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Upcycling DIY Home Projects Ideas
Nov 19, 2022
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Upcycling is reusing waste or unwanted materials without destroying them in order to create something new. Here is a chart of common material and some ideas of DIY Crafts you can do at home
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| Recyclable Material | Ideas/ Crafts |
| Bread Clips | - Cord Organizers |
| Broken Mugs | - Pencil Holders - Plant drainage - mini plant pot |
| Candle Jars | - Fill jars with party favors for social events - Donate to a school or second hand store - Refill with new candles |
| Cassette Tapes | |
| Coffee Grounds | - Compost - Use to keep stray cats out of your garden - Use as exfoliator in homemade skincare - Plant fertilizer |
| Cookie / Biscuit Tins | - Coffee bean/grinds storage - Earrings - Homemade sewing kit - DIY Christmas ornaments |
| DVDs & CDs | - Mobile - Wind chime |
| Film Negatives | - Make a lamp shade - Create a purse using negatives - Give to a film collector |
| Food glass jars | - Drinking glass - Storage containers - DIY snow globes |
| Glass from Picture Frames | - Get mirror spray paint and create mirrors - Use mirror spray paint on broken glass for mosaic art |
| Old Picture Frames | - Framed display board |
| Old Stamps | - Use for craft supplies |
| Pill Bottles | - Donate to animal shelters or veterinarians (call to confirm first) - Use as spice, tea, sugar, coffee containers for hiking |
| Plastic Bottle Caps | - Craft material |
| Plastic Utensils | - Use for craft supplies - Donate to school or artist who needs items for supplies - Donate to 2nd hand craft store |
| Scrap Clothing | - Cut into square, use as cleaning rags - Cut into shreds, use as pillow stuffing - Make dog toys with scrap fabric - Yarn for crafts (look up t-shirt yarn) |
| Twist Ties | - Cable management -Securing plants to posts/cages |
| Unwanted or Damaged Eyeglasses | - Mini photo frames |
| Unwanted or duplicate photographs | - Cut and / or paste to make magnets, badges, ornaments, etc. - make a college - make postcard/greeting cards - Give to a film collector |
| Used Greeting Cards | - Make a college using cards - Use cards again, cover up previous messages - Cut down to use at gift tags - Donate to schools for crafting |
| VHS tapes | - Go to Reddit/VHS give tapes away to collectors |
| Wearable Clothing | - Take to homeless shelter - Take to a thrift store - Give away in yard sale group on Facebook Marketplace |
| Wrapping Paper Scraps | - Use again - Make origami |
| Banana skins | - Plant fertilizer |
| Any paper | - Make handmade paper for crafts - Weave into baskets |
| Food plastic containers | - Pots for plants (make drainage holes and use lid as saucer) |
| Packaging paper | - Wrapping paper (possible to paint designs) |
| Old/stained/ripped sheets | - Dye another color - Make beeswax wraps (only with cotton fabric) - Rags - Rip into yarn for crafts |
| Newspaper | - Wrapping paper - Weave into baskets - Compost |
| Plastic bags | - Make yarn and use for crafts - Use as trash bag |
| Cardboard boxes | - Biodegradable seedling pots |
| Old books | - Black out poetry |
| Toilet paper roll | - Cable organizer - Cutting it makes a great phone holder |
| Wooden Pallets | - Bookshelf |
| IBC Totes | - Water Storage (be careful not to use hazmat totes) |