9 Ways to ReUse Greeting Cards:
1. Create a great gift box out of your old gift cards: helpful instructions found on Crafty Pod 
and Scribbit 
2. Reuse them as a bookmark or for arts and crafts projects
3. Make a wonderful luminary 
(click image for step by step instructions from Zaka Life)
4. Reuse the blank portion of an old greeting card to write down all of your cooking recipes
5. Create a unique and elegant looking journal 
(click image on left for how to instructions from Crafty Daisies) 
6. Reuse them as postcards: All you need to transform the front side of a greeting card into a postcard is an address and some stamps.
7. Construct a magnetic clip to hang your lists up on the refrigerator 
8. Reuse a greeting card as a personalized gift tag 
9. Simply reuse a greeting card as note paper to take phone messages, write down daily lists, etc…
Benefits and Reasons to ReUse Greeting Cards:
- Reusing greeting cards prevents additional waste of paper and paper products that make up about 40% of the total municipal waste stream by weight
- In their book, Use Less Stuff: Environmental Solutions for Who We Really Are, environmentalists Robert Lilienfeld and William Rathje note that if everyone in the U.S. sent one less holiday card, we would save over 50,000 cubic yards of paper
– Like most forms of paper, greeting cards impact the environment adversely during their disposal and production alike, initially consuming virgin resources (trees, water, fuel) before ending up in landfills
- According to Environmental Health and Safety Online, Nnearly 81.3 million tons of paper & paperboard waste was generated in the U.S. in 1994 alone
- Americans buy almost 7 billion greeting cards annually, representing close to $7.5 billion in retail sales.
Information and Images gathered from: http://www.id2.ca/; http://www.squidoo.com/; http://www.ehow.com/; http://ecosalon.com/; http://myzerowaste.com/; http://www.squidoo.com/recycle; http://www.greenyour.com/; http://www.artistshelpingchildren.org/
