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Posted by violet_kelly TX 8 B/CS (My Page) on Mon, May 12, 08 at 8:18
| Is there anything I can do with cereal boxes and the like? My community doesn't take any cardboard besides corrugated.
Kelly |
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RE: cereal boxes?
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| I made some of the carryalls in this video, but I used them as gift boxes. You can personalize them too. They're great for little girls' birthdays, because they can use their gift box as a dress up purse. I donate my extra things like this to the Boys and Girls club in my neighborhood. We have a great art instructor who can use them to make almost anything. I have a friend who makes her own paper and cards, and she loves the cereal boxes for making card stock. She first gets a hole punch and punches out colorful dots, then she uses those to make pictures on the cards.
If you google "cereal box crafts", you can get a lot of ideas. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Cereal Box Craft Video
RE: cereal boxes?
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| Do you have a compost pile? Rip/shred them up and throw them on the pile with all the other "greens" & "browns". |
RE: cereal boxes?
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| I rip mine up and put them in the compost. Creative ideas, junkyardgirl! :)
Dee |
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| *sigh* No compost heap...I rent in town. :-( |
RE: cereal boxes?
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| get on your recyclers about it Kelly, boxboard belongs in the same pile as corrugated, goes to the same re-pulpers Bill |
RE: cereal boxes?
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| Ha! I found someone who will take mixed paper and paperboard! YAY! I have to take it to a different place in town, but that will cut my trash in half if not more. :) |
RE: cereal boxes?
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| Rip/cut them up into small pieces and bury in the garden. Or ask someone who has a garden and ask if they want free pre-compost. |
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| I have an indoor cat & litter box. In my efforts to break my addiction to plastic store bags, I use alternative containers for cat litter waste. I use cereal boxes (as well as other misc food boxes & packagings) for litter...just whatever looks to be a decent useable size box or bag whenever I generate the garbage. The upside is the boxes will deteriorate in the landfill as opposed to the plastics...AND, I'm weaning myself off store bags. |
RE: cereal boxes?
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| You can run them thru a shredder and use it as mulch. |
RE: cereal boxes?
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| It's ok to use cereal boxes on a compost pile (shredded)? I thought for some reason that one was to avoid using the heavily printed cardboard? Maybe I was thinking of the glossy paper? |
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| I suppose if you are going to use them in the compost heap, why not use them as a compost container, then just throw iin the whole darn thing? I never thought to compost them, great idea! |
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| My cereal boxes aren't corrugated. Here they just go in the mixed paper recycling bin. Tom |
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| middlemike - My compost pile has happily eaten any type of cardboard I can throw at it as well as what I would call glossy paper. Nothing glossy like a picture, but the glossy newsprint ads have broken down just fine. |
RE: cereal boxes?
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- Posted by alley 7b Ft. Worth, Tx (My Page) on
Thu, Jun 5, 08 at 9:18
| I cut the bottoms off (about 1 or 2 inches or so) and use them to organize my junk drawers, make up drawer. Any place that you would use a little tray. If you did it on the side, you would have a bigger tray. This works for mac and cheese boxes etc too. |
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| Is all cardboard compostable? I've been guiltily throwing away my breakfast bar boxes, Poptart boxes, cocoa mix boxes, etc. I have a compost bin. Can they all just be cut up and tossed in there? Ditto corrugated cardboard? |
RE: cereal boxes?
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| Yes Lilacs that stuff can go in. It can be shredded or whole depending on how quickly you want it to decompose . |
RE: cereal boxes?
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| Great! I've been taking my cardboard and ripping/cutting it into small pieces for the compost bin. That much less trash for the landfill. |
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