DIY Inspiration. Bottle Animals. Recycled water and detergent bottles made into animal lights - but are really cool sculptures on their own.
Pictured: Lights from ABYU lighting.
See also: Earlier Unconsumption posts highlighting two artists’ takes on uses for empty detergent bottles: Bill Culbert’s lights here, and Martine Camillieri’s toy trucks here.
Interesting product, the idea is to use colored cardboard cut-outs with a bottle or glass of your choice, converting into a “geometric vase.” More here: Design Milk
Bolivian Ingrid Vaca Diez is on a mission to improve the housing situation for the poor in her country by using plastic bottles—the only material she can find in abundance—to build surprisingly sturdy houses.
The self-taught designer of these “garbage homes” fills recycled plastic bottles with dirt and uses them as bricks to construct her innovative houses.
To date, she has built ten such homes for poverty-stricken families.
More (including video segment): Innovative ‘Garbage’ Houses Made Of Recycled Plastic Bottles - DesignTAXI.com
It’s wine o’clock somewhere, which means it’s time to share a wine-related repurposing find.
Today’s item: Wine bottles turned into wind chimes.
(via GroovyGreenGlass on Etsy)
More in Unconsumption’s wine o’clock series can be found here.
Save wine bottles, make your own tables.
Simply insert bottles in to openings in pieces of wood. In addition to use as table tops, the pieces of wood (in this case, they’re scrap wood sealed with a wax finish) can function as serving trays.
Brazilian designer Tati Guimarães designed this collection. We featured her metal frame that holds corks — for use as trivets, or to hang on a wall — on Unconsumption here (way back in June 2009!). Check out her site, Ciclus, for additional information.
See also: Earlier Unconsumption post on shelving made from wine bottles and pieces of wood.
For other items in Unconsumption’s wine o’clock series — an occasional series of posts highlighting examples of wine-related repurposing — browse here.
American artist Bart Vargas’s ”Bottleballs,” salvaged plastic bottles glued onto cardboard globes.
Did you know?
In 2010, the United States generated almost 14 million tons of plastics as containers and packaging, almost 11 million tons as durable goods, such as appliances, and almost 7 million tons as nondurable goods, for example plates and cups.
Only 8 percent of the total plastic waste generated in 2010 was recovered for recycling.
[Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. More info in this EPA fact sheet here.]
If you’ve ever tried cutting into a plastic bottle, you know that it sometimes isn’t an easy thing to do.
That said, check out these vessels/vases. Amazing, really.
Would you have guessed that they’re made from plastic bottles?
(via Decoracaodegarrafas)
A good use for empty wine bottles. (Taken with Instagram at HCAF Point Theater)
As many of you who are connected with Unconsumption’s Facebook page know, I (Molly) recently visited Schreiner University (in Kerrville, Texas) to talk to students about upcycling.
While in the area, I spotted a couple of cool reuse examples, including this bottle tree on the grounds of the Hill Country Arts Foundation.
(If you like this bottle tree, check out others in earlier Unconsumption posts here, and more wine-related repurposing here.)
Happy wine o’clock (somewhere)!
Japanese design studio nendo has worked with Coca-Cola to create ‘Bottleware‘, tableware made from glass Coca-Cola bottles that have deteriorated over the course of extensive recycling.
The material has been upcycled to make dishes and bowls that retain and enhance the distinctive lower shape and greenish-blue glass, as well as the ridges on the bottom.
![It’s wine o’clock (somewhere), which means it’s time to share a wine-related repurposing find.
Today: Empty wine bottles used as decorations.
Photo via Ashbee Design, which provides bottle-painting tips.
[Note: To make “candy corn” bottles, Ashbee Design uses aerosol paint, which I (Molly) am not a big fan of using. If you do use spray paint, consider looking for low-VOC varieties.]
See also:
Wine bottles painted to look like jack-o-lanterns.
Some earlier Unconsumption posts on Halloween-related repurposing.
More posts in Unconsumption’s wine o’clock series.
Creative new uses for spray cans, including upcycling them into lamps (here and here), flowers (here), and radios (here).
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It’s wine o’clock (somewhere), which means it’s time to share a wine-related repurposing find.
Today: Empty wine bottles used as decorations.
Photo via Ashbee Design, which provides bottle-painting tips.
[Note: To make “candy corn” bottles, Ashbee Design uses aerosol paint, which I (Molly) am not a big fan of using. If you do use spray paint, consider looking for low-VOC varieties.]
See also:
- Wine bottles painted to look like jack-o-lanterns.
- Some earlier Unconsumption posts on Halloween-related repurposing.
- More posts in Unconsumption’s wine o’clock series.
- Creative new uses for spray cans, including upcycling them into lamps (here and here), flowers (here), and radios (here).
Cheers!
