Decorate your house for Halloween with recycled materials.

You don’t need to buy plastic things to have fun on Halloween!

In today’s blog, we want to give you some ideas for Halloween costumes or decorations from recycled materials.

Let’s go there

Plastic bottle skeleton

First of all, we had the fantastic idea of ​​creating a skeleton made from recycled plastic bottles.

Use one bottle for the head or skull, one for the rib cage, and then 2 or 3 more to create the legs, feet, arms, and hands.

Source: Creaciones Rosario Contreras

Can ghost

Second, ghosts can be created out of plastic cans or containers.

Paint the cans white, turn them over, and paint the eyes and mouth black.

Add strips of white fabric to hang from the can.

Source: Artes Manuales Maymig

spiders with recycled plastic

Take the plastic containers where the frozen ones are packed and paint it black, creating a spooky spider.

Then, take the plastic rings that hold the sodas together and create a stunning spider web.

It will be terrifying!

Ghost lights with plastic bottles

Line up some milk bottles, add black paint to draw their faces, and then put white Christmas lights inside.

It’s a line of ghosts!

Also, on the internet, you can find numerous templates to illustrate the face of ghosts.

Source: Scrappingparados

Frankenstein with recycled bottles

Take two large, empty soda bottles, cut out the bottom of each bottle and join the two parts.

On the top, paint the hair and eyes, then paint the mouth and some screws on the bottom.

Finally, take the bottle caps and wrap them in silver foil; They will look like two screws that you can stick in the bottle simulating the ears.

Source: Ecobrisa Manualidades con Reciclaje

Bats with bottles of liquid yogurt

Save the bottles of liquid yogurt you have at home and paint them black.

Also paint the occasional straws black to simulate the bat’s legs. Draw the wings on a piece of paper, paint them black, and glue them to the bottle.

Just add the eyes!

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What to do with the large amount of electronic waste that we generate?

Technology is today an inseparable part of our lives.

In a world that is increasingly committed to the environment, recycling technological objects presents a challenge.

In today’s post we talk about the large amount of electronic waste we generate and what to do with it.

Technology, a fundamental part of our day to day.

If we listed the amount of electronic items we use throughout the day, we would surely lose count.

From the alarm clock that goes off every morning to the ebook that we use before going to sleep, going of course through the mobile phone, appliances, computers …

Our routine is marked by the use of electrical devices.

Also every so often we change mobile phones for example or we need a new tablet or we buy the new game console that has just come out.

The point is that we inevitably generate a large amount of highly polluting technological waste.

WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment)

These wastes are commonly known as WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment).

And if they are not treated correctly they pose a serious risk to the environment.

These wastes are generated in large quantities worldwide and in general standards, their recycling is mismanaged.

This type of garbage already reaches the levels of plastic waste, being even more dangerous than these due to its components.

We must bear in mind that WEEE is composed of toxic elements such as copper, lead, cadmium, mercury or nickel, among others.

An inappropriate treatment of this waste in a matter of recycling, can suppose a serious problem of contamination.

Since these compounds can reach seas and rivers or emit toxic substances into the atmosphere.

What can we do with the electronic waste we generate?

It is estimated that around 40 million tons of electronic waste are generated in the world and it is expected that in 2030 they will be more than one billion tons.

The vast majority of these wastes are not recycled correctly, so the environmental problem is quite serious.

But what can we do?

  • Ideally, first of all, the appliances should have a long service life.

There are many technological devices that we renew very often for a simple whim or a simple fashion, such as mobile phones.

We could commit to the environment and try to renew certain objects when absolutely necessary.

  • Second that we try to repair them.

Sure there are many objects that could continue to function subjecting them to a simple repair.

What happens is that, as a rule, electronic devices tend to be cheap and we feel that they are not worth fixing.

For a little more we can have a new product.

  • If we throw them away, we must make sure we take this waste to a clean point.

You can check the clean points in your area at https://www.ocu.org/consumo-familia/derechos-consumidor/calculadora/puntos-limpios

  • If we are going to replace an electronic device with a new one, we can deliver it to the store where we have made the purchase.

Usually they collect them and take over their management.

Recycling is increasingly ingrained in our daily routine.

We only have to incorporate this commitment to electronic waste and always deposit it where it corresponds.

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