- Imagine your ideal hotel. How would you make sure your hotel produces as little waste as possible? Make sure your hotel is Zero Waste certified.
- You have lots of useful things at home that you no longer need. Write down what you can do with the following items:
- A table
- A chair
- A bicycle
- Books
- Wooden pallet
- Old telephone
- Pots
- Make a shelf for newspapers and magazines. Cut off the top of the plastic bottles and work the edge as in the first tip. Place the bottles on the table in a straight line and glue them together using a hot glue gun, then add the next layer on top of the first, etc. If you don’t want the bottles to be visible and they will stick together more firmly, add a ‘frame’ – glue corrugated cardboard on all sides except the front, which you can also dress up with decorative paper. This will make the stand look like a cabinet on the outside, with round spaces inside where you can put rolled-up newspapers and magazines.
- Make a gift box. Gift boxes are expensive, so it’s always worth making your own. Cut off the top of the plastic and then make four even vertical cuts about 5 cm deep. Then cut each slit in an arc so that it looks as if the top of the bottle is about to open into a flower. To make the ‘petals’ look prettier, you can make a cardboard template before cutting the plastic, which you can wipe onto the plastic with a felt-tip pen. Push the petals inwards to close the packaging (after you have filled it). You can stick the top, or simply tie a bow around the gift box. And why is this gift box so great? Because it’s transparent, so you can see what’s inside.
