Gloss How-To: Recycling Halloween Candy Wrappers

Posted on November 1, 2011 by GLOSS STAFF

Now that you and your kids have a bag (or more) full of candy from last night’s trick or treating, how about giving some thought to what will happen to all the wrappers after your belly is full of sugary treats?

Be sweet to the environment with one of more of these ideas to make the best use of those wrappers:

TerraCycle: We’ve already mentioned TerraCycle–a company that collects potato chip bags and food wrappers to make useful products. Join their Candy Wrapper Brigade to turn in your wrappers for some cash! Just sign-up and they’ll send you prepaid postage labels–for each wrapper you send it, TerraCycle will donate $0.02 to your favorite charity or school.

Make a Candy Wrapper Purse: You’ve probably seen them retailing for over $100, but with a little skill, you can make a trendy purse, clutch or tote out of those wrappers! Check out tutorials at eHow.com or wikiHow.com. I’m going to start easy and make a little coin holder out of Starburst wrappers…

Do you have other ideas to share? Let us know!