Recycling metal items from your household is an excellent way to save energy and help reduce overall waste. In fact, recycling metals produces the largest energy savings of any other material. The process of recycling compared with the process of producing aluminium, lead and steel requires 94 percent, 75 percent and 72 percent less energy, respectively. Depending on the type of metal you have and the amount you have will determine whether it's best to recycle from your home or bring it in to a local scrap yard. Once you've figured out the type of metal you have, you'll need to properly sort and clean it.
Chucking out some coat hangers, copper wire or metal cans? Have you thought about giving them a second purpose instead? There is a surprising amount of ways to reuse metals that we’d normally throw away without a second thought. You can turn it into practical items like storage and holders, or let your creativity run wild and create art that will brighten up your home. In this blog, we are going through the creative and fun ways you can turn your metal trash into treasure.
How to Recycle Metals
Metal Cans
The possibilities for using metal cans around your home are practically endless. With a fresh coat of paint or punching a few holes, your metal cans could be the pride and joy of your home. Here are some things you can turn your cans into:
- Lanterns: just carve out some holes and put in a candle
- Pen holder: just clean out a can and paint it, then you have a cute new holder for your pens, paint brushes or anything else
- Cookie cutters: if you have a soda can then you can bend into cute shapes for your baking
- Metal flowers: you cut the top on the can then cut vertically to make petals
- Jewellery: you can cut and bend cans into pendants and bracelets
There truly is so much you can do with cans; the only limit is your imagination.
With the right know how you can turn plain old cans into a brilliant work of art. In fact, metal can art can be incredibly stunning, just check out Noah Deledda’s work. Scrap metal art takes a bit of fiddling but it’s an art form for everybody. You can start by cutting the metal into animal and geometric shapes and go from here.
Copper wire
Copper wire is easily bent and shaped into beautiful art. Because it is sturdy, aesthetically pleasing and malleable it’s a sort after material for artists. It is good for making a strong base and framework for sculptures. Your new ground-breaking, soul-inspiring artwork will hold together with decent copper wire.
If you don’t mind a bit of arts and crafts copper wire can be used to upgrade your décor. For starters, you can use it to replace string for hanging up picture frames, artwork and mirrors. If you hang a metal peg off some copper wire you have a new way to put reminders around the home. You can even use it to hang pot plants! If you’re extra crafty you can turn copper wire into candle holders, napkin holders, baskets and Christmas decorations.
Also, with the right copper wire, you can set up some fascinating and cool science experiments for your kids. You can start with a simple copper wire and battery experiment and go from there. Copper wire is conductive and is a key element in a lot of electromagnetic experiments.
Coat hangers
If you’re about to replace or throw out your coat hangers hold your horses. You can use coat hangers in other ways around your home. All you need is a decent pair of pliers. There are plenty of life hacks with coat hangers that will make you want to hang onto them:
- Towel holders
- Pot lid holders
- Magazine wrack
- Tablet holder
- Pot plant holder
- Bowls
- Wreaths and decorations
- Frame for vines, tomatoes and other plants
Just like with copper wire, you can use metal coat hangers in your art. For example, they can be easily be bent into frames and stands for sculptures. Start playing around and see where your creativity takes you.
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