Do You Recycle / Upcycle?

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In my town, we are required to recycle. We have one large bin for garbage, and one for recyclables-glass, cans,and paper. Beside the normal household recyclables that get tossed in the bin, i have found other ways to recycle. I make rag rugs from old t shirts . The one pictured was made by crocheting with cotton threads around t shirt material. I scored a bunch of cones of thick threads from a lady for free. She used to do some kind of weaving. Not as thick as yarn, but pretty strong and worked out nicely for this rug. I have made totes from cutting up plastic shopping bags into stripes, then crochet with the strips to make the bag. Each one can use up 100 plastic bags easily. I reuse shipping boxes, and also reuse jars to store my buttons etc in. What ways do you recycle or upcycle?