Depleting the wastestreams.

When first given this project, we were at a complete loss. Stumped. Then epiphany. We could make a bowl. Dogs wouldn’t mind drinking from a bowl made of bottle caps. They can chew on it and/or play with it as well as eat or drink from it. So we created a base first by hot gluing the caps together and then attempted sides, too rudimentary (the orange and blue model). We needed to find a way to actually achieve a curved bowl. The second attempt (black and white model) is closer to the desired shape still rudimentary and bonded with hot glue, but this
one is more dynamic. We added straws to it help achieve a more flared shape and add decoration. The final stage of the bowl was and is to make a mold and inject resin into it to create a more sturdy and dynamic structure. Overall the first stages of the bowl took about 25 minutes to create. While the resin bowl took 5 hours minimum.
In the process of creating the bowl, we played around with some of the caps and they nested quite nicely into each other. So we decided to take on another project as well as the bowl. We went about creating children’s play toys with the nestling caps, mainly cars/trucks. The first attempt is a truck. Not as streamline but a cool concept and sweet little toy, if you ask me. Next which s my favorite is the rattle jeep. Truthfully I think the car/truck idea is the most marketable and economically savvy. They took about an hour and a half to create from start to finish. A couple screws, glue, a bottle, dowels, and some caps and you have an exciting little toy car.
Both products can be used and reused. We still feel a toy car would get more use than a bowl, more sentimental value can be placed in a hand my down old toy car. Everything in the car can be salvaged and used to keep items from adding to the landfill.