Your Questions About Recycling

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There is a lot of great info on crafts to make and sell online.

I found a few with a simple search, the best seemed to be this one:
http://www.craftmarketer.com/crafts-to-make-and-sell.htm

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Have you tried posting this in the free section of craigslist.org? They have a sale/wanted section that you can post things in. I know that I go there if freecycle doesn’t work for me. Also, you could try posting on a message board for your local arts college. I wish I lived nearby!

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I’ve seen people use it to:

Cover boxes for storage
Cover a waste paper basket
Cover a can for pencils
Make a picture frame
Use it to make greeting cards

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If you know how to crochet, you can cut plastic bags into loops, connect them together, and use it like yarn to crochet. It makes a pretty cool bag once you attach a handle. You can also crochet strips of old jeans to make a rug. You can probably find patterns for these online.

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Think out of the box.
Instead focusing on product, focus on customers. Look around you and see what type of customers there are:
Maybe you have retirement village near by, maybe a building site, maybe a busy picnic area, Maybe a church. Obviously there is a school. Maybe there is a shopping centre, a factory?
Do you see where I am getting? Each of these attract different category of people (old, young, tourists, shoppers etc)

Now you can think what you could sell to each group of people.
Fruit salad at retirement village, sandwiches and pies at building site,
Craft at shopping centre, refreshments and craft at picnic site,

This is what entrepreneur does:
You contact recycling agency and find out how much they pay for various recycling items. Then you employ friends to collect recycling material around town and deliver to a “depot”, you pay your “employees” 1/2 the money you will receive from recycling plant.

What just happened?
You help your friends make money, you help environment, and you made money. You made money and did not even work. You got paid for putting deal together.
Because you did your market research you can tell your friends where they can sell their products and charge them commission.
That is what Entrepreneur does. The others are just employees in their own business.

What ever you do keep an open mind and do it. If you make mistake you have one mistake less to your success.

Good luck

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The teenagers around here are really into the recycled carton bags. To make they are basically cut into strips and plaited or woven.

Recycling old clothes is another popular one, or clothes made from rubbish, then put on a fashion show to get the message across.

What about revamping old t-shirts with tie dying, fabric art etc.

Recycling old cds – see link below

What about ‘junk’ jewelery. Or using small scraps of wood to make bat boxes, bird boxes or a joint project such as a bird table or dove cote?

Any project that is to do with computers or mobile phones will go down well too.

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My daughter made a castle in Brownies out of paper towel and toilet paper tubes. They positioned the tubes together vertically and put glue in between. They then stretched a rubber band around the whole thing to hold it in place until the glue dried. They made little construction paper cones for roofs on the tubes making then into castle towers, and used makers to draw doors and windows.

Have fun!

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Thats a good question! Call the corporate office and find out or just ask the manager. That would be awesome is all of the stores recycled.

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Scrapbooks, photo mats in a small frame, or frame the picture without a photo with it, small envelopes for scrapbooks. Recycle into cards.