How to Recycle Clip Art Paper
Clip art paper is any paper used to print electronic clip art images for a project. As with most types of printing, leftover paper often remains when the project is complete: sheets or half-sheets from reprinting an image that may have originally been an incorrect size, color or brightness; or excess paper pieces that remain after cutting out clip art. As this paper waste is a reusable resource, it is important that you don't simply throw the paper away in the trash. Instead, many avenues exist to give the paper new life.
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Instructions
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Stack full or half-sheets of clip art paper on a paper cutter and cut the stack into smaller sheets to use as note or list paper. Write on the blank back of the sheets or write on the clip art sides if the image is small--the clip art can simulate the artwork or stamp printed on manufactured note and list paper found in retail stores.
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Add the clip art to another project or use it to create artwork or other usable items in your home, office, classroom or other area. For example, save holiday clip art for next year to use in new holiday projects. Create cards with clip art paper, or make a papier-mâché sculpture or piñata.
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Donate the clip art paper to a school, hospital, retirement community, nursing home or other organization. Many organizations don't have large budgets and can reuse the clip art or the paper in projects or around an office.
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Take your clip art paper bundled in a paper bag or tied together in a stack with twine to a local waste paper facility, or place the paper in an office or curbside paper-recycling bin for pickup, to be recycled with other office paper to make new paper products
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Tips & Warnings
To create a notebook from your clip art paper, cut two pieces of cardboard the same size as a stack of the paper. With a hole punch, punch a hole through the stack 1/2 inch in from the top right or left corner, or two or three holes 1/2 inch in from the right or left side. Align a punched sheet on one cardboard piece and punch through the hole in the paper through the cardboard. Repeat with the second piece. Restack the sheets with the cardboard on the top and bottom of the stack. Tie the paper and cardboard together with twine or ribbon. If you have leftover clip art images you like, glue them to the front and/or back of your "notebook."
