20+ Awesome DIY Ideas For Recycling Old Light Bulbs
When your light bulb stops working, don’t hurry to throw it out – with just a little bit of work, you can give it a new life. There are plenty of creative and fun ways to upcycle this object into many useful things. From vases and candy containers to terrariums and ornaments, the lightbulb’s form lends itself to plenty of functional and aesthetic projects. If you need more ideas for how to recycle useless old stuff,...
40+ Brilliant Ways To Reuse And Recycle Old Tires
Tires are a huge headache when it comes to waste management and recycling, but there are clever DIY ways that each of us can reuse and recycle them and save them from entering the environment or taking up space in our landfills. Most studies indicate that tires will slowly leach toxic chemicals into the surrounding environment, but many of these studies describe long-term effects when exposed to the elements. It’s probably a...
25+ DIY Ideas to Recycle Your Old Wine Bottles
Is your recycling bin overflowing with old wine, beer, and soda bottles? Glass bottles fill local dumps and monster landfill sites all over the world. Instead of tossing those old wine bottles, use them in a variety of wine bottle crafts. You can create lamps, decorative vases, and hurricanes from old wine bottles, and there are many other things to make with wine bottles. Sometimes, simply adding paint, twine, and other decorative...
Turn Old Bottles Into Lamps With Rechargeable LED Corks
Some of our favorite creative products and inventions are ones that give used objects/trash a second life. The rechargeable bottlelight developed by Suck UK, a home accessory and gift company, turns old empty bottles into beautiful, simple table lamps. The lamp looks much like a large tapered wine cork, the bottom of which is a bright white LED light. When switched on and placed inside the bottle’s neck, the lamp will shine for up to...
45+ Creative Recycling Ideas That Bring Trash Back To Life
Recycling stuff is awesome, but actually turning your old stuff and garbage into something new and useful is even more awesome! We love to write about DIY recycling projects, so if you’re looking for any fresh ideas for reusing your old stuff, this is the post for you! If you have a good idea for recycling stuff into something new and useful, add it to this list – bonus points if it’s something you came up with or made by...
41 Ingenious Ways To Reuse Your Broken Things
Just don’t go overboard or you might end up in Hoarders territory. 1. Fill your dyed Easter eggs with beeswax and create tea lights out of them. recycledawblog.blogspot.com More instructions here. 2. Make plant markers out of broken pots. hardlyhousewives.com 3. Or if you’ve got the artistic skill, make a little micro-garden out of those shards. naturework.com 4. Turn a broken table into TWO desks. migonishome.com Get the instructions...