Join in turning plastic into useful items on March 9

With everyday essentials like grocery bags, food/drink wrappers, Ziplock baggies, and packaging, we go through a lot of plastic each day! While a small portion of this ends up recycled, most of it winds up in the landfill, where it will stay for hundreds of years and never completely decompose.

In the spirit of “reduce, reuse, recycle,” the Arts & Crafts Club and Stewards of Sustainability Club are hosting an upcycling event, where we will have a few crafts to create art out of old materials! We will gather from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, March 9, in Brougher. Projects will include:

  • Transforming old plastic packaging into functional wallets, pencil pouches and jewelry
  • Turning plastic grocery bags into yarn for knitting/crocheting
  • Using wood scraps to build a bug hotel for the Stewards of Sustainability Club’s garden

If you are interested in this event, please sign up here and start collecting (clean) plastic trash to bring!

Feel free to reach out to Lilly McAfee at lmcafee19@georgefox.edu with any questions.

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