Curious To Know How To Make A Paper Bag?

Want to know how to make a paper bag? Here's a short video i found in youtube.

Paper bags for sale here!

Source: http://crafts.123peppy.com/

Tips to reduce the use of plastic bags

Tips to reduce the use of plastic bags.

So it's decided not use plastic bags or at least minimize it.

Here are some tips to reduce your use of plastic bags so we can help in saving our environment:

1. Use re-usable and washable plastic containers (Tupperware or Pyrex) instead of disposable plastic bags to store food and pack lunches.
2. Use re-usable cloth grocery bags and decline plastic bags at your local grocery store checkout
3. Use self-checkout to reduce bag usage, and decline bags when you can carry your grocery items in your hands

Share your thoughts too!

Source: http://www.earthsfriends.com/tips-reduce-use-plastic-bags/

Surprising Uses for Toilet Paper Tubes

Surprising Uses for Toilet Paper Tubes

So here's what I normally do after finishing a roll of toilet paper. Throw It! But not nowadays.
Check out these awesome ways to reuse them instead. Share your thoughts too!

15 Ways to Reuse Toilet Paper Tubes (or Paper Towel Tubes)

1. DIY Rocket – A toilet paper or paper towel tube is the perfect base for making an upcycled play rocket.

2. Play Megaphone – I can’t call this a craft, really, but it’s a game that my 17-month-old LOVES. Grab a toilet paper or paper towel tube for each of you, and talk into one of the open ends. He loves how it distorts our voices!

3. Faux Christmas Lights – Think LED lights are an eco-friendly Christmas decoration? Check out these totally upcycled lights made from toilet paper tubes!

4. Make an

Ways to utilize the plastic bags you already have

Ways to utilize the plastic bags you already have

In my previous post, we shared some tips on how we can reduce the use of plastic bags. This time, we have here some ways for us to utilize plastic bags you and I already have. Share your thoughts too

For the plastic bags you already have collected, here’s ways to use them instead of trashing them:

1. Use your plastic bags to pick up animal (dog) poop
2. Donate the plastic bags to animal shelters or dog parks
3. Use them in place of paper when doing work around the house such as painting
4. Keep some in your car in case of emergencies
5. Use them to collect trash when you’re camping – and take the trash with you
6. Use them in keeping valuable items
7. Return them to your local grocery store – they can be re-used and sometimes recycled

Source: http://www.earthsfriends.com/tips-reduce-use-plastic-bags/