Pizza carton, ideas for creative recycling. How to recycle the pizza cardboard in a creative way? Here are some ideas to take inspiration from.
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Il pizza carton, represents one of the most common mistakes when doing separate collection. In fact, it should not be thrown entirely into the cardboard bin, at least in the portions of it that are greasy and dirty with food residues.
And then dwhere to throw the pizza containers? In the municipalities where organic is collected, it is possible to place them in the waste bin, otherwise in the unsorted bin. The pizza box, however, lends itself well to being reused for the realization of numerous projects of creative recyclingo and in particular to obtain toys with which children can have fun in a simple way at virtually no cost, as well as home furnishings, such as a do-it-yourself table lamp or decorative squares.
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DIY lamp
The project was born from the reuse of the pizza box opensource for the home making of a do-it-yourself lamp, to be built following the instructions of its creators, made available for free online. With the next clean pizza box you could try to make 01Lamp, the table lamp with LED light.
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Grow wheat grass
Have you ever thought of cultivate wheatgrass in home? With it you can get a really healthy drink to be consumed at breakfast and with very little expense. The container for its cultivation can be easily made starting from a pizza box. Within a week, you will have yours rich harvest!
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PC support
There are numerous plastic supports on sale to lift the portatile from the table and place it at the desired height for easier use. However, such a purchase will not be necessary if you recover a pizza box and fold it in the right way until you get your support at no cost.
Soccer
A pizza box, white and green tempera are all that is needed to create a new DIY game with which the little ones can have fun. They will also be able to help you create the goals and white stripes needed to complete the football pitch.
Squares
Starting from the pizza boxes it is possible to obtain supports for the realization of decorative squares to hang on the walls. They can be lined with colored paper, with the pages of old comic magazines, or hand painted, depending on your creativity.
Solar oven
Starting from the pizza box it is possible to build a small solar oven, suitable for summer cooking of vegetables such as courgettes, for melting chocolate and for reheating food. The inner part of the pizza box must be coated with aluminum foil and supports, for example wooden sticks, must be inserted to keep the lid off.
stencil
If you wish decoration in a creative way The walls of your home, make sure to make stencils at no cost starting from the pizza box, carving the desired shapes inside it. THE results obtained will be truly surprising.
Toy kitchen
Another creative idea for recycling pizza cardboard, which will be very fun for children, consists in making a kitchen top toy, complete with painted hobs and knobs that recall the functioning of a real kitchen. The hob can be part of an entire toy kitchen made with recycled materials.
Easel for painting
Here's also how to make an easel to paint from a pizza box. It will be resealable and will allow the creation of a support on which to place the sheets necessary for painting and drawing, as well as containers for watercolors and tempera colors.
Puzzle
As for the creative recycling of the pizza carton, there is no shortage of ideas dedicated to children and the game. So here is an idea that allows the creation of a puzzle or interlocking molds to be cut out of the cardboard of the pizza container. To the pieces of the puzzle they can be combined with different colors, for example by applying caps, in order to create an educational pastime.
Kennel for the cat
Starting with a pizza box, the dog's bed for the cat it is done in a minute, to the happiness of our four-legged friend. Simply fold in, or remove, the lid of the container, and place a folded blanket, an old towel or a soft pillow inside.
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Children's watch
The pizza box is strong enough to make a clock complete with hands to hang in the children's room and use to teach them how to read the hours. Once a round disk has been cut out, the numbers indicating the hours will be traced on it. The hands will be fixed in the center with a sample holder.
Nest
Il pizza carton, folded to form a box or if small, it can be used for the construction of a nest to accommodate birds, to be placed on the balcony, on the windowsill or on a garden table and to be filled with dry leaves and twigs , without forgetting a bowl for water and one manger for the grains.
Drawers
Once more pizza boxes have been assembled and a sturdy cardboard container has been created, or starting from an existing support, it will be possible to create a drawers, to be used in particular for rearranging documents or photographs, or for collecting, for example to preserve one's own stamp collection.
Bongo bell
One last idea recalls a pastime for children that dates back to the past, when modern toys did not exist and were played in the open air. This is the game of the "bell", to be made by arranging on the ground some squares obtained from the pizza boxes and numbered, according to the schema predetermined.
Marta Albè
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