Recycling Takeout Containers into Everyday Useful Items
A visit to the market may be gloomier than usual these days with the hike in food cost. However, simply going back to the basics and using a gardening green thumb provides an abundance of nutritious food on the dinner table. A bountiful garden not only saves on food cost, it is also a therapeutic opportunity to provide peace of mind knowing where your food is coming from and how it is grown.
It’s not easy being green. Remaining eco-friendly in today’s instant gratification culture challenges us to remain green in an ever evolving society. Takeout food is no different. Our fast-paced culture demands efficiency, convenience, and quite honestly, the taste of a delicious meal inside a clever little box. However, there are useful ways you can recycle takeout containers into beneficial, everyday useable items.
Recycle takeout containers using these fun and thrifty ideas:
Scoops and Buckets
Use plastic, round containers as a beneficial scoop. You can use this especially when portioning pet food. Pack it in your beach bags and use it as a base building supply for sandcastles. Or use them as a rinse bucket when shampooing your babies hair. Poke holes on both sides and slide a string through them, tie around your neck and use as berry picking buckets.
Traveling
Going on a camping trip or a weekend road trip? Save leftover to-go condiment packets, napkins and silverware and pack them with some lunch and hit the road.
Coffee Grounds
Hold coffee grounds separately from compost for a slug deterrent in the garden.
Real Doggie Bags
Going on a day trip with your pup? Your furry friend might get hungry. Fill a takeout container with some dog food and hit the road. Your dog will thank you later.
Food Storage
Plastic takeout containers make wonderful Tupperware containers. Collect them and whenever you have a dinner party, send guests home with leftovers in a fancy takeout box.
Desk Organizer
Desks become easily cluttered with random objects. Save the takeout container you have from an office lunch and divide essential items from the random items floating in your drawers with clean takeout containers.
Paint Trays
If you need to save your paint over night, there’s no better option than plastic sealable takeout containers.
Planters
Plastic, paper, and Styrofoam containers make beneficial planters. Simply poke holes in the bottom for water drainage before planting.
Crafts
Great for storing beads, paints, costume jewelry, or sewing supplies. A clean takeout box makes great storage for crafty folks. Perfect for storing children’s crayons, chalk, markers and stickers as well. Paint and decorate containers and reuse as fun piggy bank containers to keep in the kids room.
Seed Starting Tray
Seeds starting trays can be expensive, especially when you need several to start up your garden and flower beds. Styrofoam takeout containers make wonderful seed starting trays.
Being environmentally conscious takes creativity and time along with a personal desire to continue and maintain a green movement. However, living green and being eco-friendly can be simple and even budget-friendly with a few basic adjustments.
Millennium Waste, Inc. provides Quad Cities garbage service, offering recycling as well and great recycling tips such as recycling takeout containers. Contact your Quad Cities garbage service company today for garbage service and recycling opportunities.
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