Comments on: How can I reuse or recycle used envelopes?

By: Patty Davidson

Patty Davidson — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 22:27:39 +0000

Open the envelope carefully along the seams. Turn inside out. Glue it back together and you have a cool patterned envelope. See this post on my blog Never Buy Another Envelope. Here’s the URL…

http://justletterrip.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2009-07-14T11:19:00-03:00&max-results=10

By: leanne

leanne — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 21:58:08 +0000

I use envelopes to make the paper templates for English Pieced Patchwork. The paper is just the right thickness and quality.

By: Paul Chapman

Paul Chapman — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 09:20:39 +0000

Then what ?

By: Rose

Rose — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 03:47:12 +0000

I use the envelopes with windows to send lunch money to school or notes to the teacher.

By: Paul Chapman

Paul Chapman — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:50:54 +0000

My concern is the plastic window. Why does it have to be plastic ? Could it not be some kind of biodegradable cellulose ?
It’s all very well reusing plastic window envelopes in the various ways described, yet that only delays the plastic content reaching landfill next time around.
No one (surely) separates the window out from the paper.

I still don’t have a satisfactory procedure for such recycling. But I would welcome one.

Paul

By: Felicia Follum

Felicia Follum — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 21:36:23 +0000

Here is a link to some better paper bead images. The envelope beads turn out most like the photocopier paper beads in these images.

http://feliciafollum.blogspot.com/2011/01/paper-beads.html

Enjoy!

Felicia

By: Felicia Follum

Felicia Follum — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 17:33:22 +0000

The envelopes with the designs inside make gorgeous paper beads.

http://sckrlgn.blogspot.com/2010/12/christmas-star-or-snowflake-ornament.html – paper bead project

I will post a tutorial soon but there are some up on You Tube so check it our

By: Felicia Follum

Felicia Follum — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 17:31:11 +0000

One great craft for the envelopes with the designs inside is paper beads. They are shockingly gorgeous.

By: Violet

Violet — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 18:12:31 +0000

You could probably just cut off the glue and plastic bit and recycle the paper. It doesn’t solve all the problem but it solves a good 70% of it.

By: How can I reuse or recycle window envelopes?

How can I reuse or recycle window envelopes? — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 14:55:53 +0000

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How can I reuse or recycle window envelopes? | How can I recycle this? — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 10:16:51 +0000

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How can I reuse or recycle old padded envelopes? | How can I recycle this? — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 19:23:51 +0000

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By: postie

postie — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:01:06 +0000

Bobbie has the right idea! You will soon be taken off that company’s mailing list (it might take a couple of these returned envelopes) because the company actually pays DOUBLE the first class letter rate to receive business reply mail back.

By: postie

postie — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:56:39 +0000

Wrong fiddleback, the junk mail company has not YET paid for those envelopes, as I explained to Emania.

This is not legal and your letter will be returned to you, if your address is on the envelope. Otherwise, it MAY be delivered to your intended recipient with double the correct postage due, since business reply envelopes are only paid for (at double the going first class rate) when the business gets them back from their customers.

By: postie

postie — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:50:33 +0000

By: Veronica

Veronica — Fri, 21 May 2010 09:20:21 +0000

I put my old envelopes in the shredder, put them in bags and donate to local animal rescue centres who use them as bedding.

By: Dom

Dom — Thu, 20 May 2010 08:24:21 +0000

A5 padded envelopes with bubble wrap lining make great low cost Netbook / small laptop cases!

By: Liz

Liz — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 17:38:10 +0000

You can put the envelopes with the rubbery glue in the compost as the slugs love the glue and will eat it up! Byt what do I do with the envelopes with bubble wrap inside? It is so securely stuck to the paper that it’s impossible to separate.

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Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:37:07 +0000

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By: Iain

Iain — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 15:59:29 +0000

permanent marker :P

By: Cipollina

Cipollina — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:14:03 +0000

For the non addressed junk mail that gets delivered to the door/mailbox, put up a nice sign on door/mailbox with the text “No junkmail, please!” or similar.

Paint over the old address on envelopes with black (I use a children’s watercolour “puck”), and when it’s dry write the new address with white marker pen on top of that.

Open envelopes with windows carefully in one end using a sharp knife, and when reusing them, just use tape to close them. One could also use a rubberstamp on them with some text about the envelope being reused to save trees, or some such.

Coloured envelopes and envelopes with lots of print can be cut up and used in collages – I make all my greeting- and postcards this way.

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How can I reuse or recycle plastic mailing bags? | How can I recycle this? — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:01:16 +0000

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By: Amy Van Risseghem

Amy Van Risseghem — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:15:47 +0000

So, true!

By: Mary Horesh

Mary Horesh — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:37:04 +0000

At work we get a lot of A4 window envelopes and now that sending A4 sized parcels is more expensive, I remake them into a smaller A5 envelopes, just fold in half cut about 2 cm above this line and trim corners and cut one side off and voila you have a new envelopes.

Also I use the envelopes I can’t reuse at work to collect my teabags so I can take them home to my compost.

By: Olia

Olia — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:34:13 +0000

Draw a Christmas stocking on each envelope, and hang over the fire place. Place money gift inside.

By: Olia

Olia — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:31:50 +0000

Attach a shoelace and let a little girl decorate her fancy purse.

By: Olia

Olia — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:28:54 +0000

Decorate them with words and images, flip over the string, glue, and you have a holiday garland.

By: Olia

Olia — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:24:52 +0000

Can use them in a game of fingerprints. Every participant paints their fingers with water washable paint, then several envelopes are passed around in different directions among the group of players. One of the envelopes is marked on the inside “Murder”. The detective has to guess who was involved with the murder.

By: Shorty

Shorty — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:08:17 +0000

Agreed! I have a friend who, after many letters begging the company to stop sending her junkmail in vain, decided to send said company some mail too, as in, all her junkmail. Stuff it all in a big envelope and send it back to the- well, you get the point. =D

By: Shorty

Shorty — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:05:55 +0000

I keep a little pile in every room for when I’m on the phone or something and need something to write on. When I had hamsters, I would take the less-inky, non-chemical-y looking ones, rip out the little windows and the glue part and throw them in the shredder to make bedding, they used to love it.