Clay, porcelain, glass. If you’re shopping for a new vase, these are the materials you’re most likely to see. But one designer is making a series of vases out of a material we usually stuff into a ...

There are endless functional ways to upcycle a plastic bottle. Here’s one that’s also pretty to have around. Take any PET or PETE (Polyethylene terephthalate) plastic bottle and melt it with a heat ...

For the glass-is-half-full optimists at Trash for Teaching, an empty plastic water bottle doesn’t have to be tossed into the blue recycling bin. Instead, it can be turned into a vase -- and a lesson ...