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Upcycling Day 💚 15 Creative Ideas to Repurpose

Upcycling Day 💚 15 Creative Ideas to Repurpose | ecogreenlove

If you happen to have old CDs, plastic bottle caps, aluminium pop tabs, chips can tube or old/broken kitchen utensils, give it a try to these ideas and turn “trash” into something functional or decorative.

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Genius Ways to Repurpose K-Cups [Visual]

Genius Ways to Repurpose K-Cups [Visual] | ecogreenlove

K-Cups make life easier in a lot of ways. They’re fast, convenient, and a surefire way to satisfy a caffeine addiction.

There’s just one (big) problem with these little coffee dispensers: K-Cups are a bane for the environment. Once plastic ends up in landfills, it remains there for hundreds, maybe even thousands, of years. These landfills pollute air, land, and water; destroy wildlife habitat; and are major sources of greenhouse gases, which speed up climate change.

There are several ways to reduce K-Cups’ environmental impact (outside of not using them in the first place). For starters, there are more and more opportunities to recycle K-Cups. If that’s not an option where you live, then don’t give up hope: It’s also possible to keep K-Cups out of the waste stream by creatively reusing them.

What good is a used K-Cup, you might wonder? Turns out, it can be used in a multitude of ways. Here are just a couple of the many creative ways to reuse K-Cups 💚

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Ideas para Reutilizar las Bolsas de Papitas

Ideas para Reutilizar las Bolsas de Papitas | ecogreenlove

Hola! Gracias por visitar y por tu interés de cuidar al planeta empezando con pequeños pasos cómo reducir tu basura y reutilizar materiales del diario.

En ésta publicación te mostraremos paso a paso algunas ideas para reutilizar las bolsas de papitas (tuyas o de tus hijos). Si quieres ver más ideas para reutilizar otros materiales, dale click aquí opens in a new window y explora nuestra sección de Reuso para inspirarte con muchas imágenes, ideas y tutoriales. Ponemos unos ejemplos al final de éste compendio de ideas 😉

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Home building Materials you can Repurpose

Home building Materials you can Repurpose | ecogreenlove

When it comes to saving money on home renovation, repurposing as a means of recycling represents one of the cleverest and most pro-like moves you can pull off. The idea behind this is quite simple – you pick building materials that are well-known for their recyclable qualities, use the structures made out of them for as long as you can, and then salvage the leftovers after the building in question had its run.

Indeed, whether it’s roofing, flooring, wall structure, or bathroom fit-outs, the materials you’re using can last you years to come – be it in their fully assembled condition, or as a scraps you can repurpose for other projects!

Now then, in this article, we’re going to talk about what materials you can use in order to make your house renovation project not only a smart one while you’re doing it, but also a potentially lucrative one down the road.

So, without further ado, here are our ‘repurposeable’ building materials!

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Upcycling old Sponges with your Kids [Infographic]

Upcycling old Sponges with your Kids [Infographic] | ecogreenlove

What better way to guide your kids into a green lifestyle than playing and crafting together with them showing them there can be other purposes to something broken or used. Here is an activity you might enjoy with your kids: reusing a sponge, very simple and quick going green.

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