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You make a lot of it and you see industrial quantities: a surprising recycling idea

With this simple recycling idea, you can create a truly beautiful and useful creation: it only takes a few minutes.

bottle recycling idea
The economic crisis and the ever-increasing rise in prices are leading many families to change their habits at home. In particular, many have recently adopted the recycling technique, which allows us to exploit certain objects that we would otherwise throw in the trash to create very useful things. In this way, we do not need to make unnecessary expenses. It really only takes a few minutes to create something beautiful and, above all, that meets our needs. Just to give an example, few people know that many beautiful things can be created with a simple empty plastic bottle, so it is absolutely not necessary to throw it away.

The best recycling idea: in just a few minutes you can make a lot of them
The first thing to do is to get an empty plastic bottle and cut it in half with a cutter or knife. Now let’s take scissors and cut the middle to make rings.

Plastic bottles
We reduce one of these rings even further by cutting it in half. Now we can take a piece of wool and start wrapping it around the plastic ring we made from the bottle.

After completely covering the plastic ring with the woolen thread, we fix it with the glue gun, cutting the remaining thread with scissors.

Once this step is complete, we now need to insert some pins into the bracelet we are creating. Let’s take four of them and place them exactly on the “cardinal points” of the circle: one to the north, one to the south, one to the east, and one to the west.

Now it’s time to insert more pins into the bracelet. They need to be positioned perfectly halfway between one pin and another (you can use a ruler to help you, editor’s note).

Once this is done, we remove the pins and begin to sew the thread, taking as a basis the points marked by the pins. By proceeding with a careful and detailed knitting, we will be able to create a perfect lattice inside the circle we have just made.

When we have almost reached the center of the circle, we can begin inserting some beads to sew them together with the thread. By doing this, we will form a nice circle of beads within our creation.

Follow the instructions carefully and you will make something very useful
We finish the work by eliminating the remaining thread and using the same wool thread to create threads that descend from the starting circle. In this case too, we insert some beads to make our creation even more captivating.

Wool yarn
We’ve almost reached the end of the project. We’re finishing making the beaded threads and using a crochet hook to tie the top of the creation. This will give us a base where we can attach our keys.

In short, in just a few minutes we will have managed to create a beautiful key ring that we can keep for ourselves, give as a gift to a family member, friend or partner, or maybe even sell.

By doing this, we have recycled a material like plastic in the best possible way, while saving money. You can also make something very useful using a ball of wool and a plastic cup.