noodles (1 per group) Poster board (1 per group) Rubber bands (5 - 10 per group) A container large enough to hold water for testing floatation (ideally 1 per group but can be just 1 for the class) *** Please make sure to rate and leave feedback.
affix a piece
of clear tubing to the bleed nipple, and run the other end
of the clear tubing into a small
plastic bottle or other suitable container to hold the
old brake fluid.
Keep your car clean and organized with easy food storage tricks, like keeping celery or pretzels in a half - empty jar
of peanut butter, putting dry snacks in
old coffee creamer
bottles, and using a
plastic cereal container as a small trashcan.
We returned home at night, carrying bits
of the
old city back with us in
plastic bags filled with roasted almonds and Turkish delight, in the green - glass
bottle of jasmine attar Masa had bought for Masi from a local perfumery.
I also give my puppies
old plastic soda
bottles (the PET
plastic kind) since when they carry them around and crunch on them they make a lot
of noise.
These sites ironically repurposed
old plastic soda
bottles to aid in the production
of luxury goods.
Lots
of the things you use every day at home can be recycled when you've finished with them - like
old magazines and comics, empty food tins and
plastic shampoo
bottles.
From your recycling bin: • two 2L pop
bottles (I used Coke Zero) • mouth was
bottle • two shampoo or conditioner
bottles (
plastic deodorant containers may work too) • round
plastic dip or spread container • thin cardboard from cereal boxes or something similar • paper towel tube From the thrift store or the back
of your closet: •
old purse with brown faux - leather straps From the craft store, hardware store or your supply cabinet: • scissors and x-acto knife • glue gun and glue sticks • white glue • masking tape • wire • spray primer • spackling paste • silver spray paint • craft paint in bronze, pewter and black • paint brushes
Materials used include eight hundred pallets and 750 square metres
of plywood, board offcuts, dismantled poles and battens, rickety tables, freight palettes,
old theatre sets, empty
plastic water - cooler
bottles... and other sheet material.
Walk down the street in urban China clutching an empty water
bottle (necessary
of course due to water quality and bad plumbing) and in no time an
old lady will show up seemingly out
of nowhere, hands and eyes hungrily intent on taking your
plastic.
To make it easy, I poured 2
bottles of paint and 1
bottle of fabric medium into an
old plastic container and mixed them together with my sponge brush.