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Becki

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 6293
Location: Devon

Posted: Wed Dec 01, 04 11:18 pm Post subject: Plastic bottles
The council are accepting plastic bottles at the recycling centre in Cheney Manor, Swindon, soon. They are also hoping to put banks in the Haydon Centre and Asda.

jema
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 28248
Location: escaped from Swindon

Posted: Wed Dec 01, 04 11:56 pm Post subject: Re: Plastic bottles

Er indoors wrote:

The council are accepting plastic bottles at the recycling centre in Cheney Manor, Swindon, soon. They are also hoping to put banks in the Haydon Centre and Asda.

That will be good

we have managed to cut down quite a bit on the numbers we buy, but recycling will complement this

jema

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
Posts: 15051
Location: East Midlands

Posted: Thu Dec 02, 04 11:21 am Post subject:
Our council are very good with plastic bottles (although not as good as the one next door, who collect them) but the bins get very, very full. My advice would be to try and go towards the end of the week, on Thursday or Friday, as they get really full at the weekend. Or find out what day they are emptied, and go just after that.

mrsnesbitt

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 1576

Posted: Tue Dec 14, 04 11:03 pm Post subject:
I am making some plastic flowers with my green bottles! Watch this space!!! Our council collect everything but! Dxx

Deedee

Joined: 10 Jan 2005
Posts: 250
Location: Surrey

Posted: Mon Jan 10, 05 8:55 pm Post subject:
I use these a lot for cloches but always had a problem storing them (we dont have fizzy stuff so I have to cadge them all every year) but was wading thru some back issues of kitchen garden the other day and came across a pic,it was just a six foot garden cane stuck in the ground with all the 'cloches' neatly stacked onto it slotting into one another 'doh' why didnt I think of that???

jema
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 28248
Location: escaped from Swindon

Posted: Mon Jan 10, 05 8:57 pm Post subject:

Deedee wrote:

I use these a lot for cloches but always had a problem storing them (we dont have fizzy stuff so I have to cadge them all every year) but was wading thru some back issues of kitchen garden the other day and came across a pic,it was just a six foot garden cane stuck in the ground with all the 'cloches' neatly stacked onto it slotting into one another 'doh' why didnt I think of that???

That sounds like one for the "Jacks hints and tips" forum!

jema

nettie

Joined: 02 Dec 2004
Posts: 5888
Location: Suffolk

Posted: Mon Jan 10, 05 9:12 pm Post subject:
You and me both Deedee. Thanks for the tip re the canes. Every time I open my shed door about 20 bottles fall out on top of me

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
Posts: 15051
Location: East Midlands

Posted: Tue Jan 11, 05 11:35 am Post subject:
If you wanted to keep them in somewhere, you could thread them onto a string. Our council have installed bigger bins for them, but now you can't take the lid off and empty the bag in. You have to post them all individually! Oh well.....

Annemieke

Joined: 26 Feb 2013
Posts: 131
Location: Somerset UK

Posted: Fri Mar 01, 13 10:00 am Post subject:
My granddaughter has found another way to reuse bottles. According to my daughter it was supposed to be a (very easy-going) cat, though the filmer seems to think it was a dog. Of course it may be a whole new breed of animal. Not too expensive to feed, anyway! See https://geoffdellow.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/different.html

sickpup

Joined: 19 Jun 2008
Posts: 164
Location: Amble,Northumberland

Posted: Thu Feb 20, 14 10:30 pm Post subject:
i use them as clotches, and i have just started on a project building a greenhouse with them and old pallets. its going to take about 1400 2 litre bottles so if anyone in northumberland has any i'll gladly take them off your hands

bobs

Joined: 02 Feb 2014
Posts: 105
Location: somerset

Posted: Fri Feb 21, 14 11:28 am Post subject:
the school my boys go to have made greenhouses from plastic bottles

pollyanna

Joined: 03 Nov 2012
Posts: 221

Posted: Fri Feb 21, 14 1:55 pm Post subject:
Anybody that visits the Botanic Garden of Wales can view one there - unless it has been blown away recently.

cir3ngirl

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 4846
Location: Cirencester

Posted: Sat Feb 22, 14 4:05 pm Post subject:
How to make a broom out of plastic bottles https://cdn.viralnova.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/upcycling-1.jpg

bodrighy

Joined: 15 Aug 2008
Posts: 2159
Location: Near Devizes

Posted: Sat Feb 22, 14 4:24 pm Post subject:

cir3ngirl wrote:

How to make a broom out of plastic bottles

https://cdn.viralnova.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/upcycling-1.jpg

But does it fly?

Pete

Flamin'Panda

Joined: 09 Feb 2014
Posts: 464
Location: Azores

Posted: Sat Feb 22, 14 4:40 pm Post subject:
And for those in somerset... https://beforeitsnews.com/green-living/2013/06/9-examples-of-plastic-bottle-boats-2447570.html

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