Your Questions About Recycling

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Salvation Army. If they can’t sell something because of condition, what do you think they do with it? They sell to a recycler. You are actually donating twice. If a financially strapped person can only afford them, that’s once. If no one buys them, you are giving the Salvation Army money to help someone else.

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Hi,
Here are two ideas for our milk jugs and soda bottles:
1) Make a bird feeder, the plastic is durable and last for years! Just cut and decorate, fill with food after hanging and the birds will flock to it! We use twine loops to hang ours or recycled posts to mount them!
2) At a recent craft show I saw a lady who was making BIG BUCKS with a recycled craft idea. She uses soda bottles and cuts out different patterns. Then decorates with “puffy” paint (from craft stores) and beads. She places a small suction cup on the back attached with hot glue. Sells them as window decorations, like stained glass ones! At the show I was at she had small ones for $3.00 or 2 for $5.00. Her larger, more detailed ones were $5.00 or 2 for $7.50. Her daughter made “tiny” ones especially for little kids and was selling them for $1.00. They were selling like crazy! I confess ~ I came home with one of each! Hope this inspires the crafters in each of us! ~ Aimee

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I remember doing one with my nephew.
We constructed a “robot”. We got an old yogurt container (head), old shoe box (body), used plastic cups (hands and legs). We covered the body with cut out pieces of a paper bag and colored. Hope this helps.

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I can give you some ideas using recycled materials-I do crafts with them all the time; I just don’t understand what you mean by “stick in my note”….Unless it’s just for your own records.
I make dolls using recycled soda, juice or water bottles. I attach a doll head and make an outfit to “fit”.
I use scrap fabric to make wreaths.
I’ve made angels using cardboard, paper towels, wallpaper paste and tissue paper (crinkled to form the wings).
I’ve even made stuffed animals and used sand (placed in a plastic bag -(from grocery stores etc) so the sand wouldn’t spill- as a weight to keep the toy from toppling over.
There are tons of recycled material you can make over.

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Go to the Yellow pages under the heading “Insurance.” Look for agents who sell commercial general liability insurance.

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A cool thing to do would be to make instruments! Check out this video here of a guy with some glass bottles and an RC car – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed4CHkN-Dkw

You might not be able to amount to this, but see what you can do! You can adjust the pitch by filling the glass with more water or less water. 🙂

Hope I helped!

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Bird feeders made from plastic pop bottles are always a hit. Look up tutorials online if you need one.

Some people collect dryer lint to give to the birds in the spring to line their nests with. Honest. The birds really like it! Make something in which to collect the lint.

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Origami is usually pretty cool,
get a pinterest!
It has alot of ideas for cool crafts:)

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