How to melt plastic bottles

Sandwich Toaster Plastic Recycling: Reusing household plastic waste to make things using a panini press including a lamp shade, Christmas decorations, and a heart mobile. In this 'ible I'll show a way to process some of your household waste using some pretty basic things to turn them…

Making crafts out of laundry detergent lids helps keep garbage out of landfills, creates something useful and/or attractive from essentially free material and educates other people on the importance of recycling. Once clean, these deep caps, which often aren't accepted in curbside recycling, have numerous uses.

Most of us simply toss empty plastic bottles away without a second thought. However, learning to melt and mold them is an inexpensive hobby that will let you explore your creative side while also giving those bottles a brand new existence. You can make a myriad of different things, from jewelry to figurines to holiday decorations, and are limited...

Most of us simply toss empty plastic bottles away without a second thought. However, learning to melt and mold them is an inexpensive hobby that will let you explore your creative side while also giving those bottles a brand new existence. You can make a myriad of different things, from jewelry to figurines to holiday decorations, and are limited only by what your mind can conceive.

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How to remove the marble from a Ramune (Japanese lemonade) bottle It depends if the bottle is glass or plastic. I've done it with both and find them quite easy. With the plastic ones you need a lighter and a screwdriver. Melt the plastic and use a flathead screwdriver to pat down the plastic til a hole is big enough to get the marble out of. With the glass ones you also need a craft knife. Melt the lid and cut the top. Then use the screwdriver to pry the lid off. They're cute to collect!

Hello! Today I’d like to show you one of my latest ideas & creations. There are already quite some recycled jewelry tutorials on this blog, but here comes yet another :) I personally love…

The Recycled Plastic Stool 🪑♻️ This was actually the first ever attempt we had at making a sheet of recycled plastic. We melted 2.2kg of HDPE, which was more than our little panini press could hold,...

Most of us simply toss empty plastic bottles away without a second thought. However, learning to melt and mold them is an inexpensive hobby that will let you explore your creative side while also giving those bottles a brand new existence. You can make a myriad of different things, from jewelry to figurines to holiday decorations, and are limited only by what your mind can conceive.