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Making Table Mats out of Plastic Bottle Covers

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Overview

A tablemat made of plastic bottle covers safes the soil from pollution. Littering in any home is reduced and up cycling the plastic covers is fare better than burring them and safes the user the cost of buying more plastic mats that would be more waste in the near future.

What you need: plastic bottle covers, plastic glue

Making your table mat: they could be very beautiful Just get creative

step1: glue the plastic covers in any desired design and color pattern adjacently and let it dry.

using the mat: place you mat on the table and you can place tea cups, plates and bottles on them when you are using your table

(you can also use plastic bottle caps to make many other furnishings such as baskets, lampshades, clocks etc)

The challenge

Plastic could take thousands of years to disappear from the soil and many homes have the problem of disposing non-degradable waste such as plastic bottles or even glass bottles especially in the underdeveloped countries with poor waste management systems. Burring plastics can course a grate deal of air pollution.

Description

A tablemat made of plastic bottle covers safes the soil from pollution. Littering in any home is reduced and up cycling the plastic covers is fare better than burring them and safes the user the cost of buying more plastic mats that would be more waste in the near future.

What you need: plastic bottle covers, plastic glue

Making your table mat: they could be very beautiful Just get creative

step1: glue the plastic covers in any desired design and color pattern adjacently and let it dry.

using the mat: place you mat on the table and you can place tea cups, plates and bottles on them when you are using your table

(you can also use plastic bottle caps to make many other furnishings such as baskets, lampshades, clocks etc)

The challenge

Plastic could take thousands of years to disappear from the soil and many homes have the problem of disposing non-degradable waste such as plastic bottles or even glass bottles especially in the underdeveloped countries with poor waste management systems. Burring plastics can course a grate deal of air pollution.

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