PLASTIC BOTTLE PALM

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School of practical people. Master class making a beautiful and beautiful palm tree with your own hands from plastic bottles.
New technologies and innovations bring a lot of good things to people's lives, make them simpler and more beautiful. But with this new, something bad comes into our lives.
A plastic bottle is an example above. This thing was developed in 1941. A plastic bottle has conquered the whole world. She is very popular for a number of her positive qualities:
- cheap stuff
- very technological
- simplicity in operation,
- can be reused for home use.
Unfortunately, the plastic bottle brought some bad points:
- the decomposition period in natural conditions is more than 100 years,
- during decomposition and burning hazardous and harmful substances are released.
Over the past summer season in our family has accumulated a lot of plastic bottles. In the fall, they began to think about where to throw them, how to take them to a landfill. The youngest daughter proposed the ingenious idea to leave plastic bottles at home and make something beautiful and original.
Everyone liked the daughter’s idea. On the Internet, we reviewed a lot of crafts. We settled on the idea of making a palm tree.
Stage number 1
Collect as many plastic bottles as possible. Color is green (from under Sprite). Color is dark brown (from Kvass or Beer). A huge amount is needed. Immediately ask for help from neighbors and acquaintances. You will certainly be helped in difficult undertakings.

Stage number 2
Think carefully about what height and size your palm trees will be, how many palm trees there will be, where you will install them.
For starters, we personally make one tall palm.

Stage number 3
We tear off all the stickers and product labels. Dirty plastic bottles gently rinse in hot water.
Stage number 4
Sort plastic bottles. It will be easier and more comfortable to work. We start with brown bottles. Greens put aside, let them not interfere. We will use them a little later.
Stage number 5
Proceed to make a powerful and reliable barrel. We take plastic brown bottles. Gently cut the bottoms off the bottles. Then we take a drill with a nozzle. We make holes on the hard surface of the center of the bottoms. We take fittings. Billets are strung on reinforcement one on one.

Stage number 6
We bring green bottles from the warehouse. From them we will make the leaves of our exotic palm. For this procedure we will need sharp scissors and a knife. Carefully cut the bottom of the plastic bottle. Throw away. The remainder is cut into long strips.

Stage number 7
We mount and securely fasten the workpieces on iron fittings. The length of the fittings depends on the number of bottles and the size of the palm.

Stage number 9
The final stage. We mount securely all structural elements. Iron fittings are securely fastened to each other. We invited a welder neighbor. Five minutes of work. There she is. Our beautiful palm tree. Reliably mount the finished structure. We pour cement mortar into the pit, install a palm tree, fix it with twine.
Our family decided that in front of our house, three gorgeous palm trees will grow soon. We have the Bahamas all year round. See photo No. 8. Our palms delight all neighbors, make them stop all pedestrians and drivers, take pictures of beauty and tell friends about a miracle !!!