Comments on: How can I reuse or recycle plastic VHS video cases?

By: Tia

Tia — Fri, 20 May 2011 16:27:31 +0000

T.J’s Recycling which is owned by a young man who started his business when he was 11, takes the cassette and vhs tapes and re purposes them. Check out the pics on BeGreenMinded.com or own the web site tjsrecycledproducts. They are in Va.

By: septic tank man

septic tank man — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 23:23:33 +0000

A really good way of reusing them is to take all the ribbon out and use them as streamers

By: Betty

Betty — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:45:28 +0000

Remove pages from an old book, and glue the cases inside the cover. You can hide valuables right on your bookshelf, and no one will suspect. Incidentally, I am looking to buy video cases for this very project. Want to sell some? Please contact me at bdcirkles@hotmail.com if you can spare about 10 cases.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Mon, 24 May 2010 03:38:45 +0000

Wow!

I’m impressed! I don’t think that I would have thought to use the tapes this way. How is it surviving the weather?

I really like the added touch of one red cassette in the midst of all the black cassettes.

By: Ognev Vlaminck

Ognev Vlaminck — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:08:47 +0000

Hello, I recycle these boxes as part of a roof I made out of Video tapes. I used them to finish of the sides of the roof. You can see some pictures here: http://www.maximalisme.be/the_chelter_of_the_dump.htm

By: Gulia

Gulia — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:47:07 +0000

If someone needs more of them, ask local Blockbuster.

By: Phil

Phil — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:10:24 +0000

I like to use mine to keep videos in

By: Katie Doll

Katie Doll — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:27:50 +0000

I chick made a purse out of one once, i thought it looked pretty neat.

By: bill

bill — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 21:59:13 +0000

side your house with them

By: Viking

Viking — Thu, 24 May 2007 14:01:37 +0000

If you have an olf-fashioned APS-camera, the cases make good containers for the film spools.

By: Ashlyn Noble

Ashlyn Noble — Thu, 17 May 2007 05:21:37 +0000

If you have a small local library, ask them if they’d like a donation of VHS cases, when I worked at a library we could really have used some extras =)

By: andrew

andrew — Tue, 15 May 2007 17:15:24 +0000

use them to store old vhs tapes in

By: erroir

erroir — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 02:12:13 +0000

Toss them on the campfire – they make pretty colored flames!!

By: Nigello

Nigello — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 20:52:32 +0000

Tape 2 or 3 together, perhaps cover them, and use them as blocks for the kids or as ‘yoga blocks’ that you sit on. Or fill them with stones or sand and use them as light weights to work out with. Nigello

By: Shama Hyder

Shama Hyder — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 19:41:00 +0000

I used to use mine as pencil boxes!

By: trish

trish — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 23:30:14 +0000

oh yeah, you could store pictures in them too.

By: trish

trish — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 23:29:34 +0000

if its unmarked, store valuables in them in plain site, there really isn’t any money in vhs any more, so if your house was robbed.

glue them shut for small children to use as blocks.

I like the book idea,

Take them on a camping trip or boating trip, they’ll float and they’ll be water resistant.

decorate them pretty and use them to “wrap” gifts in.

store all your warrenties in them, they’re easy to file on a shelf.

give them to kids for trinket boxes.

great storage for kids stuff, stickers, pencils, crayons, etc…

fill them with beans, rice, etc, seal them and make instruments for kids.

let kids make a “time capsule” bury it in your flower garden or yard.

use it as an on the go jewelry box, they’ll keep every thing together in your suitcase.

store small candles in them, great camping idea to keep the wicks dry.

paint them like dominoes and make designs to fall…

By: :D

:D — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:01:48 +0000

I use a nice green, ‘Bugs Life’ one as a pencil case ;)

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 16:15:11 +0000

I use one as a paperback book holder when I travel. Stops the book cover form getting ripped and wrinkled in the suitcase.