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Before you throw your food waste products in the trash, see how creative you can become with you’re recycling techniques!

Pouring bacon grease down the sink will ultimately clog up the drain. Here’s an alternative, take the grease and pour it in a jar add some stale bread crumbs, seeds or grains, place a string in the mixture (leaving enough length to tie) and refrigerate. When the grease has hardened you have a new bird feeder to hang from your tree!

The paper that is wrapped around butter sticks is great for greasing the bottom of pans for cooking. Keep some extras handy in the refrigerator to be used the next time that you’re baking.

Vegetable, chicken, fish and other meat scraps can be used in making stock and what is left over can be tossed in your compost bin.

Cereal bags can be used again as a food storage bag or you can grease it up and use to line the bottom of baking dishes.

Old coffee grounds are great in a compost bin!

As a teenager I used to use my parents old wine bottles as a candle holder, all the different colored waxes melting down the sides of the bottle always looked really cool to me! You can also use them for homemade concoctions as gifts!

Baby food jars can be used for a multitude of things! Fill them full of soy wax and make a candle, they make great gift jars for homemade jams or jellies, or you can use them for storage in the garage by filling them with screws, bolts or nails!

There are many different uses for regular household food items, get a little creative before you pitch them into the trash or the recycle bin! These were just few of my ideas, see how many of your own that you can come with and share them with us!

~Wind

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