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Looking for zero waste craft ideas?
In response to our post about crafting with materials like glitter, we've got some ideas for alternatives.
Classic Zero Waste Craft: ✂️
With a sudden amount of home-crafting about to take place, we’re answering a frequent question we get about GLITTER 🎉
“I know glitter is bad for the environment, but I already have a bunch - Isn’t it better to use it all up so that it isn’t wasted?"
- Stop buying plastic markers.
- Billions already exist on the planet as plastic pollution forever.
What should we use instead? How is this educational?
There is so much fascinating stuff for students to learn here!
- Weight + Volume Calculations of waste created by markers.
Be cool if it were.
Wouldn't it be magical if “they” could take back ALL of the zillions of markers, chop them up and make new little markers?
Reality is:
•Marker “recycling” programs = incineration.
•Or to put it in sanitized-speak: Converting plastics to energy
