CAPitalizing on RE-USE

Assignment: all items used to build your bottle cap model must be salvaged or biodegradable. expect to justify all of your materials through the lens of "Radical simplicity".

just some ideas

when i first received this project, i googled bottle caps to see what images i could find. after getting some ideas i thought about doing jewelry or either a trash can. but i decided on neither because after hearing others ideas, i found out that my original idea was not so original.

1st model

the idea behind my first model was a pencil holder. for the first model i only did a portion of the idea. this idea did not get chosen because it was held together with glue and of course glue is not recyclable. but i guess that what first ideas are.

the final product

if you look closely, you are able to see the whole and the wire being weaved through.


this is the inside of the bag. we mixed smaller lids with larger lids to create the bottom. i thought that this was a very interesting picture.


me and my partner finally decided to do a grocery bag. something that is used on an everyday basis that gets easily thrown in the trash. we made our grocery bag out of plastic lids and wire. we puched holes in the lids and connected them by weaving the wire through them. when looking for the lca of plastic lids i was unable to find it because many websites show that it is hard to tell the lca of plastic.