Just a quick post to point you in the direction of a few ideas for reusing and recycling all those Valentine’s Day gifts.

We’ve got:

• How to reuse or recycle dried fresh flowers – such as roses
• How to reuse or recycle the plastic wrapping from a bouquet
• How to reuse or recycle greetings cards
• How to reuse or recycle wrapping paper
• How to reuse or recycle chocolate boxes
• How to reuse or recycle wrappers from individual chocolates

So there are plenty of ways you can show your love for the environment after someone’s shown their love for you :)

We’ve already covered a number of Valentine’s Day type things:

• Dried fresh flowers – such as roses
• Greetings cards
• Wrapping paper

And while we’ve thought about the wrapping on individual chocolates, we haven’t thought about the chocolate boxes themselves.

Some of them – particularly the high end, Valentine’s Day ish ones – are quite pretty and I’ve used them in the past for storing letters and the like. But what about other reuses? Have

Some boxes have formed plastic to hold the individual chocolates – like cake packaging – so it would be great if anyone had recycling ideas for those too.

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