We’d never thought of bottles being used in this fashion, but from the video on this Kickstarter project by two French guys, it looks like a pretty cool idea: turn bottles into plastic rope! Any way to reuse or recycle is a great thing in our book. From Pavel & Ian:

The absolutely astonishing amount of plastic bottles that everyone uses and throws into the garbage can every day is truly impressive. This represents an economic waste, since the plastic of bottles is a commodity that is worth money and can be reused. Also, from an ecological perspective, this poses several problems. Even when sent for recycling, the volume of plastic bottles makes it challenging to transport and accommodate them efficiently.

So we thought about it and asked ourselves: What if we could just smartly and easily cut plastic bottles and turn them into convenient ropes? That’s what made us develop the Plastic Bottle Cutter, a smart pocket-size tool with which you can very easily cut any plastic bottle – of juice, soda  or other – into a fine plastic rope that can be used for just about as many purposes as you can think of.

Whether it is for handy and DYI purposes, for creative uses and arts & crafts, for car towing (really!), or even to survive a zombie post-apocalyptical world, the plastic ropes that you can turn plastic bottles into can be extremely useful.

Although we’re not positive how smooth the edges of the thin plastic “rope” really is (despite the creators of this project’s assurances), but if it seems like a good idea to you, then consider kickstarting the project!