Reduce, Reuse & Recycle easily and stylishly with this DIY at-home Recycling Centre!
I’m a big fan of recycling. It’s quick, it’s easy, and it’s the least we can do to try and help out the environment.
Plus, our city picks up our recycling bins weekly whereas our garbage bins are picked up every other week. With a family of six, it’s important that we can reduce our waste as much as possible.
As much as I’m all for recycling, I’ve grown to despise how it looks in front of our house.
If we’re talking about curb appeal, this house literally has none. Despite constant efforts to get the kids to separate all of the recycling into the appropriate bins for pickup, everything always winds up all-together in multiple bins. Not only does this create an eyesore in front of the house, but it also makes for more work for our recycling truck.
So, needless to say, I came up with a creative solution – a DIY at-home recycling centre!
What you need
- Cricut Maker
- Standard Grip Mat
- Permanent Vinyl – Black or another colour of your choice
- Cricut Transfer Paper
- Basic Tool Set
- Recycling Bins
How to create a DIY at-home Recycling Centre
I wanted simple labels for the front of my recycling bins so it would be easy for the kids to determine what was supposed to go in each bin. The easier to do the more likely it is to get done, right?
Based on the separation guidelines on my city recycling website I decided on Paper, Glass and Containers. Grab the project from my Design Space page and customize the words if required to suit your recycling needs.
Get to work
Watch below to see how it’s done!
And there you have it! Your own DIY at-home Recycling Centre!
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Wow this is super cool! I can use this technique for anything. I’ve been meaning to organize my tidbits in a more proper way, I should do something like this too. Thanks!
I super super super love your setup, it is great…I will do the same for sure, thank you.
Amazing setup, i am actually going to try to make the set up. Thanks for sharing
I love this DIY. It’s so cool, I will do the same setup now.
That looks super neat to me, this diy idea seems very effective. Will try this out.
This is so creative and neat. Great idea.
I love this kind of DYI containers for technique for waste segregation very organize and I would love to try this!