Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Call for suggestions: what to do with plastic bottle tops

I've been collecting the tops from milk cartons at work for some time now, mainly in order to use them to mix glue in. But even after taking out a certain number for glue mixing, I've acquired a slight surplus. the question is, what do I do with 420 green plastic caps?


Some vital statistics: they are almost all green, and almost all (98.5% by my reckoning!) are the same size, which is about 40mm in diameter. That's enough, if you pack them in a straight square formation, to cover an area about 80cm x 80cm.


Two obvious ideas:

Floor mat (although an 80cm square one isn't that big really)
Lampshade

...?