Recycle vinyl blinds into plant markers

This is an ingenious idea for those vinyl blinds that drive me absolutely crazy. Crafting a green world shows you how to transform your time-to-be-gone vinyl blinds into indestructible chives markers - { click here }

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[Jennifer Taggart, TheSmartMama]

While this seems like a good idea, I would be concerned using these in soil for growing because older vinyl blinds may be stabilized with lead and may also contain phthalates. If not stabilized with lead, they could be stabilized with cadmium.

[Misty Gibbs]

Thanks Jennifer for bringing this up. I didn't even think of that. I looked into this over at Crafting a green world, the source for this brilliant idea, and this her response after researching it- "vinyl blinds imported for US sale around 1996 or earlier have lead as a finishing agent, and these can decompose with direct sunlight. Around that time the CPSC changed the law, promoted new packaging labeling, and encouraged families with young children to dispose of imported vinyl miniblinds.

Our vinyl miniblinds that we used for these plant markers are only a couple of years old, and don’t contain lead. In my experience, miniblinds don’t last terribly long, anyway–they’re always breaking or getting bent or something, so fortunately it’s getting less likely that those older imported miniblinds would be around, but I know it is possible.1996 or earlier imported blinds shouldn’t be recycled into craft projects–those should be discarded as hazardous waste."