{"id":2677,"date":"2020-03-17T11:22:46","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T11:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/host-students.com\/uncategorized\/upcycle-for-global-recycling-day\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T08:21:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T08:21:42","slug":"upcycle-for-global-recycling-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/host-students.com\/information\/new-students\/upcycle-for-global-recycling-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcycle for Global Recycling Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the third in our\u00a0sustainability series<\/a>, our guest blogger, Lisa, (one of our Customer Service Advisors in Sheffield) provides an easy upcycling project to do on Global Recycling Day.<\/p>\n

For Global Recycling Day<\/a> I wanted to give you guys a really easy upcycling project that any student can do, as it only requires a few items,many of which you will already have.<\/p>\n

My sister sent me a message the other day and asked me what she could do with some clothes that my nieces and nephews had grown out of. She explained that they were too well worn to take to the charity shop but couldn\u2019t compost them because they weren\u2019t made out of natural fibres. I was a bit stuck. I knew that there were some recycling centres that took scrap material but these were very few and far between and would probably mean travelling quite far out to find them.<\/p>\n

Then I remembered an event that the sustainability committee had organised once at my university – Scrunchie making with scraps of fabric! This was perfect for my sister as she is very crafty and has both boys and girls with long hair so I sent her a YouTube video. And you can do the same with any fabric that you don\u2019t want to throw away…<\/p>\n