DIY Recycled Craft Ideas

Time to empty that recycle bin...right into your craft room! With our amazing collection of recycled crafts, you'll find lots of uses for Mason jars, toilet paper rolls, egg cartons, paper plates, and even old sweaters!. Here is all about recycling ideas.

Recycled Handmade Paper Crafts
Usually we have been exposed to the concept of recycling at work. That is, there is a bin for plastic, a bin for paper, a bin for wood, and so forth. We do it because it is company policy, but when the bin goes out the door and comes back empty, we do not give it a second thought. All we have done is categorize the stuff we do not wish to use anymore into someone else's organization regime. They will cart off what we have given them green crafts for children and either make money from it, or turn it into something else that is valuable. That is why they want it. Your company probably gets some sort of monetary reward for giving it to them as well, but not nearly as much as the people taking the waste out of the recycle bins.

Crafts for Wine Bottles
There will certainly be trash that is really trash and junk that is really junk. You know you will have to dispose of it. Often you will be able to incinerate this stuff, or sometimes you can bury it. Then again, you may have to actually have someone haul it off for you. It certainly beats having 1800 square feet of garbage in the back yard does it not? And, on top of that, you have gotten, in most cases, 25 percent more out of the money that you spent on the original item simply by attempting to use everything that came with it and in it.

Newspaper Crafts
There are fantastic books on recycling waste into compost that can be used to grow crops which will later become food for your family. The possibilities are limitless, but you have to commit to the idea of taking trash, junk, and waste, and turning it into a brand new valuable possession. So now it is time to draw bubbles. We call it brainstorming. Take the list of raw materials, and there are probably more than we have mentioned, and put them into big bubbles on a large sheet of paper. From each of these bubbles, draw other circles that radiate out from the source material circles. These secondary circles will be the possible items we can make from the material we recycle. See, once we do it intentionally, it is not nearly as difficult as we may have imagined.