Did you know that you can recycle a used glass bottle by creating something original? Here’s what you can do with the glass bottle.
Recycling glass bottles is a great way to do good for the environment and avoid waste. Do you know what you can do with bottles? Here is an original idea that you can copy and that you can make using other materials that are easy to find and cheap!
Importance of glass recycling
Glass recycling is essential to save the energy that is used to produce it and to recycle the raw materials with which it is produced. Since it is not a polluting material, glass recycling is even more important and you should know that it takes 4 thousand years to dispose of a glass bottle in the environment.
Glass can be recycled an infinite number of times and its qualities remain unchanged. This is one of the characteristics that make this material absolutely unique and special. Transparent, light and versatile, glass is now also used in construction as it combines sustainability and aesthetics in the best possible way.
You too can recycle glass and you can make beautiful and very original things, so follow the process and see what you get, you will be speechless.
What you need
To make an original object by recycling the glass bottle you need a few elements, cheap and easy to find. Here’s what you’ll need:
- Glass bottle;
- Wool thread;
- Lace;
- Cotton;
- Cardboard;
- Tape;
- Glue gun.
After you have obtained everything we have indicated, here is how you must proceed to make something original with the glass bottle.
Process for recycling a used glass bottle
First of all, if the glass bottle still has the adhesive paper attached, heat the paper with the hair dryer so that it comes off. Or, soak the jar in hot water until the paper comes off and you can easily remove it with your fingers.
Cut the cotton fabric to the diameter of the bottle cap and fix it on top with glue. With scissors, make cuts on the side of the fabric and glue them to the edge of the cap. Cut out the excess edge and apply the strip of lace you have prepared with the help of glue.
Continue with the glue and apply the satin ribbon over the top of the lace. Wrap the tape on your fingers two or three times and make a double bow to apply to the edge of the lid and secure it with glue. Now let’s proceed to the creation of the doll.
How to make the doll from a used glass bottle
Once the glass bottle cap process has been carried out, we continue with the creation of the doll. With cotton and canvas, prepare balls from which you will make your hands, which you will take care to stuff and sew with needle and thread, curling them.
With the same procedure, prepare the doll’s head and when you have finished it, take the wool threads, join them lengthwise to several threads and create two legs, knot them at the bottom and braid them from the top. Add lace ribbons on top and draw the doll’s eyes, nose and mouth with a pencil.
Attach your hands again with needle and thread and then take the cap finished with lace and glue the doll folded in half on it. At this point, close the glass jar with the cap and it will support the doll. As you can see, you have made an original and precious object, and as soon as someone sees it they will want to buy it.
These are objects in great demand because they are handmade and are part of that small circle of products that are valued because they are part of craftsmanship. You can make various types and indulge in the composition, creating combinations that you like and that you want to see made to your liking.
