This Holiday season why not do something for the environment
and your wallet? WKU Recycling and Surplus want to tell you about upcycling.
Upcycling is taking otherwise trash materials and creating them into something
new and useful. Recycling and Surplus created an upcycled Christmas Tree for
the holiday season.
To create this beauty it took only empty water bottles, soda
cans, hot glue, and a few willing souls.
There are tons of neat ways to upcycle materials in your
home to be used for this Christmas. An example I liked is taking old Christmas
cards and cutting them into gift tags. It is a great way to save money and use
something otherwise thrown out. Plus they look just as good if not better
because they are original.
Another really cool idea is wrapping your gifts in newspaper
or old maps you have lying around the house. It looks really unique in
comparison to everyone else’s wrapping and it didn’t cost a thing out of
pocket. Also you can wrap with an old phone book or brown or white paper and
then decorate the box yourself. It can be designed specifically for the person
the gift is for.
Decorating for Christmas doesn’t have to be hard and costly.
Here are a few ideas for decorations that won’t cost anything and you can enjoy
making with friends and family. If you have old newspaper or books or notebooks
full of assignments don’t throw them out. Make Christmas Trees instead! Take
the pages individually and fold them in half diagonally and glue them together
at the top. You can use a bottom as the topper or and old figurine or you can
create a cloth star with cardboard in the middle and cloth glued around it.
These are just a few ideas on how you can upcycle this
season. It is a very crafty and thrifty way to save money while helping the
environment. I hope this inspired you to get creative!
Merry Christmas!
Recycling and Surplus Associates
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