RECYCLING AND RE-PURPOSING Many crafts such as quilting, started as recycling projects. Fabric was so valuable in colonial times that every scrap was saved and utilized. Industrious women kept their families warm and homes decorated by making use and reuse of materials. Creating art and practical items from recycled goods is an old practice! Most of us know and participate in waste recycling, sorting our plastics from cans from newspapers. Our progress in this area is remarkable and something we should all be very proud of. Many products are being made from post consumer recycles now from ...
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