Maria Lisa Polegatto December 2025
(Photo credit: Maria Lisa Polegatto)
Sustainable Junk Journals: Repurposing Junk into Creative Art
Introduction
All junk, trash, garbage, discarded or abandoned items, waste or debris (“junk”) has a story of it's own - from its origin, to its creation, to the place it rests before returning to the earth. Recycling, reclaiming and reusing these items is essential to keeping our natural environments clean. Nature nurtures our health, well being and creativity - gifts we need daily in our busy modern lives.
Every day junk ends up in landfills, making its way to all ecosystems, including wild areas (Polegatto, 2020). This junk can travel to rivers, streams, and marine environments due to inadequate recycling techniques, floods, and natural disasters (European Journal of Environment and Earth Sciences, 2025). This is detrimental to nature and species (Environment, 2025), which includes humanity.
Each year “19-23 million tonnes” of plastic pollution ends up contaminating water sources altering habitats, nature, ability of adaption of ecosystems to respond to climate change, affecting humanity’s livelihood, food production and societies well being (Environment, 2025). In terms of “municipal solid waste” humanity “generates between 2.1… and 2.3 billion tonnes” per year (UN Environment Programme, n.d.).
In 2020, earth’s tipping points were crossed where “the total mass of all human-made objects – totaling 1.2 trillion metric tons – surpassed the total biomass of all living things on Earth” of which the plastic portion was only made in the last 100 years (The Pew Charitable Trusts, 2025).
Junk is made by a variety of sources. Even when it is made, it is then used by a variety of businesses in their business spreading the use of junk around globally.
Junk is generated by multiple sources and, once created, is distributed and used by businesses globally, expanding its environmental footprint far beyond its point of origin. Sources of junk from source → user → environment, includes:
All junk, trash, garbage, discarded or abandoned items, waste or debris (“junk”) has a story of it's own - from its origin, to its creation, to the place it rests before returning to the earth. Recycling, reclaiming and reusing these items is essential to keeping our natural environments clean. Nature nurtures our health, well being and creativity - gifts we need daily in our busy modern lives.
Every day junk ends up in landfills, making its way to all ecosystems, including wild areas (Polegatto, 2020). This junk can travel to rivers, streams, and marine environments due to inadequate recycling techniques, floods, and natural disasters (European Journal of Environment and Earth Sciences, 2025). This is detrimental to nature and species (Environment, 2025), which includes humanity.
Each year “19-23 million tonnes” of plastic pollution ends up contaminating water sources altering habitats, nature, ability of adaption of ecosystems to respond to climate change, affecting humanity’s livelihood, food production and societies well being (Environment, 2025). In terms of “municipal solid waste” humanity “generates between 2.1… and 2.3 billion tonnes” per year (UN Environment Programme, n.d.).
In 2020, earth’s tipping points were crossed where “the total mass of all human-made objects – totaling 1.2 trillion metric tons – surpassed the total biomass of all living things on Earth” of which the plastic portion was only made in the last 100 years (The Pew Charitable Trusts, 2025).
Junk is made by a variety of sources. Even when it is made, it is then used by a variety of businesses in their business spreading the use of junk around globally.
Junk is generated by multiple sources and, once created, is distributed and used by businesses globally, expanding its environmental footprint far beyond its point of origin. Sources of junk from source → user → environment, includes:
- Food and beverage industry
- Retail and consumer goods
- Households
- Office & workplace settings
- Travel & hospitality
- Events & celebrations
- Industrial & commercial sources
Plastic pollution (Photo credit: Maria Lisa Polegatto)
Junk Ownership
I often hear people blaming manufacturers, businesses, retailers, or corporations for junk in environments. But the truth is simple: junk is two-fold and each of us is responsible for the junk we create and dispose of. Yes, we need junk to be produced in ways that can easily degrade and be eco-friendly - but, we can’t blame waste landing in nature on producers when they didn’t throw it there.
Once an item is purchased, it becomes that new owner’s responsibility to use and dispose of it properly, which includes any junk that comes with a product. Whether it’s a cup, wrapper, bottle, or packaging, it's litter and it’s up to each person to ensure junk is recycled, repurposed, and/or disposed of safely and properly.
Throwing junk out a vehicle window, leaving it in nature, or dumping it in public spaces only adds to the problem. It can also have far reached devastation - such as a lit cigarette bud causing a forest fire, plastic bags suffocating species, or balloons wrapping around species and strangling them. Death should not be the result of junk. There should instead be junk mitigation.
I often hear people blaming manufacturers, businesses, retailers, or corporations for junk in environments. But the truth is simple: junk is two-fold and each of us is responsible for the junk we create and dispose of. Yes, we need junk to be produced in ways that can easily degrade and be eco-friendly - but, we can’t blame waste landing in nature on producers when they didn’t throw it there.
Once an item is purchased, it becomes that new owner’s responsibility to use and dispose of it properly, which includes any junk that comes with a product. Whether it’s a cup, wrapper, bottle, or packaging, it's litter and it’s up to each person to ensure junk is recycled, repurposed, and/or disposed of safely and properly.
Throwing junk out a vehicle window, leaving it in nature, or dumping it in public spaces only adds to the problem. It can also have far reached devastation - such as a lit cigarette bud causing a forest fire, plastic bags suffocating species, or balloons wrapping around species and strangling them. Death should not be the result of junk. There should instead be junk mitigation.
Light bulb found in nature (Photo credit: Maria Lisa Polegatto)
Creative Reuse of Junk
Instead of misusing junk, we can instead reimagine it as a resource. We need to change our ways of being that benefit the environment. This can also lead to society coming together to collaboratively work on this issue. No act is too small to help.
Junk is what we consider to be “an object of low quality, little worth, and reduced value”, but that junk can still be useable – which is why junk can be both “a risk, but also an opportunity” and that junk can instead be valued through the process of “recycling or reuse” (Teixeira da Silva, 2022).
Some common junk items and their creative ideas include:
The reuse of junk is a way to reclaim what would otherwise become part of the existing global crisis – giving junk a second life.
The more we reuse, the less we throw away — and the smaller our environmental footprint becomes.
Instead of misusing junk, we can instead reimagine it as a resource. We need to change our ways of being that benefit the environment. This can also lead to society coming together to collaboratively work on this issue. No act is too small to help.
Junk is what we consider to be “an object of low quality, little worth, and reduced value”, but that junk can still be useable – which is why junk can be both “a risk, but also an opportunity” and that junk can instead be valued through the process of “recycling or reuse” (Teixeira da Silva, 2022).
Some common junk items and their creative ideas include:
- Glass jars can be used to hold items, including preserves and dehydrated food.
- Cardboard boxes can be used as a base in the garden retaining moisture in a much-needed warning environment.
- Plastic bottles can be used as garden watering tools.
- Old clothing can be repurposed into reusable cleaning cloths or up cycled for crafts or thrifted.
- Paper scraps can be shredded for compost, fire starters, or handmade recycled paper.
- Items from restaurants, hotels, places we travel to, can be used to make creative junk journals to save memories and the environment at the same time.
- Plastic cups can be used to hold water when making art.
The reuse of junk is a way to reclaim what would otherwise become part of the existing global crisis – giving junk a second life.
The more we reuse, the less we throw away — and the smaller our environmental footprint becomes.
Canadian Maple Leaf (Photo credit: Maria Lisa Polegatto)
"Squarely Sustainable...
"Use Less...Use Better...Spark Action... Engage Partners"
(Esposito, 2019)
"Use Less...Use Better...Spark Action... Engage Partners"
(Esposito, 2019)
Junk Journaling
One way to reuse junk is to make junk journals by reusing materials that would otherwise be discarded. The great thing about junk journals is there is no wrong way to create them. While everyone can use the same materials, everyone can create a different result.
I made a junk journal (Polegatto, 2025) from my favorite fast-food restaurant packaging (Wendy's, 2025) and 2025 Gold winner of my local CommunityVotes Awards for fast food (CommunityVotes, n.d.) - Wendy’s Restaurant . The junk journal turned into:
While junk journals are not a new concept, we need to take a new view of what junk is and whether it is really junk or artistic supplies that can be used for purposes other than was originally intended.
I started to look at my junk creatively and instead saw letters, words, images, colors, patterns, designs, and ideas that I could transform into art. We can innovate the future with today’s junk – that’s creative but also a way to turn junk into a sustainable option to reduce, reuse, recycle. This can help to:
The UN SDG’s include 17 sustainable development goals across all ecosystems – air, water, and land (United Nations, n.d.). These SDGs are global, multi sector goals to guide society wide progress. All SDGs are not meant to be able to be met by single businesses but rather they guide where applicable. Many businesses focus on 3 to 7 of the SDGs that relate to their business activity.
Wendy’s already achieves eight (8) SDG goals in relation to:
The support and participation in the use of their packaging for creative uses adds to their SDG achievements connecting ecosystems without adding more packaging or designing. In this way, there can be a collaborative understanding and use of junk between producer, user, and community, including a social connection.
Every wrapper, bag, piece of packaging - plastic or other, we reclaim is a small but meaningful act of sustainability. This junk is then prevented from ending up in nature which would then end up in waterways and eventually the ocean where it would be eaten by species, such as turtles who can die as a result or fish who are then eaten by humanity which can cause human illnesses from the pollution (Polegatto, 2020). It is a vicious cycle.
One way to reuse junk is to make junk journals by reusing materials that would otherwise be discarded. The great thing about junk journals is there is no wrong way to create them. While everyone can use the same materials, everyone can create a different result.
I made a junk journal (Polegatto, 2025) from my favorite fast-food restaurant packaging (Wendy's, 2025) and 2025 Gold winner of my local CommunityVotes Awards for fast food (CommunityVotes, n.d.) - Wendy’s Restaurant . The junk journal turned into:
- a creative chronicle.
- saved what most discard as junk.
- sparked an interest for me to examine junk being used for innovative sustainability without prior intention.
- research noted the “foil-coated paper should be used in place of plastic packaging materials” (European Journal of Environment and Earth Sciences, 2025) which is decorative in a junk journal.
- created a unique junk journal.
While junk journals are not a new concept, we need to take a new view of what junk is and whether it is really junk or artistic supplies that can be used for purposes other than was originally intended.
I started to look at my junk creatively and instead saw letters, words, images, colors, patterns, designs, and ideas that I could transform into art. We can innovate the future with today’s junk – that’s creative but also a way to turn junk into a sustainable option to reduce, reuse, recycle. This can help to:
- Use junk as an supply.
- Educate people in ways to participate in a more sustainable future.
- Innovate ways to produce packaging.
- Encourage people to practice sustainability.
- Contribute to various United Nation's Sustainable Development Goats (SDGs).
The UN SDG’s include 17 sustainable development goals across all ecosystems – air, water, and land (United Nations, n.d.). These SDGs are global, multi sector goals to guide society wide progress. All SDGs are not meant to be able to be met by single businesses but rather they guide where applicable. Many businesses focus on 3 to 7 of the SDGs that relate to their business activity.
Wendy’s already achieves eight (8) SDG goals in relation to:
- Food – 2-zero hunger; 12-responsible consumption & production;
- Footprint – 9-industry, innovation and infrastructure; 13-climate action; 15-life on land; and
- People – 8-decent work & economic growth; 10-reduced inequalities; 17-partnerships for the goals (Wendy’s, 2024).
The support and participation in the use of their packaging for creative uses adds to their SDG achievements connecting ecosystems without adding more packaging or designing. In this way, there can be a collaborative understanding and use of junk between producer, user, and community, including a social connection.
Every wrapper, bag, piece of packaging - plastic or other, we reclaim is a small but meaningful act of sustainability. This junk is then prevented from ending up in nature which would then end up in waterways and eventually the ocean where it would be eaten by species, such as turtles who can die as a result or fish who are then eaten by humanity which can cause human illnesses from the pollution (Polegatto, 2020). It is a vicious cycle.
(credit: United Nations)
Junk Sources, Creativity and Uses
There are a variety of uses for junk to enter our lives instead of being buried or floating in our environment. Some sources you can be creative with:
You can add your own creative flair to your journals or art so the overlooked is instead unique:
Uses of junk in junk journaling includes making creative items, such as:
The idea is to reuse existing junk creatively instead of adding more junk into the environment. Look at your junk - are there words, designs, letters, colors on them you can creatively use?
Corporate packaging is designed with a great deal of time and creativity - why waste it.
There are a variety of uses for junk to enter our lives instead of being buried or floating in our environment. Some sources you can be creative with:
- Old Book covers or pages
- Envelopes – existing or used
- Crosswords and puzzles
- Junk mail
- Fabric scraps and textiles for binding and decoration
- Toilet paper rolls
- Packing paper, plastic, or foil
- Magazines and flyers
- Receipts and ticket stubs
- Brown paper bags
- Restaurant packaging, ie: wrappers, bags, packaging, promotions
- Hotels flyers, postcards, note pads
- Cereal or cookie boxes
- Wrappers, labels and cups
- Cardboard for journal covers
- Napkins - unused of course :)
- Wendy's Thin Mints Frosty Activity Book (Wendy's, 2025) for decoration
- Plastic cups - to hold water or paint - that's what I use them for
- Plastic containers to hold items in your shed or garage or craft items
- Plastic bubble tops of Frosty's used as windows on journal covers
- Bubble wrap
- Tissue paper and wrapping paper
You can add your own creative flair to your journals or art so the overlooked is instead unique:
- Drawing and doodling
- Painting, watercolor, color pencils
- DIY collage pages
- Spirograph and stencils
- Yarns and string
- Stamps with eco ink
- Glue sticks instead of toxic glue
- DIY notebooks with scrap paper
Uses of junk in junk journaling includes making creative items, such as:
- Pockets - transform paper into envelops or areas to put things in your journal.
- Tags - these are great removable items to put in journal pockets.
- Notes - Add them to your journal to write on - can be the paper bag cut into a small note book tucked into a journal pocket.
- DIY Collage - gather up the small pieces, paste them all on a sheet, for a DIY collage design.
- Pages - use the paper bags as pages in a journal to decorate on.
- Zines - DIY mini magazines to decorate with junk.
- Journal - make a cover with a box you reuse to create a journal from scratch.
- Design- use the junk designs, words, letters, quotes, to decorate your journal.
The idea is to reuse existing junk creatively instead of adding more junk into the environment. Look at your junk - are there words, designs, letters, colors on them you can creatively use?
Corporate packaging is designed with a great deal of time and creativity - why waste it.
Every wrapper has a story!
 Wendy's Junk Journal (Photo credit: Maria Lisa Polegatto) |  Wendy's Junk Journal (Photo credit: Maria Lisa Polegatto) |
“Doing the right thing, in the right way…
delivering more with less environmental impact.”
(Wendy's, 2025b)
delivering more with less environmental impact.”
(Wendy's, 2025b)
Community Responsibility
Junk mitigation is a shared effort. Picking up litter when you see it, recycling correctly, and reducing unnecessary purchases all make a difference. But real change happens when each person takes ownership of their impact and leads by example.
When we treat junk as a personal responsibility, we protect not only our environment but also our communities and future generations. Leaving at a store the box or packaging to be disregarded or taking it home and reusing it sustainably can help.
While I was at the ocean one day having a snack with my dog at our vehicle after enjoying the many healing benefits of nature (Polegatto, 2024). A vehicle drove up, the person got out, coffee cup in hand, walked forward into nature returning with comment “there’s nothing here” with coffee cup missing! I was speechless. Obviously, they discarded the coffee cup in nature – where it would land in the ocean and didn’t see the obvious - they were in nature, not a state of nothingness.
I often go deep into nature for the awe and wonder of the natural world. I am refreshed, rejuvenated and resilient in nature as it restores me. There are many benefits of being in nature from using our senses, the ecological shield to experiencing better wellness (Polegatto, 2024).
Nature is a part of us, and we are a part of nature. We need to live in synergy with nature. With the changing and unpredictable weather, fires, floods, we are well beyond the need to mitigate the effects of climate change. If we don’t respect nature, it can’t support us by filtering the air, cleaning the water, and freely fertilizing the land (Polegatto, 2024) while interconnecting with all ecosystems and species (Polegatto, 2020).
Junk mitigation is a shared effort. Picking up litter when you see it, recycling correctly, and reducing unnecessary purchases all make a difference. But real change happens when each person takes ownership of their impact and leads by example.
When we treat junk as a personal responsibility, we protect not only our environment but also our communities and future generations. Leaving at a store the box or packaging to be disregarded or taking it home and reusing it sustainably can help.
While I was at the ocean one day having a snack with my dog at our vehicle after enjoying the many healing benefits of nature (Polegatto, 2024). A vehicle drove up, the person got out, coffee cup in hand, walked forward into nature returning with comment “there’s nothing here” with coffee cup missing! I was speechless. Obviously, they discarded the coffee cup in nature – where it would land in the ocean and didn’t see the obvious - they were in nature, not a state of nothingness.
I often go deep into nature for the awe and wonder of the natural world. I am refreshed, rejuvenated and resilient in nature as it restores me. There are many benefits of being in nature from using our senses, the ecological shield to experiencing better wellness (Polegatto, 2024).
Nature is a part of us, and we are a part of nature. We need to live in synergy with nature. With the changing and unpredictable weather, fires, floods, we are well beyond the need to mitigate the effects of climate change. If we don’t respect nature, it can’t support us by filtering the air, cleaning the water, and freely fertilizing the land (Polegatto, 2024) while interconnecting with all ecosystems and species (Polegatto, 2020).
(Photo credit: Maria Lisa Polegatto)
Good Done Right (Wendy's, 2024)
Conclusion
Wendy's motto, "Good Done Right" (Wendy's, 2024), isn't just about "good" food "done" the "right" way - it reflects their commitment to quality, responsible sourcing, and environmental care. We can take inspiration from this mindset. Every scrap of junk we reclaim for a junk journal is a personal act of "Good Done Right" - turning junk into art, memories, and meaningful steps to a cleaner, more creativity, sustainable world.
The next time you are about to throw away junk - pause for a moment to really look at it, feel it's texture, it's weight, it's story. Then ask yourself if there is a way to transform the junk into something beautiful.
Even major brands recognize the impact of packaging on our environment. Wendy’s states, “We want to be a part of the solution — not part of the problem,” (Esposito, 2019) and aims to “sustainably source 100% of our customer‑facing packaging by 2026” (Wendy's, n.d.). Yet, even with these efforts, their packaging still ends up as waste. No one business can solve litter themselves.
That’s where creativity meets responsibility. By repurposing packaging into junk journals, we give discarded materials a second life, transforming what could pollute our land, waterways, and oceans into meaningful art. Every page becomes a reminder that sustainability isn’t just corporate responsibility — it’s personal action of creative reuse that contributes to cleaner environments and inspires others to rethink waste.
Junk journals are great for people of all ages to create, contribute to, and share with each other. Gather up your supplies - from meals, trips and daily life - give them a home in your journal, honor their origins and create art with your hands. In this way, the scraps of junk are an act of restoration to where it came from - the earth - to nurture, honor, engage and connect with care.
Every act of sustainability we as individuals do makes a difference. Let’s start being a part of the solution. Every piece of junk handled properly and creatively is one less threat to humanity, wildlife, ecosystems, and the planet we all share.
Let’s innovate a cleaner, creative, beautiful future where sustainability becomes a daily way of life.
Wendy's motto, "Good Done Right" (Wendy's, 2024), isn't just about "good" food "done" the "right" way - it reflects their commitment to quality, responsible sourcing, and environmental care. We can take inspiration from this mindset. Every scrap of junk we reclaim for a junk journal is a personal act of "Good Done Right" - turning junk into art, memories, and meaningful steps to a cleaner, more creativity, sustainable world.
The next time you are about to throw away junk - pause for a moment to really look at it, feel it's texture, it's weight, it's story. Then ask yourself if there is a way to transform the junk into something beautiful.
Even major brands recognize the impact of packaging on our environment. Wendy’s states, “We want to be a part of the solution — not part of the problem,” (Esposito, 2019) and aims to “sustainably source 100% of our customer‑facing packaging by 2026” (Wendy's, n.d.). Yet, even with these efforts, their packaging still ends up as waste. No one business can solve litter themselves.
That’s where creativity meets responsibility. By repurposing packaging into junk journals, we give discarded materials a second life, transforming what could pollute our land, waterways, and oceans into meaningful art. Every page becomes a reminder that sustainability isn’t just corporate responsibility — it’s personal action of creative reuse that contributes to cleaner environments and inspires others to rethink waste.
Junk journals are great for people of all ages to create, contribute to, and share with each other. Gather up your supplies - from meals, trips and daily life - give them a home in your journal, honor their origins and create art with your hands. In this way, the scraps of junk are an act of restoration to where it came from - the earth - to nurture, honor, engage and connect with care.
Every act of sustainability we as individuals do makes a difference. Let’s start being a part of the solution. Every piece of junk handled properly and creatively is one less threat to humanity, wildlife, ecosystems, and the planet we all share.
Let’s innovate a cleaner, creative, beautiful future where sustainability becomes a daily way of life.
(Photo credit: Maria Lisa Polegatto)
Call to Action
Every scrap of junk, wrapper, bag, packaging has a story – reusing junk invites that story to speak again. I challenge you to look at “junk” creatively and create new sustainable ways of being.
Remember, sustainability isn’t perfection – it’s paying attention, experimenting, and creatively innovating ways of being that honor nature, and ultimately support the planet, nature and species of which humanity is a part of.
Every scrap of junk, wrapper, bag, packaging has a story – reusing junk invites that story to speak again. I challenge you to look at “junk” creatively and create new sustainable ways of being.
- What projects have you created using discarded or overlooked materials?
- Has this post inspired you to use junk in a new, creative way?
- Have you created a junk journal?
Remember, sustainability isn’t perfection – it’s paying attention, experimenting, and creatively innovating ways of being that honor nature, and ultimately support the planet, nature and species of which humanity is a part of.
Wendy's Junk Journal (YouTube credit: Maria Lisa Polegatto). If video does not load - use this Link.
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Junk Journal Word Art (credit: Maria Lisa Polegatto)
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