Recycle, eh

If you want to start a business based on recycling materials but not sure how to start, read how Zoe Foster started her own business. Zoe established her successful business designing and making bags from recycled fabric and remnants she finds at car boot sales and charity shops around her home in Ludlow, England. 

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Etsy is a place you can go for inspiration. The last time I looked, there were over 140,000 items made from recycled materials. Here are my three fav sellers who recycle material or items to sell on Etsy.

Plastic Bag Bangles

GarbageofEdenDesign makes bangles were each made from two plastic bags collected from friends, family, and plastic bag returns in the New York City area.

Sap Bucket Recycling

Hindsvik is the Etsy site of a Canadian couple who sell 'junk'.  Their photos of their items are amazing and are probably the reason they are so successful. These two canny Canucks prove you don’t have to make or design stuff to sell green. You can sell stuff you already have but don’t need anymore or that you 'find' in your travels.

Yoghurt Lid Foil Necklace

Grellpastell has created an amazing necklace made entirely of rolled, coloured aluminum yoghurt lid foil. Talk about being enterprising! You rock, girl!

So, you see, you can make and sell just about anything. Recycling is a great way to get started if you are lacking the other green stuff ($$), it helps keep your costs down, develops your creativity, and keeps the landfills empty. Win-win.

What can you make, create, invent and sell today!

All photos from sellers' Etsy shops.