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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:

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

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 16061

Posted: Sun Feb 23, 14 6:18 am Post subject:
All this assumes you use plastic bottles. We don't, except for milk bottles, so a bit limiting. Some of the ideas look good, but not sure about some of those boats.

Flamin'Panda

Joined: 09 Feb 2014
Posts: 464
Location: Azores

Posted: Sun Feb 23, 14 6:21 am Post subject:
Uh oh, no plastic bottles, crickey, you will drown without a plastic bottle boat... Thus I conclude that plastic bottles will save humanity...

gregotyn

Joined: 24 Jun 2010
Posts: 2201
Location: Llanfyllin area

Posted: Tue Feb 25, 14 2:52 pm Post subject:
That's me doomed then, Flamin Panda, I don't even know what spam is in relation to a pooter-thought it was a tinned meat.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46296
Location: yes

Posted: Tue Feb 25, 14 7:54 pm Post subject:

Flamin'Panda wrote:

do i remember a chap making an ocean voyage on a bottle boat ?

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 16061

Posted: Wed Feb 26, 14 7:29 am Post subject:
Well ocean voyages have been made on balsa wood rafts and reed boats so why not.

Flamin'Panda

Joined: 09 Feb 2014
Posts: 464
Location: Azores

Posted: Wed Feb 26, 14 8:12 am Post subject:
Yup a transat was done in a plastic bottle boat. But then if you throw a bottle in the sea in the Canary islands, it will wash up in the Caribbean anyway.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46296
Location: yes

Posted: Wed Feb 26, 14 6:09 pm Post subject:
eventually i spose they do , much like maine lobster pots reaching cornwall the sailor must have had plenty of bottle though

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