Don’t Throw Plastic Bottles Away Any More

You can make your own bricks easily at your compound of home. These eco-bricks can be used in building of green house, big flower pot, fence and many others. I would share the steps of making a beautiful fence wall in your garden here. The materials that you are needed are plastic bottles, cement and string.

Steps:

1. Make a foundation.

2. Collect bottles and dry abode soil. (Depend the size of your fence wall)

3. Make a mixture of water, soil, and 3% cement. Put the mixture into the bottles.

4. Gather the bottles that have been baked under the sun for 12 hours.

5. Start layering the bottles with cement. String is used to keep the bottles in place.

6. Apply and smooth out a bit more cement on the walls.

This solar bottle light bulb is introduced by Illac Diaz of MyShether Foundation. I found this light bulb is special. So I would share this with you all. The operation of this solar bottle light bulb does not need electricity but the operation of this bulb is based on Physics theory, light refraction.

Why do we not make Perspex skylight? This is because a large amount of lights will enter inside such as chicken coop and increase the temperature inside the coop. So this solar bottle light bulb is the best way to emit light in maximum inside the coop instead of increasing the temperature. You can make it easily and attach it to the roof of your animal pen such as chicken pen. This light bulb can bright up your animal coop. This is a good idea for poultry farmers because they can use this light bulb bright up their poultry coops during the day. Therefore, they can see clearly during collecting the eggs after installation of these light bulbs. In addition, farmers can save their money because they do not need switch on the electrical light bulbs during the day. You can make this light bulb yourself by following the steps below.

1) Prepare one 1.5 liter plastic soda bottle, 1' X 1' roof sheet material, purified water, liquid chlorine and rubber sealant.

2) Fill the bottle with purified water. Then add 3 tablespoons of liquid chlorine and tightly seal the cap. Reminder : Do not use tap water because the water may contain algae spores and they will grow.

3) Make a hole in the root sheet material, just the same size of the bottle's circumference and insert the bottom part of the bottle. Leave it to be exposed under sunlight.

4) Make another hole on the roof of your chicken pen (same as bottle circumference) where you want to install the solar bulb and fix it firmly.

5) Seal the roof with sealant to prevent rain drops from entering the coop. It will emit light inside your coop.

You can make a mosquito trap by using a plastic bottle. After that, you do not need to spend money to buy aerosol insecticides to kill mosquitoes. Besides, this can save the ozone layer as usage of aerosol insecticides is reduced.

Steps of making a mosquito trap:

1. Prepare one plastic bottle, brown sugar, water and yeast.

2. Cut a plastic bottle in half, keep both parts.

3. Take the lower portion of the bottle. Dissolve the brown sugar in hot water. Let it cool down to ~70 degree F.

4. Add the yeast .

5. Cover the bottle with a black paper and place the top portion upside down like a funnel. Place it in a corner in your house.

6. In 2 weeks you will be surprised by the number of mosquitoes killed.

How do this mosquito trap work?

The brown sugar is the food for the yeast to make the yeast grow as much as possible. During the process, carbon dioxide is released just like human respiration. Then, mosquitoes will be attracted to the mosquito trap. In conclusion, this mosquito trap acts as a human.

You can make planters using plastic bottles and plant lush green vegetables such as lettuce and many more. You also can hang the planters on the wall as decoration as shown in the picture.

Steps:

1) Prepare plastic bottles, string, small knife, puncher, soil and seeds.

2) Make an opening on the body of plastic bottles. (As shown in the pictures)

3) Punch some holes at the bottom of the plastic bottles to allow excess water to flow out.

4) Punch two holes at the opening and tie the string.

5) Fill the plastic bottles with soil and sow some seeds.

6) Hang the vegetable planters on the wall carefully.

7) Harvest your vegetables on time.

Sometimes we are troubled in detaching rubber band at the opening of plastic bags. So, we can use plastic bottles to seal plastic bags which containing dry food. This prevents the food from exposing surrounding air to avoid food decay. After that, we can easily to take our food out from plastic bags.

Steps :

1. Cut the top part of the bottle which is near to the ridge.

2. Pull plastic bag through the opening of the top part of the bottle.

3. Drape the plastic over the sides.

4. Put the plastic bottle lid over the bag and seal it.

You can use a used plastic bottle to make a bird feeder during the holidays. Various type of birds will attracted. At the same time, you can use your camera to snap photos of them. Then, you can upload the photos to any social network such as Facebook and get likes from your friends.

Steps:

1) Prepare a plastic bottle, a plastic plate, hot glue, string or wire, scissors, knife and wild bird seeds.

2) Remove any label from the plastic bottle and clean it with soap and warm water. Then, cut the bottom half of the bottle off using a sharp knife.

3) Cut a small dome shaped area from the bottom of the cut bottle. This will be the opening where the bird seed comes out.

4) Get your plastic plate ready and using the hot glue gun. Run a line of glue around the bottom of the bottle but do not glue the dome shaped section.

5) Firmly affix the bottle to the 'eating surface' of the plate, directly in the middle. Hold the bottle down for a few minutes to ensure that the glue is dried.

6) Poke 2 holes carefully through the top of the 2 liter bottle using the scissors. Then, thread your wire or string through the holes and tie it.

7) Fill the bottle with the seeds.

7) Hang your bird feeder on the tree branch.