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Recycled Products
Did you know that recycling not only keeps items out of landfills, but also can be used for additional products? There are thousands of products on the market today that are made from recycled goods. Recycled newspapers can be made into paper bags and more newspaper. Recycled magazines can be used to make toilet paper and tissue. However, outside of the more obvious, discarded plastic bottles can be made into a variety of textiles from blankets and jackets to stuffed animals. Old denim and paper can be transformed into pencils.
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Turn It Into... |
| Soft drink bottles |
Carpet yarns, textiles, lumber, fencing, furniture, clothing, animal pens and combs |
| Milk, water and juice containers, trash bags, shopping bags |
Liquid laundry detergent containers, recycling bins, benches, bird feeders, dog houses, floor tiles, clipboards, fly swatters, vitamin bottles and flowerpots |
| Food packaging, shampoo bottles, fluid containers |
Air bubble cushioning, Frisbees, decking, film, paneling, roadway gutters, playground equipment and siding |
| Plastic film for bread, dry cleaning bags, grocery bags |
Shipping envelopes, floor tiles, furniture, film, compost bins, paneling, trash cans, landscape timber and mud flaps |
| Battery cases, yogurt, margarine, ketchup, syrup containers, prescription bottles |
Auto battery cases, signal lights, battery cables, brooms, brushes, ice scrapers, oil funnels, landscape borders and bike racks |
| C.D. jackets, coffee cups, grocery store meat trays, egg cartons, aspirin bottles |
Thermometers, light switch plates, thermal insulation, egg cartons, desk trays, rulers, license plate frames, video cassettes and cafeteria trays |
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