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<\/p>\nSo this weekend I decided to try and reuse some of my plastic waste by upcycling into dinky little charms. I read a great article just before Christmas about taking plastic, drawing on it, cutting it out and using a gentle heat in the oven to turn it into little charms. I had pictures of making something cute to hang in my window, or maybe a keyring. I had also been given a massive pack of Sharpies at Christmas, so it seemed like\u00a0time to get creative.<\/p>\n
As luck would have it, someone brought in some muffins last week and left them in our kitchen (at work, not home – but having a magic muffin-bringing pixie in our kitchen at home would be astonishingly good) so I pilfered the packaging and took it home. I washed them both out carefully, and added a plastic ‘basket’ that had had grapes in for good measure.\u00a0I then printed out images\u00a0to trace onto my plastic and filled the kitchen with Sharpies, masking tape, bits of cut-out plastic, scissors, cutting board and craft knife, and got down and crafty!<\/p>\n
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This was the result. Yes, curly bits of junk.<\/p>\n
OK, so it didn’t work out\u00a0quite <\/em>as I planned! The reason why, as a swift bit of googling revealed, was that I was using the wrong sort of plastic. I’d always seen\u00a0those little triangles with the numbers in but hadn’t really considered what they meant, other than ‘this can be recycled’. So I was using type 1, and I needed type 6… have a look at this wonderful infographic from MS Plastics<\/a>\u00a0to find out more!<\/p>\n You live and learn.<\/p>\n Now then – has anyone got any Type 6 I can scrounge?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"![\"An](\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/recycle\/files\/2017\/01\/plastic-containers_MS-Plastics1-1024x599.jpg\")
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