I am always looking for adjustments I can make so my habits are less wasteful. It’s about making small changes, a little bit at a time. Here are a few easy things you can do right now if you’re not already doing them.
1. Put a bag, bin, or can under your scrap area for recycling.
This one seems so obvious and I’m sure a lot of you do it already, but I scrapbooked almost an entire decade before it occurred to me to do this. I had a recycling bin in my pantry. Why not in my scrap area?
Most of our scraps can be recycled. Plus, because only clean things go in the recycling bag, I can reach down into it anytime I need a scrap to scribble or practice on, rather than use a new piece of notebook paper.
2. Use paint brushes instead of sponge brushes.
I have been gradually eliminating almost everything in my life that is disposable and investing in long-lasting reusable items instead.
3. Save the bags from your scrapbook store and take them with you when on your next scrapbook shopping trip. You see my cloth grocery bags above? They would hardly work for 12×12 papers, so I accept the bags the store uses. But there’s nothing that says I can’t reuse those bags over and over again.
What have you been doing to make your scrapbooking or other arts and crafts more eco-friendly? Please share your own tips by leaving a comment.
