Do you know – a part of the rubbish you toss into your garbage bin daily can be re-used to serve some other household purpose?
This way you can save yourself money by using these as substitute items for things you would have had to buy otherwise. This will, in turn, control your inorganic waste contribution for landfill.
Here is a short list of articles you can recycle without any entailing trouble:
1) Old CDs: Make artistic coasters out of old CDs by drawing or painting on them or coating the upper surface with magazine pictures and bottom surface with felt.
2) Carry Bags: Use plastic bags as garbage bags or carry it along to get items from your nearby departmental store.
Use paper bags as gift-wrappers or as paper to jot down things you need to purchase. Wet-wipe containers can serve as great string dispensers.
You can easily use take-away containers, glass jars and small pots to store cakes, needles, threads, buttons, coffee beans and spices.
Try filling little lip balm boxes and toiletry containers from bigger bottles. They make compact travel-friendly packs.
3) Twist Ties/Ropes: These can prove considerably helpful to secure wires and other material while shifting homes or to simply store junk in your storage room.
4) Old Envelopes: Reuse an old envelope by sticking a new address slip over the former address section. You can use them as scrap paper alternatives as well.
5) Scrap Paper/Newspaper: Utilize newspapers to package belongings while shifting or to package items neatly, mark and keep away for later use. You can make use of scrap paper as scribbling or doodling paper. A creative hand-made Birthday or New Year card is always treated specially and you can make one from old postcards, stamps and photos using material such as sequins, sand, beads and threads to decorate.
6) Cardboard/Bubble Wrap/Foam: Keep your objects safe while moving out/in by covering them with bubble wrap or foam before placing them in cardboard boxes. It can also be used as an insulation material on walls and floors.
7) Tyres: Recraft old vehicle tyres into funky tyre-swings and place them in your balcony, garden or terrace.
8) Scrap Wood: Wood scraps can be used to make handicraft items, a small corner table or a spice rack. People with an in-house fireplace will surely love the idea of free firewood.
9) Cork: Use these to make cork message boards, key-chains or to beautify your front door.
10) Old Clothes: If you have clothes you no longer want to wear nor want to throw away, you may cut them out to make pretty covers for your pillows, sofa cushions or teapots.
Get creative by cutting patches from your old denims and stitching them onto new ones.
So, if something you consider useless is lying in some dusty corner of your home, pick it up, dust it off & start putting it to some good use!
And if you have clothes, books or furnitures that you absolutely don’t want to keep, you may consider giving them away to NGOs for people who will be happy to use them.
