Review by Michael Smith (Veshengro)
It is always good to see devices that can turn a plastic soda bottle into something useful, be this a plant watering device, such as by means of the Aqua Drip Water Spike, a bird feeder (we'll come to that one in another article) or whatever else.
While the PET bottle is with us we may as well make use of the empties, whether from our own household or other source(s), in useful ways rather than to send them to recycling immediately.
The Aqua Drip Water Spike by EcoCharlie is a rather ingenious device that is simple and great. Simplicity is all too often much better than anything complicated anyway and far too often misunderstood and works much better in this field as in many others.
The Aqua Drip Water Spike is, at the end of its life, 100% recyclable, just like plastic bottles. I must say, though, that the material from which it is made to me appears to be polypropylene rather than PET, the material from which plastic bottles, primarily, are made.
Aqua Drip Water Spike can be used with plants indoors and outdoors and is especially good for container gardening, whether for flowers or vegetables.
The Aqua Drip Water Spike comes in packs of six at a price, in the UK, of 5.99GBP, with a donation of 20pence going to Oxfam.
The Aqua Drip Water Spike is made in Taiwan, though from my conversation with someone from EcoCharlie at the Garden Press Event 2010 I understood it to be a British product.
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