Edible Party Favors

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Looking for something unique and fun to pass out at your party? Try some edible party favors. The choices today are limitless. Some of my favorites are lollipops, cookies and anything chocolate.

Personalized lollipops are available in many different styles and flavors. Take yourself back to the good old days with a jumbo swirl lollipop. With festive personalized labels and colorful ribbon, swirl lollipops are an incredibly fun party favor. Having a pink and white party? Go for a pink and white swirl lollipop. Add a personalized label to match your colors or your theme. Keep it simple Take a look at the site here and elegant with a script monogram or add some whimsy with pink polka dots for a trendy favor. Many of the online shops offer cellophane and ribbon to finish off the lollipop.

Personalized lollipops also make great centerpieces. Fill a wide vase with jelly beans or tissue paper and place the pops in a decorative fashion to display in the middle of the table. Or cover a box with festive wrapping paper and poke some holes on top to hold the lollipops in place. Lollipops also make fun seating cards. Add your guests name and table to the label and display at the entrance of your party.

Hand decorated cookies are have become a very popular favor. Today's cookies are festive, bright, big and delicious. Cookie shapes are available to match just about any theme for any party. From Weddings and Baby Showers to Sweet 16's and Christenings, there is a perfect cookie favor for you. Many websites will allow you to purchase a sample to taste the cookie before placing your order. This is highly recommended. Also, please note that many of the bakers are not using preservatives today so the shelf life of a cookie may only be a few weeks. Make sure you check the ingredients before ordering and plan to have the cookies delivered close to the party date to insure freshness.

Lollipops and cookies not your thing? How about a scrumptious chocolate favor? There are truffles, candy bars, lollipops and more available in chocolate. Personalized chocolate bars are easy to find. There are so many companies today offering beautiful candy wrappers to place over the bars. You can never go wrong with a Hershey's bar. Chocolate photo lollipops are all the rage. Printed with edible ink, the whole lollipop is edible, even the photo. Truffles are an old time favorite. There are so many beautiful party favor boxes to hold your truffles. Order the truffles already in the box with a beautiful satin bow ready to pass out to your guests. Or, order the truffles and favor box kits separately for a do-it-yourself favor. Many companies offering party favor boxes sell them in easy to assemble kits with ribbon cut to size included.

So, the next time you are planning a party, sweetly thank your guests with a scrumptious edible favor.

The 18-gallon recycling bins are a box shaped recycling bin, which is good for any type of material you want to recycle. You can get them with and without lids, which make them a stackable type of container.

When you are recycling paper, you want a different container for each type of paper. The magazines, glossy printed flyers, newspaper inserts, phone books, envelopes, computer paper, old letters and paper packaging can all go into the same recycling bin. Newspapers however require their own bin just as corrugated cardboard and plastic lined drink boxes both requires separate containers.

Plastic will not decompose in a landfill. Some plastic containers can be recycled into other products. Unlike aluminum cans, which can be recycled into another aluminum can. Recycled drink bottles will not come back as another drink bottle. It may come back as a shower stall, plastic bags, plastic toys, motor oil bottles and the list goes on. There are several different types of plastic, so you will have to check with your recycle center to see what types of plastic they are equipped to take. There are some recycle centers, which are known as "All Plastic Recycling Centers", which means they will take any type of plastic. Just to give you an idea, plastic goods are assigned a number to grade them for recycling. #1 and #2 are for containers, #4 is for bags, and #7 is for mixed plastics and is not recyclable.

Plastic bottles are a valuable recyclable material. Tops of the bottles should be removed and placed in with the other regular plastic items. Plastic grocery bags can be recycled. Many grocery stores will have a container at the front of the store for customers to place their used grocery store bags into. Polystyrene cups, food trays and egg cartons will not biodegrade. Some plastic recycling centers will not accept the polystyrene items, but some due. Try to reduce your use of this material.

Plastic #5 can be recycled, but it has very little market value when it has been recycled. You are better off reusing them at home. These are the containers you will find cottage cheese, sour cream, butter, yogurt, etc.

Each different type of plastic will go into a different 18-gallon recycling bin. Recycling centers prefer you not lump them all together.

Glass is recycled by the color of the glass container, clear, green and brown and the recycling centers prefer they are separated in those colors. Paper labels can be left on the containers. Glass product such as light bulbs, mirrors, sheet glass, and Pyrex must be placed in a container away from the bottles because they have a different glass composition than the bottles. Compact fluorescent bulbs can be recycled at your local IKEA store.

Food cans are not made of aluminum but should be recycled. Aluminum cans are a valuable recyclable. Aluminum foil and foil packaging are also just as important to recycle as the cans. They can be used to make small engine parts.

Paint can, aerosol cans can be recycled. These are also considered to be hazardous waste, so they must be separated from other metals. Retain the paper labels because it is necessary for the recycler to know the material, which was in the cans. Try to keep the lid with the can it belongs to.

Copper is one of the most recyclable of all the metals. The alloys used with the copper to make up the copper products are also recyclable. When recycling copper, it only takes less than 15% of the energy it took to mine, mill, smelt and refine the copper in the first place.

As you can see you will have plenty of uses for the 18-gallon recycling container. The number of containers you will need will depend entirely on the number of materials you will be recycling.