New Ways To Give Your Trash A Second Life

I am a huge fan of finding new ways to reuse plastic waste. Yes, making an entire building out of PET water bottles may be a bit extreme. But finding ways to use those bottles that you may find while out and about or around the house is great. I have come across a few products that will assist you in making useful things out of what might otherwise be tossed out.

The Twist & Spout makes any plastic soda or water bottle into a water cool pourer (see photo)! You can make your soda bottle into a device that can water your plants for a long time, turning disposable into useful.

RePlayGround also makes some neat kits that make it easy and fun to reuse. One of my favorites is the Bottle Lamp kit. You simply add 6 glass bottles (or I suppose plastic if they were the right shape) and they becomes a nice little lamp! Check out the rest of the site for other great reuse kits.

While recycling is great, it is good to remember that reusing as much as we can from what we already have, saves the most energy and keeps the most waste out of landfills. With the US plastic recycling rate floating around 27%, we need to do as much reusing as possible.