Tin cans are common food packaging or container for the distribution of preserved goods. These steel containers are just one of those everyday wastes that a house hold ordinarily throw in their trash cans. Tin cans are recyclable infact, it belongs to those money making trash that can be sold for 5pesos/kilogram in the Philippines.
There are two ways to dispose tin cans; sell it to the junk shop or recycle it yourself. From different recycling and craft sites, I collected some ideas on how to recycle tin cans.
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| photo by greenprophet |
This is called a "shining arc of Israel", an amazing arc made of soup cans. I've found this amazing tin can recycling from
greenprophet. It says that Israelis made this amazing craft out of soup cans. According to the article, Israel artists love to turn ordinary objects into beautiful arts and it's indeed an incredible craft, a good way to re-use waste materials like tin cans.
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Turn your tin cans into a mini garden. These cute flower pots are made from soft drinks in can, a very brilliant idea shared to us by
makehandicraft.com. You can place these cans on your garden, terraces or you can even hang it to save space.
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| photo by: lifetussle |
I can't believe that a trash could be an amazing toy car like this! This one is a creative way to recycle coca-cola cans posted by
Lifetussle. I love the idea of making a toy car out of soft drink cans, the one who created it must be a very good artist to have this brilliant idea. I wish i could make one for my son coz he loves hand-made toys.
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Can you imagine your self living in a can house, well I find it so interesting to live here but I am not Architect Richard Van Os Keuls who made this amazing house made of soda cans.
Eco-artware.com posted this article entited "A can-do house: A new twist to Aluminum siding.
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This is a post from
junmarketstyle entitled "Vintage tea tin pendant lights". For me, these could be mini chandeliers. This is another brilliant idea to recycle tin cans, If you want to learn the procedure, just visit the link and you'll find the basic tutorial there.
There are lots of amazing products made of recycled tin cans and these should serve as inspirations to discipline ourselves in waste segregation. Do not just throw and throw cause there may be a good way to re-use those materials which we consider as trash. That's all folks and happy recycling!
