As we increasingly seek to reduce our waste and give objects a second life, here are some great ideas for recycling your tea cans. Popular for their colors, their refined design and their stackability, Kusmi Tea boxes will easily find their place in your interiors. If not, consider throwing these metal boxes into your recycling bin. Make way for tutorials and long live DIY (Do it yourself)!
1/ Refill your tea box with loose tea.
We'll start with the obvious, but why not refill your tea box... with tea? At Kusmi, all teas are also sold in bulk, in order to reduce packaging consumption. A solution economical, practical and ecological, which works endlessly! Recyclable metal tea cans are specially designed to keep the loose tea away from humidity or heat in order to preserve all the flavors. Of course, it is also possible with other foodstuffs (lentils, rice, seeds, legumes, etc.), specifying everything with a label.
2/ Make it into a pencil box.
Here's a lazy DIY: keep the tea box as is, don't change anything, except what you put inside! These can be pens, felt-tip pens, chalks, colored pencils. But also cutlery or dried flowers. Children can keep their little toys or their first treasures there (pearls, pebbles, shells, etc.).
3/ Light a candle.
It’s not just jam jars that can be kept to make candle containers, it also works with tea boxes. To avoid getting hot wax everywhere, or drowning the wick, we recommend that you follow a DIY. At least for the first time. Here are some a very detailed, where each step is illustrated with a photo. Thank you Soho Hana! Looking for a DIY candle? You are in the right place.
4/ Grow a plant there.
More original than terracotta pots, more aesthetic than plastic pots, tea boxes can accommodate, and highlight, plants. Follow the guide with this article which details how to repot a cactus and how to grow mint on it. Tip: you can even buy mint already ripe, if you don't have the patience to grow it!
5/ And why not one bedside lamp ?
Here is a DIY bedside lamp that has the merit of being original!
Of course, it requires a little more technique, perhaps even getting help from an expert, but there are more and more “fablabs”, or manufacturing workshops to get support. Méli Mélo, a German blogger, explains how she reused the tea box given to her by a friend, adding a light bulb and an electric cable. She also says that it was her father who helped her, in particular to drill the holes for the socket and the cable. Ambitious !