Easy-To-Follow Home Recycling Tips

Easy to follow home recycling tips with some do it yourself (DIY) videos

The incessant talk about global warming, pollution, the use of fossil fuels, and the destruction of our forests has spurred more and more people to come up with innovative ideas on how they can help clean up the planet, and prevent further damage to it.

If each individual on the planet did his or her own small thing, such as recycle, it all should add up to one significant change, as well as help make a big difference in the long term. Reusing, reducing and recycling waste needs to start at home. Here are a few recycling tips that you can easily follow at home.

Re-Use Scrap Paper, And Do Not Throw Your Old Newspapers

Your old newspapers can still do a lot of helpful stuff. They can be reused for packing your valuables into your storage boxes, and can be used in your kitty litter box. Scrap paper can also reused. Use up both sides to print documents, unless you’re printing a very important office or business document. You can also send your old newspapers to a collection facility for proper recycling.

Making a Basket From Recycled Newspapers (video tutorial)

Handmade newspaper basket - is wonderful stuff for everything! You can put candies into it, or your post (envelopes for example), or whatever you want. Recycled Newspapers should be used not for rubbish - just for the great things like this kind of craft. You can leave ready paper basket without coloring, but it looks awesome when it's painted. For painting I use spray paint - paper does not absorb it. It is easy step by step tutorial - how to make a basket from recycled newspaper

Plastic Bottles Can Be Recycled

Set aside an area in your garage or storage room for storing plastic bottles. If your town or city has a collection facility or pick-up point, recycle your plastic bottles there. Ice cream and yogurt plastic containers can be reused to store candies, biscuits and other items, and may also be used for storing your kids’ crayons, pens and small toys.

Recycle Plastic Bottels into Flowers (video)

This tutorial shows how to make beautiful and colorful flowers out of recycled plastic water bottles. If you paint only at the back side of the flower, it will get the glass like shiny look from the front view.

How To Recycle Old Electronic Items

Ensure that all the batteries you use for your flashlights, cell phones and toys are sent to recycling centers, because throwing these in the garbage bin may harm the environment. Any broken electronic appliances or items may also be repaired and reused at home too. However, irreparable electronic items can be sold as junk, or sent to a collection facility for proper recycling and disposal.

Recycle that old PC and build a Proxmox Virtual Environment (video)

This time on Hak5 Darren brings new life to an old editing rig with Proxmox-VE, an open source virtualization platform.

Recycling Kitchen Waste

Kitchen waste, especially the organic ones, can be used as manure or fertilizer, once these have been placed in a compost pit. The productive use of kitchen wastes helps reduce a town or city’s sewage and garbage problems. The tin cans which often accumulate in your kitchen can also be collected and crushed, and sent to a recycling facility.

Compost While You Cook (video)

Whether you're an amateur chef or the kind of person who just eats to live -- you can help the environment by composting while you cook. Brian Turner shows you how easy it is to cut down on the rubbish sent to landfill in our short film.

Worm Composting (video from University of Maine Cooperative Extension) (video)

University of Maine Cooperative Extension educator Marjorie Peronto discusses the benefits and best methods of worm composting.

Worm Composting Bin - Moving Away From Plastic (video)

This video shows what happens when your worm composting bin doesn't get enough air and drainage. This is often the case with Rubbermaid worm bins and many plastic bins in general. My suggestion - Build your own bin by up-cycling an old shelf, drawer, fencing material, etc. Wood may be heavier than plastic, but it allows for better aeration in your bin and it's not synthetic.

Be Earth-Friendly When Going Shopping

When shopping or going to the grocery, always bring a cloth bag, and avoid using plastic shopping bags, because these are very hard to recycle. In addition, buy goods or products that are made from recycled materials, or use recycled materials for packaging.


These are but a few of the many things that you can do to help make our world a cleaner and safer place to live in. With a lot of research and simple innovation, you can actually make a difference for the planet.

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