T-shirt Yarn!
First off reduce has been pretty easy to do for the last
several months since I lost my job. My
husband is still working, but we certainly have to consider every purchase we
make. I'm a crafty person so I find the
reuse and recycle part just part of my nature.
Packing lunches for my husband has changed. It used to be a lot of disposable plastic
bags but after considering the environment I've switched to using re-useable
containers. My favorite part of
recycling has been repurposing clothes.
I turn t-shirts into t-shirt yarn, and make book bags, rugs, and stuff
from it. I save old jeans too, they work good as patches for jeans we are still wearing.
We live in a community that recycles as well. We have one spot recycling where any
recyclable material can be put in a bin, and the garbage service sorts it out
at their facility.
I’m an historic preservation student at Savannah College of
Art & Design, so I’m learning a lot about sustainability of historical
buildings. That would be the ultimate in
reduce, reuse, recycle.