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Unless you get your milk in bags, chances are your recycling bin -- or God forbid, normal bin -- gets clogged up with milk bottles on a regular basis. If you also have a garden then you have every reason to use an empty milk bottle or two to make watering cans. Just watch this Smart Tips video to find out how.
In Britain we throw away more than 100,000 tonnes of plastic milk bottles every year, so making watering cans out of just a few of them can only be a good thing. Also, a hose can emit up to 18 litres of water per minute, so using a can to water your garden instead can potentially save quite a bit of water, too. Especially if you collect it in a water butt or use grey water.
Also, making a watering can out an old milk bottle saves the raw material and energy that would go into making new one. Click the 'play' button on the image above to watch Rikke demonstrate how to do it.
26 June 2008 12:16am
Kudos for the creativity! I have a large plastic tub in my sink that I use to recycle water into my garden every day! I work for a non-profit that supports water projects all over the world. It is the next big topic and we all need to do our part to conserve and to ensure the rights of all humans to safe drinking water.
For people who are truly concerned about the worldwide water crisis, please check out www.blueplanetrun.org. This organization has a revolutionary method of building peers out of the NGOs that work on water projects all over the globe. We need more people to understand the importance of water as a human right. Water is life. Pass it on.
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