Recycling: How to make baskets with plastic bottles

Baskets with strips of plastic bottles. Reuse containers of plastic for crafts is one of the ideas most appreciated by the skilled recyclers.

The baskets with strips of plastic bottles recycled , are very beautiful. But seeing the pictures of finished crafts, many questions arise regarding the implementation step by step from them.

In this video, show also other objects made ​​from strips of plastic bottles , but the procedure is basically all the same.

The trick to achieve the desired shape is to first make a strong cast, for example cardboard. Above him the basket weave.

You need tape to hold the tapes in the beginning, because if not zafarán. The first step is to cover the bottom with ribbons, one next to the other and make up the sides to the top edge and then fixed on the inside with tape. The sides are secured with rubber bands around the mold, so that the tapes remain straighter.

Then he weaves the bottom with tape placed perpendicular to the first. The tissue was performed by passing once above and one below, while the next row is made ​​upside down, below and above the fabric thus acquires the shape and consistency of basket.

I hope these pointers will help serve to start developing with strips of bottles, all you can think of, lining the mold with this network. The top edge is finished the excess weaving strips quearon bent inwards from the inner side of the basket with more finite strips.