New Usage for Unwanted Things - Recycling with a Spin

The world is filled with recycling tips. We recycle aluminum cans. We recycle bottles and plastics. The benefits of recycling are obvious. There is less rubbish placed within the landfills and less natural resources have to be used to produce many of the disposables we use everyday. The big picture is it helps the environment and preserving the environment is something we all must work collectively at. Three recycling tips I use regularly that are simple to enact and enables anyone to become apart of the green scene collective are:

I do not throw away my old newspaper, magazine, and junk or unwanted mail. I shred it and donate it to area animal shelters and local veterinary clinics. Many animal care operations use shredded paper as bedding for the animals they care for. Using this method of new usage for unwanted things is another method of recycling. It does take extra efforts but there is more of a sense of doing something good I get out of recycling this way then just dropping off my paper in the recycling bin. Be sure to contact the animal shelters and veterinary clinics first to confirm your donation of shredded paper is needed and wanted.

Unsalted cooking water is an excellent way to feed plants. Food release nutrients of one kind or another into the water they are boiled in. As long as there was no salt added to the water, it should not harm your plants. After you have boiled your food stuff, let the water cool and then use it to water your plants, rather than pouring it down the drain. Hard boiled egg water has Calcium in it. Tomatoes, potatoes, egg plants, peppers, and other solanaceous plants can benefit from this water. Spinach water has iron and potassium nutrients in it. Pasta, potatoes and other starchy foods add starch nutrients which can equally prove beneficial to your house and garden plants. Another easy and doable recycling project anyone can do.

Pennies (our 1 cent coin) have limited value today, so limited in fact that most people discard them. But they can be of some use to window box owner. Generally when it rains or you are watering the window box plants, mud spatters on the window pane and the window wood work. This problem can be solved simply by spreading your unwanted pennies all over the window box soil surface. This will prevent the mud splatter, additionally the copper which leaches from the pennies add nutrients to the soil to aid in the plants development.

These 3 simple recycling tips are an easy way for you to go green. There are many different ways to recycle the unwanted things you have. It takes a little creativity on just how to recycle them but there are tons of ways to recycle unwanted thing into another helpful use. Try these methods, and look around where you are. Do you see how you can recycle with a spin?

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Resource: Personal Experience (things my grandparents and parents use to do)