UPB-VG Perforator | A tool for upcycling plastic bottles to produce Vertical Gardens

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The new UPB-VG Perforator

For a couple of weeks now, we have been working on a tool which we can use to easily rapidly perforate the bottom of plastic bottles to transform them into Vertical Gardens and last week, we crafted the an ideal tool which we will henceforth call, the UPB-VG Perforator.

UPB-VG means Upcycle Plastic Bottle to Vertical Garden Perforator.

This innovation comes after the Earth Rangers had recently transformed plastic bottles into tree nursery pots known as “UPB Tree Pots”. You can learn more about the Earth Rangers’ UPB Tree Pots.
It’s one of the most important tools the Earth Rangers will continue to use in their #EndPlasticPollution Campaign. Prior to the UPB

How did we make the UPB-VG Perforator?

We visited the metal man’s workshop and searched for scrap metal tubes that were almost the same size like the bottle throats (orifice) of the plastic bottles we wanted to upcycle. Then we asked the metal man to cut it, and add a piece of metal handle to it to create our tool!
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Scrap metal tube is same size with the bottle throat

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UPB-VG Perforators without handles

Then we took it home and added a Bamboo handle to the metal handle and voila, we have our UPB-VG Perforator.
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UPB-VG Perforator

How do we use the UPB-VG Perforator?

We then heat the UPB-VG Perforator in fire and then use it to perforate the bottom of the plastic bottles we want to upcycle. This process is faster and easier compared to using the Solder iron to perforate the plastic bottles.
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UPB-VG Perforator in action

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Once we perforate, we have this little plastic that we keep for further recycling

Once perforated, we insert the bottle throat of another bottle into the perforated hole to start producing our Vertical Gardens. For now, we wanted to share our accomplishment of a UPB-VG Perforator and in the days ahead, we shall explain how to make the vertical gardens.

Once more, @thegreens and her Earth Rangers have registered another major achievement in their quest to #EndPlasticPollution

Environmental Change, a green poem by @mr-greens

You shit, piss and pollute upstream and drink downstream. Are you not a "shithole"?
People of Mother Earth, please Change!
You pollute the air and breath the same air: isn't it insane?
Homo sapiens, change!
You litter the streets and complain about the filth.
"Chai", i beg change!
You cut the tree, eat much meat, burn the fossil and biofuels and complain about the heat but deny climate change.
Isn't this surprising? My people, change!
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Where did u want the water to go to? My "contri" people change!
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Isn't it crazy. My brothers and sisters change!
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Where do u think the raw materials for your medicine come from? Change!
In all, you want good health in a bad environment. Well, visit a psychiatrist or Change!
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I have seen, heard and used a lot of things made from recycled bottles (I sew with material made out of them) but I have not seen this before! Good job! I am so proud of you. 💚

Thanks very much @zen-art and we will keep looking for creative ways to #EndPlasticPollution. This is just the begining and thanks for being a source of inspiration and support.

This is so brilliant! What a great invention!!! I love it. And i love the poem, too.

Thanks @phoenixwren and we hope the message we share should reach a very wide audience so that people can "change"

such dedication and inventiveness.. we can really solve so many problems when we think like this...

making things like this is so inventive and novel, and thats what we need today.. to start thinking differently and trying new ideas out!!

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@eco-alex, thanks for the sweet words of encouragement and support and its true that if we think differently, we can bring about a major change in the world. This is just the begining of our journey to #EndPlasticPollution and more is yet to come as we are bent of finding simple and effective solutions to the plastic problem.

Nice invention and very resourceful for sure. Also nice little poem calling everyone to action. We need people to remember that we are all warriors for the Earth, and we must respect her as we would our own mother, because she is just that. Blessings brother.

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