My motto is that we should all try to reuse before we recycle.
When you often buy the same item, you can store up on the styrofoam or plastic containers. When you often eat salads at the same fast food restaurant, you will end up with a large collection of the same size container and lid. Simply drop these off to an art teacher in an elementary school or a pre-school nearby your home. These will make great creative frames for pictures or paintings that the children are making and turn them into nice Mother's, Father's, or Grandparent's Day gifts.
As long as you have enough for a whole class, you will see a creative art teacher making great use of these containers!
If you only have a few of the same container, find an adult with that number of children in their lives who will find a creative art project for their own children (or grandchildren when they are visiting). I especially love to save the red containers from Valentine's candy. And, any high quality box of chocolates will have the candy separation plastic liner, which is perfect for dipping a small paint brush in to clean it off between various watercolor paints for bright pictures, rather than dulling brown mixtures that come from washes your brush in the same old water.
The Queen of "Reuse before you Recycle"of MD11:10AM March 22, 2011
When I shop, I shop for items in pretty containers or pretty glass jars and keep them to store nick-naks, afterwards.
I keep the large containers of ground coffee, wash them and use them as cannisters to store beans, rice, noodles, sugar and all kinds of dry foods.
People that live in crowded places would benefit from this because it keeps rodents, and bugs from tearing or chewing on paper bags of floor, rice etc. It is very sanitary and you can control your food storage and keep your cabinets and kitchen clean.
I've done this for years and bugs do not look for food in my house and they simply starve to death.
Starve the bugsof TX6:33PM March 12, 2011
I use the bag sheet sets come in for garbage in the car, keep many pairs of socks in, sets of summer clothes for camping,shoes, etc. They fit under the bed easily. I use the hard plastic pkging on items to make jello in fun shapes. Old phone book can be hollowed out and lacquered, easy collection box for yard sales, jewelry,etc. Ready cooked bacon plastic containers make easy molds for plaster of paris projects and even concrete pavers to face outdoor projects.
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The Queen of "Reuse before you Recycle" of MD 11:10AM March 22, 2011
Starve the bugs of TX 6:33PM March 12, 2011
wendy of NY 10:38AM March 07, 2011