Did you know how much space you can save by not chucking out your plastic bottles as is?
If you empty a bottle, just take off the cap, step on it, or crumple it with your hands and press down on it hard. Keep on pressing, and put the cap back on. The bottle will want to snap back into shape, but can’t, since it can suck in any air, it’s closed. It will stay flat, and conserve a lot of space for you, you could probably fit 3 or more deflated bottles in the space of a normal bottle.
I have to admit, this idea was not born out of my environmentally friendliness. While I try to watch the environment, the reason I started this was that I was really lazy about 5 years ago to take my trash downstairs and I came up with this to be able to stretch the lifetime of a bag a bit.
