How can I reuse or recycle old photographic slides?
We’ve had an email from Karen, asking:
Do you have any suggestions on how I can recycle 35mm slides in wallets?
I suspect that on a crafty level, they could be used in similar ways to photo negatives and the like but as Karen is a Environment & Waste Management Officer at a university, I suspect she might have more than can easily be reused – so does anyone know if there are any ways to actually recycle them?
Any other slide-centric reuse suggestions?
(Photo by Hutschi)
Drill or punch small holes in the frames and connect them with jump rings of any size to use as a light coverings, curtains, room dividers, or you can stretch them across a ceiling to cover up that bad plaster/duct work.
Be selective by topic and use them in scrapbooking projects.
This isn’t recycling, but it might be worth listing them on E-bay or somewhere — there are people that collect old photos: ookpiksnegz.blogspot.com and http://www.snapatorium.com are two. If you put them in blocks of subject matter, they’d appeal to someone…
I think they’d make cool lampshades, as Bizzie Bee mentions.
Give to a local art group. They can use them for sure.
I think the crafty arty thing is the way to go with them – either give to an art group or make some lampshades. (or, I’ll take them!)
Hello Kim,
Would you really be interested in having these slides as I am loathed to throw them away in the general rubbish.
If you want them please reply to my email address and give me your home address and I will get them posted to you.
Best Regards, Karen
what about using them as wine stem identifier things (drilling holes in them and attaching rings)?
I love it!
I went to a jewellery conference where the students at Edinburgh College of Art, where it was held, had made badges for all the delegates from slide mounts with images in with white stickers behind so you could see the image, we have also used this idea for the Oxton Art Fair as our name tags. Just stick a safety pin on behind with a piece of sticky card.
http://oxtonartfair.blogspot.com/
Wrap the slide holders in fancy yarn and punch a hole at the top. Make small necklace photo holders.
Using polymer clay cut out by tracing a piece of polymer clay that has been embosed and fire.Glue it to the frame and make a necklace.
Link them together with holes on each side into an interestingnecklace.
Make a belt or a braslet
If any one has any old slides can you send them to me at [address deleted].
we use them in community art and for community talks………..many thanks, Nigel.
EDITED by louisa: Nigel has asked me to remove his details – they no longer need videos/tapes. Thanks for all the offers over the years!
Nigel, do you still want old slides? I have lots of slides taken in Florence, Rome, and Venice, as well as Germany and Holland. They are from the 1970s and are primarily of beautiful architecture. Can you use these for community art? If so, I can mail them to you.
We have 10 small boxes of old slides. Are there any requirements for your needs? Do you still want them. We’re trying to figure out what to do with them since we won’t be using them again.
Thank you.
If Nigel isn’t interested don’t hesitate to contact me at aforsxsw at gmail dot com I’d love to give them a new home :)
@ Nigel – Thanks for the address, Nigel. I’ll be sending a few u/w images your way. Glad you can make use! Tess
Do you still want old slides? I have over 1000 that I can sent you
To DISPOSE of 35mm Slides and any old photographs in an ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY manner, send them to:
Eastman Kodak
100 Lotano Road
Rochester, NY 14652-3639
Attn: Building 110 Door X
Greg Munier
This information comes from Greg Munier at Eastman Kodak. See Kodak website under recycling old film for names and e-mail contact.
Hello,
Here, at Americans for the Arts we have a bunch of old public art slides we would like to recycle. Could you please provide me with more information of how to do this.
Thanks!
Mr. Munier,
I have a large box of old slide images that I do not want anymore. Are you still accepting them for recycling? Is there a charge for this service?
Hi,
if anyone out there has any old slides that they’d like to get rid of please contact me – I use them in art projects + am building up a library of them here in the UK.
thanks !
Have a few hundred slides from early sixties that want agood
home..Have transferred them to CD but can’t part with them to landfill
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I’d be glad to take any slides no longer wanted off your hands !
I have many hundreds of old slides anyone can have if they can arrange collection from Farnham, Surrey. Email me on peter.weller@virgin.net.
I am a media arts teacher…i work primarily with community organizations…after-school programs and the like. I could definitely use slides if anyone has any they are looking to get rid of. ‘
I might be a tad late to this thread…but I figured it was worth a shot…though I am in the states and have no idea what shipping and handling would wind up costing…
Hi Danielle,
I work for the Americans for the Arts and we have old public art slides that we would like to recycle. If you are interested, email me back and I’d be happy to provide you with more details.
-Sophia
Sophia…that sounds fantastic. I don’t know where to email you at…and I just saw this message now…pretty late.
Are you still around?
I have a lot of old slides anyone can have if they can arrange collection from Biggleswade, Bedfordshire. They were taken by my father in the 70′s and 80′s and cover trips to Scotland, Yugoslavia (as it was then), South Africa, Switzerland, Malta, Majorca … Email me on l.pitts@ntlworld.com
I would be interested in obtaining your old slides if you still have them. I can reimburse you if the shipping isn’t too costly.
Jill
danielleboris@gmail.com
TAGLINE: SLIDES
We have SEVERAL boxes of slides that were taken by my mother in law from vacations across the US—I think. Not really sure but pretty sure. Let me know.
Linda
I would also be interested in anybody’s old slides (and negatives) if you don’t want them. I’m happy to pay the postage. Email me at brightley1 [at] gmail.com
Thanks
John
An addition to my post above – I’m in England and will only be able to pay postage within the UK – it will probably be prohibitively expensive from abroad.
I’m an art student and would LOVE to take old slides off of someone’s hands. I’m using them for a work of art that I’m hoping to present at a juried art show in September and can always use more!
Do you still want slides? We are starting a big sort, and will happily send the extra’s along. Are you in the States? How many can you use?
I have several hundred 35 mm slides from the 80s/90s on the topic of human anatomy. My mentor gave them to me and I like the lamp shade idea.
Also thinking of making a mural in the shape of the human body out of slides showing the anatomy of the human body.
Anything is better than a landfill!
I have loads of slide taken by my Dad in the 70′s and 80′s all of holidays in Europe – some pretty stunning views – don’t want them to go in landfill. Trouble is I live on the Isle of Wight but could probably arrange to get them to mainland if anyone has a use for them. Please reply to sueday@onwight.net
Hi Sue,
have sent you an email about your slides -= thanks !
If anybody else has any old slides [dont care what subject or picture quality] or even unused slide mounts that they don’t need I would LOVE to have them to use as a part of my Photography course in college, teaching my classmates about e-6 processing, and as were 18/19 not many people have seen them before, so they will be well used as a learning process, the more the merrier!
I can also vouch for the slide lampshade idea made a few of these for my bedroom and change them each season to match, they light up each frame beautifully when the light is on:)
email me at amy_rolo@hotmail.com please
i live in the uk if anybody needs to know.
I have several boxes of slides that I would like to donate to an educational program. This is a full set of art history slides that are no longer needed now that our university has gone digital. Please indicate where they would need to be shipped (can only ship within the US). Also an email address so I can contact you.
Hey Prof,
Would love these slides for a personal project, if your interested in donating, please email me here, saree@obviousdesings.com
all the best
Is there anyone or any orginazation that would be interested in my old 35mm slides, in the United States? I have 1/2 of a medium size USPS box full of them. I would hate to just throw them away. Maybe someone could use them in an art project.
I might be interested in the slides if they are still available. My email address is halland12@hotmail.com.
Hi
I’ve got a fabulous collection of slides – all catalogued and taken by my Aunt thru the 60′s, 70′s, 80′s and early 90′s. They range in subject but mostly of her travels around the world. They are far too beautiful to hide in a loft for another 20 years or to landfill. I’d love to send them to someone for a community or college project.
Contact me on wheeler5@madasafish.com if you are genuinely interested in them.
I saw your message about your aunt’s photographic slide collection.
I am certainly interested in your offer if you still have them.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Thanks.
K.H.
Hi, One idea to use old slide is to make a picture frame. I use clean sticks for stirring paint or any flat, thin strips of wood or plastic. Glue them in the size you want (8×10, 5×7, etc.) and when dry then glue the old slides onto the frame. They can go on in a pattern or overlapped or any way that suits your taste. Using slides to make a picture frame will certainly get comments.
Hello,
I would be most interested to hear from anybody with a
collection of photographic slides they would like to recycle or are just
cluttering up their space at home.
Please contact me at: j.depot@information4u.com
I look foward to hearing from you.
Thanks
K.H.
Hello Everybody,
I would be interested in any slide collections that people on these webpages are looking to dispose. I would of course reimburse for postage.
You can reach me at: recyjohn@greenmail.net
I look forward to hearing from you.
Many thanks.
John
I have several thousand slides of tourist travels in the 1950s thru 1970s, all overseas (non-US), and each in a Kodak carousel slide tray with a labelled box.
Happy to mail them out to you (specify what continent or country you’d like–we’ve got them all!) and would LOVE to be reimbursed postage if possible, on behalf of my elderly client.
Please reply directly to Ruth@ASpareDaughter.com
I would love your old slides, i don’t need trays ( cheaper to mail).
i use em to make all kinds of art stuff, keeps me busy. I will be happy to pay for shipping! I am in CA.
Hi again use my email please,
gomerfoto@yahoo.com
I will take all the used slide u have and pay for shipping, thanks
i love slides
deb
Do you still need slides? (I assume that this system will give you my email address??? but just in case: drcongovir@aol.com. We are starting a major sort, and know we will have a number to share.
I have several boxes of slides that my mother in law took from vacations around the US. Would appreciate having the postage paid. Thank you
Linda
I would gladly take them off your hands. If you are looking to sell them I see slides on ebay and etsy all the time.
I have approximately 450 transparencies to donate to anyone who would like them. Holiday slides from 1950′s & 60′s.
Hello Ian,
I am certainly interested in your offer of the transparencies.
Please contact me at recyjohn@greenmail.net.
I am located in the U.K.
I will also reimburse you for postage.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Regards
John
Hi John
If you can let me have details of where you would like these slides sent, I will pack them up & dispatch them.
My e-mail address is ian1mcc@virginmedia.com
Ian
Would anyone be interested in medical slides?These are lecture slides with texts, some have tables, and some have pictures-macroscopic and microscopic.
Hello Max,
I am certainly interested in your offer of the medical slides
Please contact me at recyjohn@greenmail.net.
I am located in the U.K.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Regards
John
I would love to see if anyone has slides they are willing to part with for a art project. I am in the greater Seattle area and would be willing to pay postage. Please respond if you have any. Thanks all. Please respond to buddhasfirefly@hotmail.com Thanks