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Recycling in its denotative sense, this pertains to the process of transforming a product back to its original state or re-using it beyond its original use or producing a new product out of the original used material. As the common adage goes, "Reuse, reduce, recycle!" Here are some of the helpful ideas on how to put this into effect.
Reuse
Old paper and cards that you have bought in the previous years may be used again for the following year on the same occasion. In order to preserve them, make sure that you have not removed the plastic containers and if you did, cover or keep them in boxes so that the colors would not tarnish. When it's time to use these cards, try to remake the card by adding beads for example or some laces. But don't overdo. Your card might look like a collage. Worse, you might forget that you are bound to write something on the card. Leave an ample space for your message.
Reduce
Never throw those pieces of paper and card that you thought were no longer useful for you may keep them for some future creative crafts or activities that you may decide to do in the future. Keep them instead in small boxes and segregate them according to size or usability. Put labels on the containers for easy access to these papers. You can utilize the bigger pieces for your card making activity of have them used for printing cards and making a collage. For those tiny pieces, you can shred them and use for your paper mosaic.
Recycle
For those pieces of paper and cards that are either worn out or those that you may decide to throw in bins, cut or shred them instead for recycling. You can buy some silk screen and research on how to recycle them manually. Dry under the sun the recycled paper and you may utilize your finished product as a gift wrapper if it would be huge enough for that purpose. You can also use that recycled paper and cards for another card. Just make sure that you have a sharp cutter for the resulting paper might be quite thick.
See how you can do wonders with your trashes? Not only will this make your room neat and clean, this will help you save too. Reusing gives you a zero cost. But the bigger chunk of it gives the opportunity in saving our planet out of your paper and card recycling.
