As living standards improve day by day, people consume a lot of resources, produce on a large scale, consume a lot, and produce a lot of waste. In fact, the concept of "waste recycling" is not unfamiliar to the Chinese who have always been thrifty and thrifty. Maybe you still remember the recycling of waste products in the 1950s and 1960s: toothpaste peels were collected and recycled, orange peels were used to make medicines, biowaste was used for composting, and scraps of cloth, ink bottles, etc. could be reused. Reusing waste is a virtue of diligence and thrift, and it is also an environmentally friendly behavior. So, in today's highly developed material life, how many of us still maintain such environmental awareness? The reporter made a special investigation on the streets to find out, maybe you can find your own shadow here. Old CD pendant Yang Hui, 21 years old, freelancer. I usually like to listen to music. Many CDs have been damaged because it took too long to buy them. I use some ribbons or colored threads to string these damaged CDs into pendants and hang them at home, which not only looks good, saves money, but also avoids environmental pollution caused by random discarding. Counting ice cream sticks Xu Li, 8 years old, primary school student uses used discarded cardboard boxes and unwanted old clothes to make doll beds and clothes. My mother would use the ice cream sticks I ate to teach me arithmetic. Practicing calligraphy with old newspapers Yang Ke, a 63-year-old retired man, usually likes to practice calligraphy, so he never throws away the newspapers he has read and uses them all for calligraphy practice. It not only reuses waste, but also saves money on buying paper to practice calligraphy. Oral liquid bottle wind chime Wang Wen, a 17-year-old middle school student, I often use the beverage bottles and cans I have drunk to make handicrafts, such as flower baskets, pen holders, etc., and then paste some advertising paper on them, and they become beautiful and still beautiful. Unique in the world. I once saw a product advertisement on TV and was inspired to use those small oral liquid bottles to make wind chimes. Old Calendar Kite Grandpa Sun, 65 years old, retired worker. His grandson likes to fly kites. Those kites sold outside soon become rotten, so it is better to make them yourself, and they can be recycled. Most of the old wall calendars at home are used to make kites for my grandson every year. Ms. Li, a 24-year-old company employee who owns milk carton underwear, doesn’t wear many of her clothes anymore when they are worn out. It would be a pity to throw them away, so she cuts some clothes with bright colors or beautiful patterns and makes them into some cloth sticker decorations. Beautiful and environmentally friendly. Usually after drinking milk, the packaging box is thrown into the trash can. Later, I accidentally discovered that the milk packaging box can be used to make a "home" for my underwear. Small items like underwear should be placed specifically so they are clean and easily accessible. I cut off the top and bottom seals of the milk cartons, washed them, rolled them into tubes, and arranged them neatly in the big box. Then I rolled up the small items such as underwear and socks and put them inside. Old Clothes Foot Mats Ms. Zhang, a 42-year-old factory worker, collects a certain amount of old socks and uses them to make mops, or tears up old clothes to make rags, and uses old stockings as clothes for her pet dogs. . Use old clothes to make foot mats. Cut unworn thick woolen clothes into square or oval shapes, then glue an old acrylic shirt on top, and stick or sew the two together to create a delicate foot mat. Done. Put it at the door of your home, and when you come home every day, the foot pads can absorb the dust brought back from the outdoors on your feet. It can also be made into various shapes according to your personal preferences. Screw Robot Wang Qiang, 18 years old, middle school student. If you have any rusty wires, screws, iron sheets, etc. at home, you can use them to make a small robot. It is not only environmentally friendly but also creative. Advertising paper coasters Zhou Tao, 25 years old, self-employed in a boutique store. Sometimes there are too many sundries in the store, so he makes shoe boxes into sundry storage boxes. Use a relatively sturdy shoe box, glue some posters or beautiful cotton cloth on it, or use a watercolor pen to doodle on the shoe box, and then put it in the store to hold magazines or small sundries. It is very practical. There are always many colorful advertisements in the newspapers ordered at home or in the store. When walking on the street, there are always people inserting beautifully printed advertisements. These things are useless if you keep them, and they will affect the environment if you throw them away, so you can fold them into coasters and recycle them. Old blanket massage cushion Xie Fang, 35 years old, employee DIY toy box.
There are so many children's toys that the room looks messy. At this time, some large discarded cardboard boxes can come in handy. Paste brightly colored drawing paper with cartoon patterns around the carton, which will please the children more. Then put it in the room specifically for children's toys, and it can also help children develop a good habit of tidying up. The finished fruit basket can be used to hold stuffed animals and can be hung on the wall to save space. My parents are in poor health and use old blankets to make massage mats. Cut the old blanket into two rectangles, wrap the picked pebbles with thick cloth, place the pebbles wrapped in the cloth bag in the middle of the blanket, and sew the two blankets together. After dinner every night, my parents would walk up and down a few times to massage the acupuncture points on the soles of their feet to strengthen their health.