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10 ways to recycle 1000 mugs

A website called, How Can I Recycle This, asks the question: "How do I recycle 1000 mugs?" Super Eco has some suggestions.

Well, here goes:

  1. Drill a hole in the bottom of each mug and fill it with potting soil. Plant a seed, water it well and then donate to a local school for students to nurture as a class project.
  2. Buy packets of Tea or Hot Chocolate and pop one in each cup. Donate to a local Woman's shelter.
  3. Donate them to Animal Shelters where they may be used to scoop up chow at feeding time.
  4. Donate them to a local Art school where they can be upcycled into art.
  5. Hand them out on a street corner with eco-quotes or quotes on compassion inside as a kind of Art Happening.
  6. Take them to the next local event or community clean up day and give them out as thank-you-for-attending favors. 
  7. Donate them to a local Visiting Nurse or charity fundraiser to be sold.
  8. Use them to store leftovers in the fridge, buy neat little reusable shower-caps for the top. Make pudding in them!
  9. Fill them with good will and distribute at random to co-workers. Who can't use another mug?
  10. Sink them up-side-down part way into the ground around a flower bed to make a festive border.

If you have any more suggestions feel free to jot them down in our comment section!

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This was a good article. The tips are so easy and why not plant and seed and let a student or classroom watch it grow.
If we all took an HOUR a MONTH to help out a local school, what a difference we would see in the next generation. If you register with your local school board and volunteer at the local schools, they actually get credit and earn money! Volunteer -it does a body good!

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