Celebrate Sustainability
California Wine Bottle Upcycle Ideas
After enjoying a good wine, how should we deal with the empty bottles? Here are a few easy DIYs for you to upcycle the wine bottles.
享受美酒後，往往剩下不少玻璃酒樽。我們為大家推薦幾個簡單DIY，廢物利用變成質感滿滿小裝飾，增添生活氣氛又環保！
How to remove the wine labels from the bottle? 如何去除酒標？
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If you want to collect the wine label
如果你想留下酒標收藏：
Use a hairdryer to heat up the wine bottle until the label is slightly loose. Pull out the label gently.
If it is not working, buy a wine label collector and follow the instructions on it.
用風筒以熱風加熱酒標，熱力至一定程度後酒標背膠將軟化，邊角將開始甩出。小心由邊角開始慢慢拉起酒標，即可完整地將酒標從酒樽撕出。風筒怎樣吹也沒有甩出的跡象？使用專門為此設計的酒標取標貼吧！
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If you don’t mind damaging the label
如果你不打算保留酒標：
Prepare a bucket of water, add 5 -10 tablespoons of baking soda, soak the wine bottle for 30 minutes, and peel the label off.
Use a sponge to remove the residues if needed.
準備一大盤室溫水，加入5大湯匙梳打粉，放入酒樽浸泡30分鐘左右，即可輕易撕走酒標。亦可用百潔布磨擦仍在酒樽上、未能完全清除的部分。
Vase 花樽
The easiest DIY that many wine lovers have done at least once! Clean the bottle, and remove the wine labels – a nice vase already! Make it prettier with paint, jute twine, wrapping paper etc. Be creative!
Papers could be pasted onto the bottle neatly with double-sided tape. Use glue gun for jute twine or any other special materials like seashells or stones.
Since the opening of a wine bottle is a bit narrow, single flower or dried flowers with thinner stems would work the best with the wine bottle vase.
最簡單直接的玻璃酒樽DIY！ 只需要洗淨玻璃酒樽，除去酒標，便已經可以直接當作花樽使用。要提升美感，可以發揮您的藝術細胞，以顏料、油漆、毛線、麻繩等等不同物料裝飾，獨特又美觀！至於黏貼材料，花紙、色紙等材質用雙面膠紙即可，而毛線、麻繩等用膠水槍將會黏貼得更穩固。由於酒樽口較為細小，宜只插入單支花朵，或選擇較幼身的乾花，文青感更強。
Decorative Lamp 裝飾燈
Simply put LED decorative lights into a clean and empty wine bottle, you will get a beautiful decorative lamp for your room! There are some LED decorative lights with a battery box in the shape of a wine cork – perfect to use with your wine bottles!
放入LED小燈串，空酒樽迅即變成質感滿滿的小裝飾！網絡上甚至有LED小燈串的電池盒為酒塞形狀，放入酒樽毫無違和感，靚！
Blackboard 酒樽小黑板
Turn empty wine bottles into a cool gift with blackboard paint. Write and draw whatever you want – they are super cool to put on shelves!
只要於空酒樽塗上黑板漆，您便可以隨心寫上小訊息，既可作為簡約型格的小裝飾，亦可送贈親友傳遞心意。
Candle Stand & Candle Stand Cover 蠟燭座
Make a drinking glass out of a wine bottle!
Watch the below video made by Wine Spectator to see how exactly:
切割酒樽做水杯！可以參考Wine Spectator以下短片示範：
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF7ToxncebU
Then, the lower part of the wine bottle is now a water glass. How about the upper part of it? Find a base plate of your liking and make that a candle stand. The upper part of a wine glass can be the beautiful glass cover of the candle stand.
下半部分做了水杯，上半部分怎樣用？ 只要加一個底座，即可變成有罩的蠟燭座，同樣質感十足。
*Caution: please wear safety glasses, protective masks and gloves etc when you work on the glass cutting and sanding.
* 切割酒樽、打磨玻璃切口等有一定危險性，大家謹記做足保護，防護眼罩、面罩、手套等不可少，注意安全！
Not a DIY fan? Or have too many wine bottles that you cannot upcycle them all?
The most responsible way would be recycling the bottles. In Hong Kong, some of the residential buildings/ estates have glass recycling bins for its residents. Otherwise, check out the government’s waste reduction website (link here) and find the closest recycling points near you.
Wine bottle recycling points: https://www.wastereduction.gov.hk/zh-hk/recycling-map?f%5B0%5D=category%3A100&f%5B1%5D=category%3A101
自問不是DIY高手，又或者飲了太多酒空酒樽太多怎麼DIY也用不完?
最環保的處理方法自然是回收。香港部分屋苑有設置玻璃容器回收桶，如果大家所居住的地方有這些回收桶就最方便，沒有的話，可以於環境保護署的香港減廢網站搜尋最近的玻璃容器回收點（按此連結）。
將酒樽拿去回收前，切記要先洗乾淨酒樽並風乾，放入回收桶時亦盡量輕放，做個有責任的酒友！
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