Clever Ways to Reuse PET Bottles
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto
on 12. 8.08

Swiss company Recycline has taken a rather interesting PET bottle and turned it into a range of products, from newspaper racks to vases to napkin rings. They range in price from 6 to 120 swiss francs but no doubt the MAKE types will have them knocked off before Christmas.

Some of them are quite complex, with zippers and special connections; others couldn't be simpler. I will be looking a lot more closely at the PET bottles available in North America from now on. Do we have anything as attractive? Recycline via NOTCOT
Recycled Vases in TreeHugger:
Paper Vase from Lekkerhome
Noming Vase from YouSayTomayto
Less is More: This is Not a Ming Vase
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