Being stuck at home all day means a lot of us are having to rely even more on online shopping and home delivery to provide us with everything we need to stay not only alive but sane.
Sure, the convenience is great, but all these deliveries mean a lot of empty boxes and packaging materials littering your home or filling up your garbage or recycling bins. I came across an article talking about how Samsung is introducing some new eco-friendly packaging for some of their TV products. With a focus on reusability in some pretty neat and artistic ways and that got me thinking that we can all be taking steps like this with our everyday packaging materials just laying around the house.
Here’s a few ideas to reuse packaging.
Get empty plastic bags in the house for many shopping trips that you’ve taken recently. Be sure to save these, not only can they be reused as actual bags but a decent collection of them can actually be used as effective dunnage when shipping a fragile item. Empty out the remaining coffee grounds and tea leaves from Nek cups or tea bags you might be using it to your garden. This excess that would usually end up in the garbage can actually act as a pretty effective fertilizer. When you’ve finished up a carton of eggs, try and level up your gardening skill by using the individual pods as seedling starters, and just like plastic bags, egg cartons can actually be used as dunnage as well. They’re designed to protect eggs after all, or you know you could still create the world’s tiniest tree.
There’s an endless list out there for fun homemade craft ideas that can be created out of empty packaging materials. This could act as a great way to occupy your kiddos or as a creative release to get you away from those spreadsheets for a few hours.
Still not enough? Well, I’ve got a few ideas of my own as well. Don’t feel like doing your laundry, bubble mailers make for surprisingly comfortable socks. Families dressing you out? Try going to your happy place with this innovative box blinder. Miss live music? Anyone can play the drums right. Grab those old paper towel rolls and just hit something. Got packaging peanuts? See how many it takes to fill up your bathtub. Why not? You’ve got time, there you have it. Plenty of ways to reuse all that packaging you’ve been getting at your house.
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