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Recycled Paper Art and Craft
Ways to craft paper into beautiful and useful recycled pieces..
Recycled paper basket DIY tutorial
as seen on duitang.com
Recycled magazine butterflies
as seen on Basteln
Recycled magazine bead earrings
c/o RecycledFashion on Recycled Market
by BluReco on Recycled Market
by BluReco on Recycled Market
Recycled map origami paper swan
by Ruti’s Roots on Recycled Market
Fair trade newspaper gift bags
by ‘I’ve No Idea‘ on Recycled Market
Recycled Music Note Kusudama Flower Ball Origami
by Meligami on Recycled Market
Recycled magazine bracelets made in Uganda
by AfriBeads on Recycled Market
Fair Trade Gift Bags made from Recycled Newspaper
New to Recycled Market, we have fair trade gift bags, which are made from recycled newspaper in India.
The bags are offered by a Recycled Market Seller that goes by the name of “I’ve No Idea”
These eco recycled newspaper bags are made by an NGO whose main objective is to provide education and shelter to street children. The organisation started in 2004 by street children who wanted to give something back in return for the opportunities which had allowed them to escape desperate circumstances.
These elder children, now married with children of their own, generate an income by making newspaper bags and jute items. This allows them to take care of thirteen street children that they have saved from the streets surrounding Delhi train station. Support for this project means that these children can enjoy going to school and playing, rather than pulling rickshaws, shoe polishing, rag picking and worse. The newspapers are collected by bicycle rickshaw calling at residential homes for any read newspapers.
This is why sometimes your recycled newspaper bag will have a completed crossword! Much better than a plastic bag!
Buying a set of 5 means (they are sold in a bundle of 5) you can keep in your cupboard, and use as eco-friendly recycled gift wrap for gifts throughout the year.
The value of recycled craft
Some of you may be aware that Recycled Market’s co-founder, Erica, makes her own recycled crafts, which is one of the reasons Recycled Market exists today.
A few weeks ago, Erica participated in Megan Bayliss’ Junk Wave workshop in Melbourne, and was taught a technique of handcrafting bags from food packaging. Here is Erica’s completed bag:
Although Megan can complete a bag within three hours, Erica’s bag took the best part of a week to complete. Once a new technique is mastered, of course the completion time will reduce, but this did leave us with a thought, we have the following upcycled food packaging bags for sale on Recycled Market which are really good value for money, considering the time taken to handcraft them.
Other upcycled food packaging bags available to buy on Recycled Market include L’air de Rien’s milk carton tote bags..
If one raises questions as to the cost of goods made with recycled material, one must also consider the time taken to create the end product.
A lot of time is spent sourcing and cleaning old and used materials, whether that be food packaging, fabric, vinyl, wood, metal or otherwise. A great deal of time is spent making the end piece, and then there is the additional time-consuming process of presenting the item for sale, which for many artists is the hardest part of all.
Using recycled material may reduce the initial cost of obtaining material, but one must consider the additional factors involved when buying a recycled product. Recycled products have far greater value for our planet’s natural resources than buying a new ‘cheaper’ product, which may also raise questions as to the (un) ethical conditions with which the product has been made.
Recycled Weekly News #2
This week’s recycled news sourced from around the net, bought to you by Recycled Market
A hockey puck, repurposed door knob, found here
This lamp found on GadgetSponge.com, was made out of a vintage minnow bucket, an old aluminum commercial strainer and a copper sauce pan as the lamp body, with recycled garden faucet handles/valves on top, a chopped candy dish as the bottom, and the base is an old lid to a pot. Finished off with a bicycle seat spring!
A tutorial to make a tiny booklet, from a recycled match book here
High School juniors win $5,000 for recycled steel water bottle plan. “Two 17-year-old juniors at East High School, Colin Johnson and Damien Gilbert, seem slightly surprised to have won $5000.” “The boys came up with a winning proposal to create steel water bottles out of recycled steel from local scrap yards” More on that story here.
5 useful ways to reuse plastic bottles found on boldsky.com
Is edible food packaging the answer to avoid plastic waste? Article found here
“Upcycling” is the buzzword in eco-conscious London during London Fashion Week.
QUT Interior Design Students created a window display from recycled materials at Artisan Gallery in Brunswick St, Fortitude Valley with only $250 and 4 weeks to complete it. Feature found here
Recycled Market; for Bird Lovers
A collection of recycled products available on Recycled Market, which are perfect for bird lovers.
Recycled Souvenir Teaspoon Pieces by Greg Mann Jewellery
Applique Vintage Fabric Wall Decor by leslieworks
Recycled Burlap Coffee Sleeves by GreenBeing
Bird wing recycled t-shirt DIY sewing tutorial (easy for beginners) by ChickenHill
Humming bird and bonsai tree with reclaimed wooden frame by MDC Interiors
Recycled benares silk brocade saree birds nest fabric brooch by Jewels of Sayuri
Upcycled VINYL wall clock “BIRD” by Pavel Sidorenko
Paper peacock necklace, made from recycled magazines by Factory on The Moon
Weekly Recycle News
This week’s recycled news sourced from around the net, bought to you by Recycled Market
* An article found on www.instructables.com, to upycle a cassette boom box into general purpose amplified speakers.
* An idea seen on Environmental Media Association, instead of throwing out old whisks, upcycle them into decorative lights
* Bonnie from Crafting a Green World shows us 5 Recycled Crafts for Valentines DayVideo sourced here
* An article on Whittier Daily News on the rise of criminal recycling
* Hermit crab, recycled home.. seen here
* The Grand Canyon to ban bottled water sales
* A dragon made of scrap metal, as seen on Recyclart
* Lastly, a necklace made from recycled paper, made by LaAlicia, as seen on Recycled Market!
Red Hot and Recycled!
Today’s blog post, relates to recycled products found on Recycled Market, the theme today, is red.
Red Hot & Recycled featuring
Leggings made with fabric production excess material, by Bartinki
First Featured Seller – Siamese Dream Design
We have our first featured seller interview with Barbara and Amy, of Siamese Dream Design.
We are an expat mother and daughter team, originally from the USA. We have always had a passion for the eclectic and never really embraced mainstream consumerism. For many years it was just the two of us and we reveled in our ability to create and recreate everything under the sun. Not even knowing we were “recycling and repurposing”. Anything we had or found was fair game for a new project. Embossed drapes found in Grandma’s basement became a fantastic mermaid skirt, a unique lamp from a garage sale would get a complete make over, sheets became new window swags and coordinating cushion covers. As we began to travel and were exposed to an array of ethnic textiles, a new obsession was born.
We find an item, a piece of textile art seeped in ethnic traditions. The wheels begin to turn, ” a handbag like this….. no a little jacket with…. a skirt, boots, shoes,” and we’re off. Ethnic textiles repurposed into modern fashion and home decor items.
We love working with the different ethnic groups, helping the women keep their culture alive by turning their age old traditions into modern products and marketing them to a global audience, thereby providing them with financial stability. As we grow, it is our goal that our work will reach a large enough audience that we will be able to further diversify the ethnic groups we work with.
Open for business next week
We’re open for business next week, however, we’re in our early stages. We know there are many tasks on our to-do list, to make our site perfect, but it is a fully functioning site!
What is Recycled Market? A unique online venue that encourages buyers and sellers to reduce, reuse, redesign, refashion, rework and recycle as much as possible.
We are a global marketplace showcasing stylish handmade and ethically manufactured pieces made from recycled materials.
Buyers
We may look a little bare on the products side to start with, but fear not, new sellers are coming on board, and new products are being listed, so please come back and visit regularly.
Sellers
We are seeking artisans and traders selling products made using recycled materials, and/or vintage items. We would emphasise the importance of checking out the FAQ ‘Seller Questions’ as there are a few tasks that will be required of you to register your profile and products. Remember, it is completely free to list your product on Recycled Market.
Our first products listed on Recycled Market include:
We would love to get your feedback on ways we can improve Recycled Market for the future, so please feel free to get familiar with our site, and contact us with your ideas!
For Music Lovers
Clever ways to make use of unwanted sheet music:
