This is the 101st episode of the Trashmagination podcast, so I’ll take a moment to talk about what I have learned from making 100 podcast episodes on creative reuse. You can listen to my podcast episode about my lessons in this YouTube video. It originally aired in May 2020.

Fun Word Search of Themes from the First 100 Episodes

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The Next 99 Trashmagination Episodes

If you know about artists who use these materials, or you have made something cool from them, let me know!

1. Aluminum cans & pop tabs
2. Animals which reuse
3. Baby Wipe Boxes
4. Beads from recycled materials
5. Bedsheets & Duvet Covers
6. Beer grains & Bread
7. Birthday party activities
8. Blankets
9. Board Games & Pieces
10. Bowling balls & lanes
11. Brushes and Brooms (including paint brushes)
12. Candy pouches
13. Cardboard large sculptures
14. Ceiling Fans
15. Christmas Traditions
16. Clothing Fabric Labels
17. Coaxial Cable / Wire
18. Comics
19. Creative reuse workshops run by refugees
20. Crystal Light containers
21. Cutlery / Silverware / Utensils – plastic & metal
22. Dog & cat sculptures from recycled materials
23. Doors & windows
24. Dryer Lint
25. Event planning – how to creatively reuse at events like weddings
26. Eye glasses & contacts packaging
27. Fairy Gardens
28. Fish Skin & Bones
29. Fixer’s Collectives / Repair Cafes / Tool & Toy Libraries
30. Flooring samples & leftovers
31. Flowers from recycled materials
32. Foam Mattresses
33. Garden & fire hoses
34. Gift & credit cards (expired)
35. Glitter & alternatives
36. Graffiti, Dried Paint & Spray Paint Cans
37. Hair, Fur & Teeth
38. Hangers
39. Hardware – Nails, nuts, bolts & screws
40. Headphones / earphones
41. Health concerns of creatively reusing certain materials
42. Helpful tools for creative reuse enthusiasts
43. Hockey gear
44. Holiday Lights
45. Hotels that creatively reuse
46. Inflatables / Beach Toys / Body Boards / Lifejackets
47. Insects or fish from recycled materials
48. Junk mail & envelopes
49. Keys & locks
50. Kinetic or automata art
51. Leather (belt, couches, coats)
52. Leaves
53. Letters & stamps
54. License plates
55. Lottery tickets
56. LOVEwork signs from recycled materials
57. Magazines
58. Metal bottle caps
59. Military items – Uniforms & ammunition
60. Mittens & Gloves
61. Movie film / Negatives
62. Neoprene / Wetsuits
63. Nut shells
64. Packaging designed from the start to be easily creatively reused
65. Panty Hose / Nylons / Stockings
66. Plastic mesh bags (the kind from vegetables)
67. Plastic shredding machines
68. Plastic soda bottles (2 liter)
69. Toothbrushes & toothpaste tubes
70. Postcards
71. Puppet making
72. Rubber gloves & bands
73. Sails and Buoys
74. Saris
75. Science lessons that involve creative reuse
76. Seat Belts
77. Six-Pack Rings
78. Slides & carousels
79. Spools
80. Steel Drums / Barrels
81. Styrofoam
82. Swim Caps & Bathing Suits
83. Tetrapaks
84. Tins (including Altoid tins)
85. Tires
86. Twist Ties
87. Umbrellas
88. Vehicle parts (planes, trains, cars, motorcycles)
89. Venetian blinds
90. Visible mending & stitching meditation
91. Watch Parts
92. Wax (Babybel, candles)
93. Wooden craft sticks (Popsicle sticks)
94. Yarn bombing & community murals
95. Yoga mat

Episodes Mentioned in this Show

• 16 – Creative Reuse of Stuffed Toys
• 17 – Creative Reuse Business District
• 44 – Musical Instruments made from Recycled Materials
• 84 – Artist Residencies at Landfills
• 97 – Toilet Paper Tubes

Show Details

• Script for this podcast episode about lessons I learned making 100 podcast episodes about creative reuse
• Trashmagination Pinterest Board about money (coins and bills)
• The Trashmagination podcast theme music is Kitchen from the Marian Circle Drum Brigade