DIY: Recycling & Reusing Plastic : Part I

If there was stone age, iron age, and bronze age, then today is the plastic age. Everything is made out of plastic. But the unsolvable problem of plastic has created an alarming issue these days. From grocery to furniture to surgery, plastic elements, plastic food containers, plastic bottles, plastic bags etc are very common components which we use for one time and throw out without even thinking that how much problem it may cause. We are literally living in the age of plastic.

Plastic is light and durable but it is not biodegradable and takes a lot of energy to make. So why we'll waste so much energy and resources. Here the best possible way to recover these wasted energy and resources is to recycle them.

According to wikipedia "Plastic recycling is the process of recovering scrap or waste plastic and reprocessing the material into useful products, sometimes completely different in form from their original state. For instance, this could mean melting down soft drink bottles and then casting them as plastic chairs and tables."

Here I'm going to show you some plastic recycling ideas that you can do at your home hassle free and with a few resources. 

• Reusing Plastic Bottles as Food Containers:

Plastic bottle is constructed of plastic. We typically use them to store liquids such as water, soft drinks, cooking oil, medicine, shampoo etc. 

Plastic water or soft drink bottles are easily reusable. We can use them as a container to store grocery products. It helps to cut down our cost of buying expensive food containers as well as utilizing the used materials for good. 

• Room divider Curtain:

The bottom of the bottle can be used as beautiful and creative room divider.

• Plastic Spoon Mirror Frame: 

• Plastic Drinking Straw:

Jello shooter worms !......Best Halloween worms jello idea.

• Plastic Bottle Vertical Planter:

• Use Bottle Bottom in Art Work:

• Bottle Bottom Chandelier:

• Recycled Milk Jug Shovel: