Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Reduce, Reuse, Upcycle, Recycle


There are so many ways to practice taking good care of the earth that really, it's exciting! We know that God expects us to take care of what He's provided (cf Gen ch 1), and one neat way to do this is to take the old(er) idea of reduce, reuse, recycle - and just add in upcycle! This term refers to taking pieces of things that would otherwise go in the trash and turning them into a new product. Sometimes I'm just plum out of ways to reuse an old item of clothing, and cloth (for example) can't really be recycled in the traditional sense of dropping it off at a center, but it sure can be turned in to something else! It's a fun challenge to think of ways that I can do this, and it's even more fun to look at what other people's creative juices have come up with, and often with a Christian message!

Upcycled Wrist Band (Quotes Col 3:16) is from blestbeads' Etsy shop!