Chewing Gum and Wrapper Creative Reuse
An innovative designer is recycling chewed-up gum into plastic products, and many artists incorporate gum and wrappers into their work.
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.
Have fun with less impact on your camping or hiking trip.
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!
Whether your shoes are in great shape or falling apart, get tips on what you can do to reduce your shoe collection.
Did you know the stickers on fruit are made from plastic? Be sure to remove them before you compost and now get creative ideas for what to do with them.
Let’s make presents for our pets from recycled materials!
Found objects and recycled materials can be a great inspiration for monster sculptures.
The next time a zipper breaks, don’t throw away the item and the zipper! You might be able to salvage both.
A suitcase can be a cat tree and a backpack can be a giant puppet – get creative ideas to make with unwanted or broken luggage.