Since we’ve started up this waste reducing business we’ve
been keeping our eyes and ears open for recycling opportunities.
Reducing waste
is better, I know, and that is what I am trying to sell you, but sometimes packaging
can’t be avoided, at least, not yet. So recycling is the next best thing.
Let me tell you about a couple of nice recycling projects
that I’ve found:
Wooden cheese boards
When we have meetings in the office sometimes cheese is
ordered in to prevent the participants from starving to death. The cheese is
delivered on disposable wooden boards.
Disposable? Didn’t think so….
I contacted one of my friends who is a painter. She used
them as canvases and made these...
Gin bottles
We love our gin & tonic.
My friend who makes the lovely paintings on the cheeseboards
stores her paint in…. exactly:
empty Gordon’s gin bottles.
Whilst I like a good
quality bottle of gin which you can’t always find in the supermarket, sometimes
I do have to resort to what’s available in the supermarket.
Knowing that she will recycle the bottle, I know which gin I’ll
buy.
Nail varnish
On a Facebook page called ‘free & recycled Antwerp” I
found a guy who was looking for old nail varnish which he uses to make little
pieces of art.
I contacted him, and we exchanged old nail varnish for pictures of
his artworks.
Candle Wax
I take my old candle wax to a neighbour who turns it into
new candles.
Karine
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