by Jennifer on January 10, 2010
The most ambitious step when it comes to egg packaging is to skip it altogether. However unless you have your own chickens and can thus ‘grow’ organic eggs or have an excellent farmer’s market that sells bulk eggs (which you can place in a basket to purchase) you will have to deal with packaging. That said, your first step should be to buy organic eggs that come in easy to recycle packaging. Avoid those icky old Styrofoam egg cartons at all costs.
After making sure you get eggs in recyclable packaging you can still reuse the cartons a few times before you recycle. Here are 16 ways to reuse your egg cartons.
- Seed starters.
- Concrete slabs for the garden.
- Paint trays – these are excellent for this because kids get lots of space to mix different paint colors up.
- Totally AMAZING fairy lights – swoon!
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by Jennifer on December 7, 2009
Just a quickie tonight because I’m dead busy, but I found these adorable cereal box buildings and had to share. Technically, cereal is something you can get in bulk, thus eliminating the box altogether, BUT if you do buy boxed cereal, this is such a cute idea for how to recycle them.
Aren’t these sweet! The ones above are covered with paper of various sorts. You can also make adorable little homes then paint them as seen below. The entire step by step tutorial about how to create these cereal box structures is at Bella Dia. This would be a fun day to spend a chilly afternoon inside with your tot.
[images via Bella Dia]
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