This week’s Tuesday Tip, many uses for plastic bottles. Don’t want to recycle all of your plastic bottles? Creative ideas for reusing plastic milk jugs and soda bottles.
Tip #19: Creative uses for plastic bottles and jugs!
Reusing plastic bottles and jugs can save money on everyday items.
- Need some small containers to start a garden? Cut the top off a plastic soda bottle, cut a couple of small holes in the bottom of the bottle and use the base as a container to grow some sprouts.
- Now that the tops of your soda bottles are cut off….use the tops as an inexpensive funnel.
- Refill your old milk jugs with water and freeze them. Old freezers will thank you for it by running cooler and using less energy.
- Need an inexpensive piggy bank? This idea I found online. Basically, glue empty thread spools for the legs, cut a slit on the top as the bottle sits sideways, decorate the cap for the nose and glue on construction paper for ears and googly eyes.
Repurposing plastic bottles is good for the environment.
- Unlike aluminum cans, plastic bottles take more energy to recycle. Repurposing plastics and finding ways to use them once their initial purpose if fulfilled is a much friendlier way to extend their life than discarding them.
Have you repurposed plastic bottles? Do you have some terrific ideas to add?
3 Comments
I love that funnel idea!!! Thanks!
@Budgeting in the Fun Stuff – You’re welcome!
@Money Reasons – Great tips! I’m thinking that if Walmart gives you the milk jug back after recycling the oil, you might be able to use it for oil again. I’m not how that would work. Thanks for the tip on deflating the plastic jugs, saves space.
I’ve used milk jugs as a storage containers for used oil from my lawnmower and snow thrower. Once it get’s full enough I plan on taking the container to Walmart where they will recycle the oil. I’m not sure what I will do with the milk jug at that point, if they give it back.
I know this isn’t related, but I deflate my plastic containers before throwing them in the trash! This saves on plastic trash bags because I can pack more trash in the trash bag. You’d think this would be common sense, but none of my neighbors do this, so their trash cans are always overflowing on trash pickup day, while mine is half empty.