Category: Punching & drilling

A series of lights from used food and drink packaging by Anke Weiss who traced the patterns and text on the packaging with hundreds of pin-pricks, which allow the light to shine through.

Bo-tito comes assembled and as a kit. The pieces are connected to each other by an elastic multifilament cord for textile use. They Also don’t carry weapons. The average life of it is 400 years, which takes plastic to degrade.

Image search – various makers

Image search – various makers. Robots with bottles for bodies.

Garden furniture made with made with plastic caps by Isa Digue.

Cheryl shares her method of making lidmen.

Designer Athanassios Babalis created a shopping bag and stool from recycled bottle caps by threading them together. Instructions in Greek, with diagrams.

Columns made from recycled plastic cartons and lids by Mary Ellen Croteau.

Michelle Stitzlein has written two books of projects made from plastic caps. If you are a teacher who wants to try plastic caps in your classroom, she has all the tips on how to do that.

Plastic bottle Windmill design video with cork and cable tie by Ursula Allen from Switzerland AKA The Recycling Queen

Designer Garth Britzman of Lincoln, Nebraska used recycled bottles filled with colored water to create stunning topographical shade canopy for a vehicle. I love how the natural shape of the plastic bottles makes the pooled water look like leaves.

Fabulous selection of robots – each one unique – from the Caps robots blog by Wilis Ramos

Examples of plastic recycled robots by Marcial Vargas from Eco robots.reciclo

WOW – these look such fun!
Spinners, shakers, crashers from collected bottle cap plastics by Alex Lockwood

Designed by Carla from Trahmagination

Image search – various makers, Robots made mainly from plastic caps.

Using plastic vinegar bottles. Instructions with ideas for variations
By Mine Full

Made by crocheting 3 water bottles together
Video by Crafty Paty (in Spanish)

Clear instructions by Little Chuck

Instructions by Petra
(I have included only the English, as I expect non-English speakers would already being using Google translate here.)

Tiny coin purses from a plastic bottle cap. Instructions by Tania Romualdo

So lovely and bright – Plastics Crochet Artist Magda van der Vloed

Cap curtains with bold designs by Freddy Vulto
Concise intructions.

By Michelle Brand
Bottle bases linked together with garment ties to create window screens and lighting.