Recycle plastic containers for practical use

Enjoy fresh milk every morning? Most kids love Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC). Do you use liquid detergent for your laundry? Arissto Coffee offers good rental deal for organizations and individuals. Do you own one machine at home? If you answer YES to most questions, you produce a significant amount of plastic containers at home. Don’t throw! Recycle plastic containers!

Rather than buying expensive pots and planters for your garden, recycle those plastic containers from your kitchen and bathroom. Different sizes and shapes of the containers accommodate different types of plants. Fill in with soil and start planting.

I don’t own a Arissto coffee machine, but my office does. Arissto Coffee’s single-serve capsules make excellent seedling containers. Meanwhile, KFC’s coleslaw containers can grow young bitter gourds and ladyfingers. Kenny Rogers’s platter takeaway box can do wonders. Thinking it is too shallow? Think again. I can germinate eight bitter gourds in the box.

One laundry detergent bottle can grow one Tomato tree. I can harvest nearly 50 pieces in one season. You can also attach cords to create hanging planters.

Don’t spend money buying new watering cans. Recycle plastic bottles into DIY watering bottles. With only RM1.10 for a watering drip head, I can turn a plastic bottle into a systematic watering drip system. Each bottle can last for three days. You don’t have to worry about your plants when you are on vacation.

Together we can make a difference. When we start living consciously, we will find plenty of practical ways to those plastic containers we usually trash away.

Check out the YouTube video for more creative ideas.