How can I reuse or recycle … the plastic wrap from bouquets?
We’ve had an email from Ciara Fletcher:
My colleagues at work gave me a beautiful bunch of flowers for my birthday but it seems to be wrapped in about 10 yards of cellophane!! What can I do with it? It’s mostly clear with a cute white flower design on it but I can’t think what to do with it because it’s so noisy!
If you grow flowers yourself, you could reuse it if you ever want to give a bunch to anyone else – but aside from that, I’m out of ideas. Any suggestions?
(Oh, and by the way Ciara, here are some suggestions for re-using the flowers when you’re done with them.)
(Photo from Ciara)
You might try using it for gift wrap by layering over a plain paper, or even a patterened one.
Give it to a friend for scrap booking, decoupage.
Make small bags of it for cookies, candies, cakes at holiday time, tie with a ribbon (wash it well if you use it for food).
You could make a bunch of smarties/M&M’s wraps with them and serve for ur friends at the office or home…
Wash the cellophane papers, cut them into strips of 5×8 cm each, put 6-7 smarties, roll the cellophane around the candies, then roll the 2 sides, and attach with nice colored and small ribbons…here u go , u have hoem made candeis to serve !!!
I did this for my baby;s shower …except I bought the cellophane :)
What about a local youth group or toddler group. I can always find something for the children to make with almost anything.
I use reclaimed cellophane to package my hand made greetings cards that I then sell for charity. Gives a more professional finish, and this pattern sounds ideal for a wedding or congratulations style.
use it as a unique tissue paper for gifts!
I remove and wash all plastic wrap before it has a chance to get dirty, smoothen it and hang it out to dry. I reuse it to wrap fruit baskets with (I also reuse baskets and paper bowls/plates for this). If the wrap is too wrinkled and no longer suitable for re-gifting, I cut it into pieces to cover books and line drawers and boxes with.
you can wrap it round a plant pot with seeds in and wrap an elastic band around it. Acts as a propagator and is reusable.