How Can I Recycle This? (www.recyclethis.org.uk) is a British blog that has readers submit reuse questions for everyone to respond to. People can send in a request for ideas for reusing old gloves, bubble wrap, banana boxes, and just about anything else you can think of. The authors of site and the other reads submit their ideas and personal pictures of ways that they’ve either reused something themselves or seen it reused somewhere else. It’s fun just going through the site and seeing all of the imaginative ways people are reusing everyday junk.
You can start your own idea-sharing effort either in your classroom or on a hallway bulletin board. Students (and staff) can share pictures and short descriptions of how they are reusing things.