Recycling and Reusing Plastic
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Fun Ways to Recycle or Reuse Plastic
Recycling your plastic is great for the environment, but before you transport them to the recycling center, think of what you can DO with them. Plastic has some wonderful reuses around the home and garden. Below is a collection of quick and easy ideas to reuse plastic.
Recycling Plastic
If you don't REUSE your plastic, this handy recycle center locator will help you find the closest recycle center simply by typing in your zip code. Plastic is not biodegradable and if it ends up in the landfill, it will stay there virtually forever without decomposing.
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Recycling Plastic
If you don't REUSE your plastic, this handy recycle center locator will help you find the closest recycle center simply by typing in your zip code. Plastic is not biodegradable and if it ends up in the landfill, it will stay there virtually forever without decomposing.
Photo by HSSchulte
Reusing Plastic Easter Eggs
10 Fun Preschool Learning Games for Reusing and Recycling Easter Eggs
The Play House blog features 10 Ways to Reuse Plastic Easter Eggs. After the holiday has passed, don't throw those plastic eggs out! You can use them to make learning games. These 10 ideas focus primarily on preschool age children, but you can use them to inspire more ideas. I'm particularly fond of the alphabet upper and lower case match game. A perfect way to teach young children and reuse plastic at the same time.10 Fun Learning Games to Reuse Plastic Easter Eggs
Reuse Plastic Yogurt Containers to Start Seeds
# 1 Way to Reuse Plastic
Plastic yogurt containers are the perfect size for starting seeds. Poke a hole in the bottom of the container and fill each little seed pot with dirt. It works best if you nestle them closely together in a large flat container to make it easy to transport them when moving them to the garden.How to Reuse Yogurt Containers to Start Seeds
Reusing Plastic for Organization
#2 Way to Reuse Plastic
There was a time that I saw my overflowing plastic recycle bin as a nuisance. Now, I see it as an opportunity to get organized. By decorating plastic containers, you can organize almost anything. I used these large gallon size vinegar bottles to store my kids bubbles (a summertime favorite). Bottles to Store Pencils, Pens and Markers
#3 Way to Reuse Plastic
Reusing smaller plastic bottles, such as water or soda bottles, works perfectly for pencils, pens or markers. You can decorate the outside of the container, or leave it plain to better see the contents. Organization magic! Berry Containers to Store Supplies
#4 Way to Reuse Plastic
These plastic berry containers worked perfectly for grouping flashcards, small books and cards. They are just the right size to group and stack educational supplies. My once cluttered mess is now organized, making it easy to find just the thing you are looking for. The berry containers are clear, but you can also add a label to aid in identifying the contents.More Ideas to Reuse Plastic Berry Containers
Plastic Boxes for Storage
#5 Way to Reuse Plastic
This plastic container once held potato salad. After a warm bath, and a little contact paper decorating, it was the perfect place to store CDs running loose around my home. Reuse Plastic Bottles in Crafts
#7 Way to Reuse Plastic
Plastic Bottle Flowers
Recycled crafts are a great way to repurpose old plastic into something new. Recycled crafts provide children with something to do on a rainy day. There are also a variety of adult crafts to put those old plastic bottles to amazing uses. This sample of flowers is only the beginning. For more ideas on using plastic bottles in crafts visit "How to Reuse Plastic Bottles in Crafts."
Plastic Bags
#8 - Ways to Reuse Plastic
If you do not recycle, one of the kindest things you can do for the environment is ask for paper bags when you shop. Paper is biodegradable and decomposes eventually in the landfill. Plastic bags do not and they stick around filling up dumps far too long. In some countries they have actually been outlawed.If you have plastic bags you want to reuse, here are a few cool craft ideas to do that:
Make Granny Squares from Plastic Bags
Use Plastic Bags as Plastic Yarn
Also, after the craft has outworn it's welcome, please go ahead and recycle those plastic bags.
Purse
Made from recycling plastic grocery bags
On a smaller scale, try this grocery bag purse made by crocheting plastic yarn. It's finished dimensions are 8 X 9 inches. The instructions indicate that it takes 30 minutes to and hour to finish. If you are new to using plarn, it will take you at least that long to cut the grocery bags into strips. I anticipate 4 hours to be a much more accurate time estimate from start to finish and if you are experienced in crochet. You will need lots of plastic grocery bags and a large crochet hook (size N).Granny Square Purse
More Ways to Reuse Plastic
- Recycled Plastic Bag Purse - DIY Craft Project Instructions
- Recycled Plastic Bag Purse - free DIY craft project tutorial and instructions for this, and thousands of other handmade projects
- Holiday Coffee Containers - DIY Craft Project Instructions
- Holiday Coffee Containers - free DIY craft project tutorial and instructions for this, and thousands of other handmade projects
- Carton Catchers - RePlayGround
- Carton Catchers description: What do you get when you combine an empty milk carton with a cardboard toilet paper tube? You get a carton catcher! It's no joke that with a little bit of craftiness you can convert a
- 6 More Ways to Reuse Plastic Pop Bottles in Crafts and around the Home
- Even if you don't make a habit of buying plastic water or pop bottles, they have a way of showing up in your home. Friends and family stopping by with throw them away. Save them from the trash bin and put them to good use. There are so many ways to reuse plastic bottles in your home.
- Reusing Plastic Bags and Cans
- Do you have plastic cans you would like to recycle into crafts. Learn to make a drum or a memory time capsule from your old can.
What about those ever abundant plastic grocery bags? Here are some knifty tips for turning them into crafts as well.
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