It’s our third Easter here on Recycle This so this is just a quick post harking back to previous Easter-ish posts:

• How can I reuse or recycle … excessive Easter egg packaging? (2006)
• How can I reuse or recycle … excessive Easter egg packaging? (2007)
• How can I reuse or recycle … shiny chocolate wrappers?
• How can I reuse or recycle … wire egg dippers?

(Photo by LotusHead)

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We’ve had an email from Ang, asking:

What can I make with the wire dippers in the PAAS egg dying kit? I have a whole bag of them.. how can I recycle these?

Maybe offer them to a local school for them to use at Easter?

I’ve never dyed eggs so I don’t know how strong they are but could they be made into little hanging pen pots? Nail/push-pin the hoop to a wall/noticeboard/cubicle and clip pens onto the ring - or stitch a small fabric pouch onto the ring to drop pencils into?

Any other suggestions?

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This isn’t a real post just an advert for those who are currently feeling slightly sick after eating too much chocolate this morning.

We covered excessive Easter egg packaging last year but are still keen to hear your ideas and suggestions.

The cardboard can usually be recycled and the foil reused in a number of crafty ways but what about the plastic?

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Unless you’re very good and don’t eat every scrap of chocolate as soon as it passes the threshold of your home, I think we’re about a week late on this one. But anyway…

Every year we ask people likely to buy us Easter eggs not to buy us Easter eggs but we still end up with one or two, and the packaging makes us want to cry.

I have been known to wear the cardboard bit as a hat (photos available on request) so that’s that dealt with, but what can be done with all that molded yet flimsy plastic nonsense?

(Photo by Vierdrie, c/o sxc.hu)

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