3 Basic Ways to Recycle in your Home

Recycling in Canadian households is having a tremendously positive impact on waste management. As recycling practices have continued to be implemented country-wide in residential settings, more is being done to protect Canada’s natural resources and to minimize landfill waste. Though each municipality comes with its own recycling rules regarding what products can and cannot be recycled, there’s a lot that households can be doing independent of any local program. In fact, you may already be doing a few of these basic ways to recycle in your home.

Arts, Crafts, and Decorating

Browsing the Internet, on sites like Pinterest and Instagram, there are some great ideas on how to take waste products and turn them into decoration for the home. For example, taking apart old pallets can be used for a wide range of different projects. Tin cans can be repurposed as a candle holder. Bed pillows, old shirts, and other materials can be combined into a throw pillow that uniquely represents your artistic skill. Needless to say, almost any item we throw out in the trash could potentially be repurposed.

Gardening

The act of gardening provides unique opportunities to reuse household items, and to build a relationship between your home and the environment around it. Take inventory of the common items a lot of us throw out. Tin cans and coffee cans, for example, are ideal for plants. Plastic laundry soap bottles can be used as drip trays for the bottom of planters. Popsicle sticks can be used as labelling. Soda bottles can be used as a watering can, simply by poking a hole in its lid. These are just a few of the ways Canadians have reused common products for their gardens.

Pets

If you have pets, you know how much they value their own space. Consider reusing some of your household waste to manufacture different products for your cat or dog. Blankets and pillows are easy enough to wash, and then reused as a sleeping bed. Carpet scraps can be cut into a feeding area. A wide range of plastic packaging products also have the potential to be used as food storage items. If none of these options entertain you, feel encouraged to evaluate the household waste you’re producing to identify other materials for recycling by this method.

These are three basic ways to recycle in your home and there are evidently plenty of others. As parents and homeowners ourselves, we know the power of cutting down on waste. To our children, it sends a strong message to be aware of the waste we create. To our properties, recycling and reusing are key opportunities to diversify the aesthetic and create a more environmentally-friendly space for one and all. Before we throw anything away, we try our best to evaluate the possibility of reuse and that’s something we believe that every residential or commercial property should be doing.

For Canadian households interested in implementing better waste management and recycling practices, in need of some junk removal, or who wish to rent a dumpster or waste container to eliminate bulky household waste, speak to a representative today. Core Mini Bins would be more than happy to recommend an environmentally-friendly solution to minimize landfill waste, and create a healthier environment for you and your loved ones.