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
...?
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
...?
28 comments:
Get another 420 red plastic caps from skim milk or chocolate milk cartons and put together checkers and backgammon sets as a sideline source of income if the current economy fails to re-ignite. Both ideas will probably do better this year than trying to sell pencils, or apples, or lumps of coal.
Put an ad in the Evening News:
Looking for 420 plastic milk bottles.
Bottles with tops need not apply.
No agencies.
?
this lady has some ideas.
Send them to Blue Peter, with some glue and sticky-back plastic?
Make flipflops.
Make a tiny wortress for the ants in your back yard.
Pick a neighbor. Put one cap in mail box. Repeat for 420 days.
Write your name and address on the caps. Release them into the sea. See how many come back.
Pasties for 210 go-go dancers?
Or you could convert to semi-skimmed for a while, and make some dummy traffic lights for your corridors at work.
Place them between sheets of wax paper. Use warm iron to fuse together. Insto-art.
Place fused caps in bike basket for added strength/water resistance.
Kite tail decoration.
Sew them together to make a scale-mail shirt. Instant Godzilla Halloween costume!
//Place them between sheets of wax paper. Use warm iron to fuse together. Insto-art.
Place fused caps in bike basket for added strength/water resistance.//
An electric guitar made from recycled plastic .
Featured on national TV the other day. The plastics are chipped and then heated and compressed. Bit bigger/hotter than an iron, though, I suspect.
Make coasters for mugs out of them? Glue 4 of them together side-by-side, add some cardboard or whatever to the bottom so they don't scratch the table, and you have yourself some credit crunch coffee coasters.
Make 105 mini soap box racers of course.
Super glue pairs of them and you'll have 210 spools suitable for everything from stray hair to your navel lint.
Throw your best Aussie accent and put them on your fingertips, zap, you're a Gecko.
Acquire a large-ish freshwater aquarium, equip the tank with air inflow at its bottom, and dump in the caps. That might be soothing like a lava lamp.
Place the caps in a clear container and for $1 raffle guesses of how many caps are inside, winner takes all.
Sell them on eBay or Amazon
(I'm sure I saw something like 300 Smarties tops, and toenail clippings once)
Peg them at people on the street. Say it's performance art.
Pasties? Have you been watching '2 pints of lager and a packet of crisps'?
(It's a TV show)
I knew I could rely on you lot!
Incidentally, I should mention that Edinburgh council won't recycle them because they are the wrong sort of plastic (type 2 = HDPE). Silly farts.
Find some needy bottles (I understand the local bottle bank's full of likely targets)
Peg them at the Edinburgh council. Alternately, try and bring back pogs as a fad again.
Water bowls for 420 mice?
This really bugs me too, because being on fortnightly recycling collections means that empty milk bottles sit in the recycle bag in the utilty room for an average of a week.
Unless you wash them out *really* thoroughly, without a cap, they're gonna STINK.
That should be a nursery rhyme
http://www.itsnoteasybeinggreen.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11781&sid=49dd90533ad2c58e5b7a5b6d90d517fc
Scrollcut blocks of wood in the profile of trucks, automobiles, or railroad cars. Paint or varnish as desired. Drill through the bottom edge of the block with a 1/8" drill bit. Measure and cut an appropriate length of stiff wire coathanger and thread through the drilled hole. Hotglue the bottle caps to the ends of the coathanger axles for colorful rolling wheels. Set up a card table on the curbside and sell your finished product to passersby.
Find a suitable number of tubular legged tables that rock unevenly. With a tube of silicone adhesive caulk, put a dab of adhesive on the inside of a bottlecap and slip under the table leg to steady the table. With 420 caps (and more undoubtedly in the offing) you could create a lucrative sideline business servicing all your local cafes and card parlors.
I'd love to find one of these round my area!..
Sounds like a money-making opportunity in the making.....Deal!
And that leads to another use for the bottle caps: Paste a denomination sticker on the top and use them in place of poker chips.
Hey! we need this sort of gung-ho financial advice over here-I can then stop selling crack down at my kid's school.
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