Re-use, recycle Reduce Project.

Plastic Bottle Recycle Project

Developing ideas for re-purposing plastic bottles.

Using a soldering iron to cut into plastic bottles to create art is one way to manipulate and re-use plastic.

This is a plastic bottle cutter that can create twine and plastic rope, currently I am learning the technique , maybe softening the bottles first would make it a bit easier.

The objective is to create a project to inform the viewer the need to reduce plastic pollution by creating art and purpose built recycling stations using recycled plastic bottles. There is a need to make recycling a more important issue and to encourage people to seek out alternatives to their current plastic usage.

Scientists and designers are already making bio degradable plastics to replace current plastics which take between 400-1000 years to decompose. This means all the plastic from the last 50 years is still currently on on earth. Billions of tons of plastic waste which needs to be removed from our natural environment.