As plastic ages, it tends to dry out and become brittle. “So if you’re not using your trimmer for a bit, it can help to remove the string and store it in a container where it can stay ...

Don’t throw away that empty plastic bottle yet. You can make some super durable string with it using a few basic hardware components. If you have some empty plastic bottles lying around ...

But even if the end of the world as we know it is coming, there will certainly be no shortage of plastic bottles. And if you know what you are doing, no shortage of strong string.

One of our tipsters just sent in a fascinatingly simple trick for re-using plastic bottles and turning them into useful plastic string. It’s in Russian but between the translated English subt… ...