Recycling bottles

Our homes are filled with plastic things, and this tendency has become a cause for concern for many people since it can take up to 1,000 years for plastic to decompose. 5-Minute Crafts is constantly looking for new ways to reuse bottles, drinking straws, and other plastic objects and hopes that these tricks will help save some things from ending up in a landfill.

American painter Leslie Parke paints abstract compositions from the real life subject matter of gold trimmed China dishes and recycled disposables. One day, on a walk with a friend in Sasebo, Japan…

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Your little ones will be tickled pink over these little fairy houses! You'll need: Empty and Cleaned 2 Liter BottleMarkerExacto KnifeHot-GlueCardboardPaintModgepodge Cut about a third of the bottle off of the bottom for the base of the house. Use a marker to trace shape of your "roof" on the top piece of the house and…

We’ve been doing a bit more organizing and de-junking this summer and my kids have a lot of little items. You know — tiny legos, itty bitty Polly Pockets, t

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Don't throw away your plastic bottles! Try some of these DIY upcycling projects instead to help organize and spruce up your home décor.