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Today’s feature is from RealSimple with an A-Z guide for How to Recycle Anything. There are 8 pages full of items and how to recycle them, did you know:
- Backpacks. The American Birding Association accepts donated backpacks, which its scientists use while tracking neotropical birds (www.americanbirding.org).
- Crayons. Send them to the National Crayon Recycle Program (www.crazycrayons.com), which melts down crayons and reforms them into new ones. Leave the wrappers on: “When you have black, blue, and purple crayons together without wrappers, it’s hard to tell them apart,” says the program’s founder, LuAnn Foty, a.k.a. the Crazy Crayon Lady.
- Fake plastic credit cards. They’re not recyclable, so you can’t just toss them along with their paper junk-mail solicitations. Remove them first and throw them in the trash.
- Formal wear. Finally, a use for that mauve prom or bridesmaid dress: Give it to a girl who can’t afford one (go to www.operationfairydust.org or www.catherinescloset.org).
- Metal flatware. If it’s time to retire your old forks, knives, and spoons, you can usually recycle them with other scrap metal.
- Plastic bottle caps. Toss them. “They’re made from a plastic that melts at a different rate than the bottles, and they degrade the quality of the plastic if they get mixed in,” says Sarah Kite, recycling manager of the Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation, in Johnston, Rhode Island.
- Tinfoil. It’s aluminum, not tin. So rinse it off, wad it up, and toss it in with the beer and soda cans.
Lots of handy information you’ll refer to again and again, please visit the site to view the complete list.
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actually you can usually sell those ugly old dresses (prom to brides maid) on this site. So far I have made about 100 a dress: http://www.craigslist.org/about/sites
I save the “fake” credit cards that come in the mail. They make great book marks. They don’t get torn like the ones you buy from Hallmark. I have several books that I am at various stages of reading. Each one has a fake card in it.
on the fake credit cards if u use a lite sand paper (very fine) do a lil sanding wipe off dust and decorate paint glue pictures on decopauge with any of those scrap papers,ie:wrapping papers etc..they also make good scrapers for glitter and many many other crafting helpers..like clay to smooth it etc…
I take the fake credit cards and let my 2 year old use them as her “credit card” when she plays with her grocery cart, kitchen, and fake food…She loves acting like she’s swiping the card to buy groceries on her toy cash register!
Aveda is now collecting plastic bottle caps for recycling. http://aveda.aveda.com/aboutaveda/caps.asp
Re-use your plastic bottle caps:
http://shop.lidmen.com/pages/make-your-own
It’s every bit as easy as it looks and makes the greatest baby shower gift ever!