I'm not sure about the rest of Northampton, but I am starting to experience cabin fever of enormous proportions. I love a good snow fall as much as the next guy, but coupled with sub-zero and single digit temps, I'm going outside only when absolutely necessary!  A friend posted a link to this interesting article on architechturendesign.net depicting 20 ways to repurpose plastic bottles...While, admittedly, some of these projects may be a bit time and labor intensive -- there are some great ideas here. Looking for a fun project to do with your children on yet another snow day? Read on!

 

20 Creative Ways To Reuse Old Plastic Bottles

Posted by MMK

 

DIY recycling projects are always cool, especially when you can turn your trash into something new and useful. We’ve not written any posts about ways to recycle before, but it turns out there’s so much that you can do with recycle plastic bottles that they deserved their own post.

The PET plastic that most plastic beverage bottles are made of is a fairly useful material – it’s resilient, flexible, transparent and food safe. As such, there are probably countless applications for these bottles that will give them second lives. These 20 are a great place to start, but can you think of your own as well?

 

1 | Vertical Garden

 

2 | Chandelier

 

 3 | Broom

 

4 | Beautiful Mosaic From Caps Left By Hurricane Sandy

 

 

5 | Spoon Lamp

 

6 | Jewelry Stand

 

7 | Parking Canopy

 

8 | Bouquet Lamp

 

9 | Christmas Tree

 

10 | Cute Planters