Hope!! Upcycled Plastic Bottles & Bags: Unique & Beautiful Art
Who would accept idea a plastic pocketbook or a plastic H2O or soda bottle could live upcycled into something too hence unique too beautiful? Check out these unique upcycled products made yesteryear talented artists too I intend you'll handgrip that i person's trash tin definitely live some other person's treasure.
unique flowers made from the bottoms of soda bottles (above too below) by Michelle Brand
What is PET?
PET aka polyethylene terephthalate is a highly recyclable plastic production made from oil. It is what H2O bottles too soda bottles are made from. Above is the recycling classification grade that is shown on the bottoms of bottles too other PET products. These products should ever live recycled.
2-liter bottle boxes (above too below) yesteryear Zitta Schnitt
Plastic bottle tabular array light yesteryear SarahTurnerEcoDesign via Etsy
DIY How to construct "wire" from plastic bottles for occupation inward jewelry too crafts
Handbags made from recycled plastic bags
Recycled plastic pocketbook chickens
and snakes
Lampshade made from recycled plastic bags yesteryear Zipper8Lighting via Etsy
Mandala made from plastic bags yesteryear Virginia Fleck
Tote made from fused plastic bags yesteryear Lousupcycles via Etsy
Landfill decomposition rates:
Milk carton: 5 years
Plastic milk jug: 500 years
Aluminum can: fourscore to 200 years
Plastic drinking bottles: hundreds of years
Plastic bags: hundreds of years
Cigarette butt: upward to 5 years & leaches toxins into the ground
Newspaper: 2 to 4 weeks or longer
Glass bottles: tens of thousands of years
Styrofoam: no sign of ever breaking down
(figures from ecocomic.com)
What produce you lot think?
I promise you lot accept a nifty week
Love, Laura
My broken china jewelry is ever available for purchase
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