RECYCLEMANIA started this Sunday (Jan 17th). This is a national recycling competition among colleges and universities. According to Burton, our EcoRep organizer at the College of Charleston, over 500 schools have signed on so far. He also notes “that there are lots of finer points to this competition but in essence, the more we recycle (and the less we throw in the trash) the better we do in the competition — it is weighted by school population.”
I ran across this on instructables.com this morning and I thought it was a project well within the spirit of Recyclemania. The covers could be replaced with a number of items, including recycled cardboard and would make a nice palette for stenciling recycling messages on the covers. If we used recycled paper for the inside of the notebook it would be even better. I wonder if we could use recycled spirals? The instructions were inspired by Ivy Lane Designs, “home of the ORIGINAL recycled/upcycled eco journals/notebooks, handmade from discarded boxes headed for the landfill. Helping the environment, one recycled notebook at a time.”
VHS Spiral Bound Notebook – More DIY How To Projects
Here is a link to the recyclemania site: http://www.recyclemania.org/
