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22 Ingenious Ways to Recycle Your Glass Bottles.

22 Ingenious Ways to Recycle Your Glass Bottles.

Want to recycle your glass bottles?

But you don't know what to do with it?

There are plenty of clever ideas for recycling glass bottles.

After seeing 51 ideas for recycling bottle caps, here are 22 cool tips for recycling your glass bottles into decoration or practical objects:

22 Ingenious Ways to Recycle Your Glass Bottles.

1. An automatic watering can

22 Ingenious Ways to Recycle Your Glass Bottles.

Place a terracotta nozzle at the end of the neck to gently give water to your plants. Check out the trick here.

2. Shelves for books

22 Ingenious Ways to Recycle Your Glass Bottles.

A few bottles and some nice boards, here are some really cool shelves for all your rooms!

3. Tealight holders that protect the candles from the wind

22 Ingenious Ways to Recycle Your Glass Bottles.

For a romantic evening, would you have thought of it?

4. Mosquito repellent torches

22 Ingenious Ways to Recycle Your Glass Bottles.

If you put lemongrass oil in there, these pretty torches not only decorate, but they also keep mosquitoes away.

5. Plant hangers

22 Ingenious Ways to Recycle Your Glass Bottles.

Personally, I find it wonderful to put my flowers in these bottles. And, in addition, the flowers hanging from the ceiling, you save space in your small apartment.

6. A miniature garden

22 Ingenious Ways to Recycle Your Glass Bottles.

You don't have a garden? Here is a great tip for having a miniature garden at home. It's pretty and the kids love it.

7. A bottle wall for the garden

22 Ingenious Ways to Recycle Your Glass Bottles.

Make a pretty curtain for your front door. Separate it from your garden with colorful bottles.

8. A water dispenser for birds

22 Ingenious Ways to Recycle Your Glass Bottles.

Help the birds drink in your garden with a cute water dispenser.

9. A lounge chair

22 Ingenious Ways to Recycle Your Glass Bottles.

You just had to think about it. Maybe add a small, thin mattress for comfort.

10. A chime for the wind

22 Ingenious Ways to Recycle Your Glass Bottles.

In a garden, it is sweet to hear the wind set this pretty chime in motion.

This soft sound rocks us while we rest on our beautiful lounge chair.

11. A bottle chandelier

22 Ingenious Ways to Recycle Your Glass Bottles.

This is a chandelier worthy of a ballroom, don't you think?

12. A hat rack

22 Ingenious Ways to Recycle Your Glass Bottles.

Hat rack, or coat rack for that matter, it will look great in your entryway.

13. A necklace

22 Ingenious Ways to Recycle Your Glass Bottles.

By taking only the top of the necks, you can make beautiful colorful necklaces.

14. Glasses

22 Ingenious Ways to Recycle Your Glass Bottles.

Wine bottles have a longer shelf life.

This is due to an annealing process, which makes it a perfect item for recycled glassware.

15. LED lamps

22 Ingenious Ways to Recycle Your Glass Bottles.

As small LED lamps to turn on in the evening in your veranda, there is nothing more original or prettier.

16. Dishes to serve as an aperitif

22 Ingenious Ways to Recycle Your Glass Bottles.

What do you think of these pretty little dishes for aperitif cakes? Yes, a bottle cut lengthwise and well sanded =a pretty dish.

17. A decorative tree

22 Ingenious Ways to Recycle Your Glass Bottles.

A few bottles, some strong wire, and here is a decorative tree.

18. A standing coat rack

22 Ingenious Ways to Recycle Your Glass Bottles.

Here is another coat rack, on a stand this time, still made with bottles. Design:Daniela Cruz.

19. Spoons

22 Ingenious Ways to Recycle Your Glass Bottles.

Here are some very pretty kitchen utensils by Laurence Brabant.

20. A wall clock

22 Ingenious Ways to Recycle Your Glass Bottles.

A very pretty wall clock can also be made with glass bottles.

21. A soap dispenser

22 Ingenious Ways to Recycle Your Glass Bottles.

Design, right? For hand soap as well as for dishwashing liquid, it's still prettier than a plastic bottle!

22. Containers for the kitchen

22 Ingenious Ways to Recycle Your Glass Bottles.

How best to store rice, pasta and spices? Certainly not in plastic pots. Then glass bottles are perfect.

And that means less glass waste.

Your turn...

Do you have other ideas for recycling glass bottles? Share them with us in the comments. We can't wait to read you!