You put most holiday or greeting cards in paper recycling, but some require more creative reuse. Get tips on where you can send used holiday and greeting cards to help others, or get inspired to make holiday decorations from them.
From shrunken felted sweaters to tiny balls of leftover yarn, get ideas for ways to creatively reuse your sweaters, wool and yarn.
Memory keepsakes are items made from clothing when someone passes away.
Many people wrap gifts in brown paper bags or fabric, but that is only the start of ways you can wrap gifts without creating trash.
Make a beautiful and reusable gift tag and bow from recycled plastic materials to reduce holiday packaging waste.
Avoid buying more plastic and make spooky decorations from recycled materials this Halloween!
Get strategies to help you achieve your goals of minimalism AND creative reuse!
An innovative designer is recycling chewed-up gum into plastic products, and many artists incorporate gum and wrappers into their work.
Make jewelry, home decor and even musical instruments from bicycle parts such as chains, spokes, rims, gears, brake cables, handlebars, pedals, seats and frames.
You can make mosaic tiles, toy hover crafts and hand weights from discarded CDs and DVDs, and that’s just the start of the many beautiful and useful items you can make
How many plastic containers in your home could you replace with glass containers?
Art and crafts from cigarette butts? Disgusting! Get amazed by what people have made from thousands of cigarette butts, plastic lighters, cigarette packaging, cigar boxes and cigarette vending machines.
Trashmagination is working on a prototype of giant flowers, and I need your tent poles and colorful plastic bottles.
What can you make with jeans that are out-of-style, ripped beyond repair or painted, or with the leftovers when you make a quilt from jeans?
Even if you don’t have kids, playgrounds can be a great case study in creative reuse. Come learn about playgrounds made from recycled tires, wood, metal, plastic, cardboard and fabric.
I designed a clementine box craft called a lenticular photo display using the triangular wood shapes from clementine boxes.
Bread tags or clips may seem like a small item, but when you realize that there are millions of them in the world, it adds up to a lot of plastic that is challenging to recycle.
Plastic clamshell packaging often cannot be recycled, resulting in people “wishcycling” it in their recycling bins.
Global demand for disposable chopsticks has been increasing so remember to carry your own, and get ideas on creatively reusing your old disposable ones.
Each month, I make a handmade gift for my grandmother Rea from recycled materials – which brings her joy and increases my discipline around getting creative projects done.
Prescription packaging and medical supplies can be tough to recycle, but there are creative ways to reuse prescription bottles, blister packs and other supplies.
Many performance groups specialize in making musical instruments from trash, and so can you – especially a Newfoundland Ugly
Stick!
Did you know some teabags contain plastic, so they will not decompose in your compost bin?
The Sixth International Marine Debris Conference is taking place, people are heading out on spring break, and people are figuring out that plastic straws are terrible – it’s time to make art from beach trash!
T-shirts have a big environmental impact but luckily there are a ton of ways to creatively reuse t-shirts – so let’s get busy!
