Transforming Plastic Bottle Waste into Artistic Sofa Design

Introduction :

            Involved in the problem of waste in Jogja, which is a lot of piles of garbage and plastic bags of garbage everywhere, in 2023 there was a stop of receiving waste from the garbage disposal center in Jogja. to overcome this, the community can work together to develop the process of recycling plastic bottles and turning them into other useful things including clothes, furniture, bottles, used snacks or snack wrappers, or new plastic bags. recycling is the process of recovering plastic waste and reprocessing the material into useful products. Because plastic bottles and jugs are part of the big five of curbside recycling, along with aluminum cans, glass bottles, paper and steel cans. [The Plastic Bottle Recycling Project. (2022). How to Recycle Plastic Bottles.] 

In real life we always needed bottle waste there are some persen also that not longer use. But what is they not will getting involved with the bottle waste ? the answer is yes because if estimated although they just use tumbler on everyday. Sometimes they have to buy the bottle plastic like they are thirsty in the long way but they not bring tumbler so they buy water in market place in bottle plastic. Every year more than 400 million tons of plastic are produced globally and an estimated 19–23 million tons end up in lakes, rivers and seas. [ World Health Organization. (2022). The Public Health Impact of Plastic Pollution.] Then with the bottle plastic also have advantages and unadvantages. The unadvantages is when they throwing away plastic bottles will becomes plastic waste if one people, then how many people that is will be garbage heap. The advantages is we can create the plastic bottles becoming something that they need. And reducing plastic waste is a global imperative and it’s encouraging that demand for cleaner alternatives is now being driven by the public, thanks to widespread publicity in popular media about the damaging impact of plastics on the environment. [https://biomebioplastics.com/uk-can-lead-world-bioplastics-report/]

Methods :

For example, making a sofa or home furnishings from plastic bottle waste, with this we can develop our creative talents. there are also some materials that we must collect to make a sofa from plastic bottle waste containing pieces or the results of pieces of plastic and snack wrappers. in addition to requiring materials we must also have a pattern that forms the sofa and the color selection as desired. From them materials we get search around near by we house. Firstly we make the skeleton and pattern of the sofa after making it we cut the snack wrapper into small pieces then we can insert the cut pieces into the existing bottles. Each bottle must be filled completely, this will make our sofa strong. After all is done and the bottle is closed again. After all the bottles are filled with small small pieces arranged into the sofa pattern from the legs, then the hand support, and the seat, km and the back of the sofa. And arrange all with glue that sticks, then after it is finished we can add the sofa with a cloth that has been adjusted to the pattern then cut out the pattern and don't forget to give the camphor to sew it then cover the sofa using the cloth that has been sewn.

Materials :

• Plastic botol
• Fabric
• scissors
• glue
• cover snacks
• snack wrappers
• sewing (thread, needle,etc)
• solation/double tip
• Cardboard boxes
• spon ati

Result :

After we doing all activities until become sofa. We can enjoy resulting can make it environmentally friendly. And make one of the useful household tools. 

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Discussion :

With these results we can develop our skills, especially in developing our creativity in processing unused plastic bottle waste and snack wrappers. But sometimes there are still many people who are lazy to recycle waste so that it has a bad impact on the environment. Therefore, there must be one or a leader who programs for more efficient things.

Conclusion :

Recycling such as making a sofa from bool plastic is one way to reduce plastic waste. Making this artistic sofa is one method of increasing creativity as well. And by reducing plastic waste we can create a healthy and comfortable living environment.