Artificial flowers

I am situated behind a cemetery. In Jan and Feb my driveway serves as a funnel and I receive a multitude of plastic flowers from the prevailing winds.  I have always accepted my task of walking my property a couple of times a month to pick up the trash.  Now I am wondering if these artificial flowers can be put to better use.  Ideas?

That's a sad problem to have.....
Many people like articificial flowers in their houses. Maybe the better ones could be cleaned and rearranged to make new arrangements or corsages.
I would approach the cemetery authorities and ask if they can encourage people to use sculptures, real flowers or plant bulbs for perennial flowers rather than leave trash on their loved ones graves. We planted snowdrops on my Dad's grave which I know will bloom on the anniversary of his passing.

I like flowers.

I have no place to buy real flowers so I do have one bouquet of silk flowers.

These are in a vase that at one time contained real flowers.

A few countries and states have reuse centers -- places that accept donations of scraps, over production, etc. for crafters, teachers, artists and such to buy at a discount. If you have anything like that in your area, I wonder if they accept artificial flowers.

I back up to a graveyard, there's a trash pile to be burned that last time I measured it was over 40 feet long by 20 feet deep by 7 feet high. Some of that is branches, most is fake flowers. I harvest them by the thousands....

I used a bunch to pin down the edges of chicken wire fencing the bunnies were pushing their way through, works really well! I have replaced or added to them several times. FlowerHenge! Function stacking weirdness

I use them on my property as markers, the grass grows fast and deep, anything not bright is gone in a week. I have lost rebar painted neon orange in less than two weeks, stakes are a waste of time, and the little flags are worse. A well chosen bouquet of flowers stuck in the ground still shows up at least a bit even when it's in the grass. I mark where there are hazards to avoid, or a line to follow with equipment. The caveat there is they die, and if you don't clean them up, you have fabric, plastic and wire running loose.  Used carefully, though, they work VERY well.

I use them for decor, I made grapevine wreaths out of the wild grapes vines that were eating this rental's siding. I made them with permanent attachment points in a pattern, and now change the flowers out seasonally, takes only a few minutes. We have them in the house, in vases and here and there, They are strung like leis on the bug tent I made mom so she can drink her tea on the porch. A lot of my Christmas decor in the house this year involved gold and white fake poinsettias. The beds that were here on the front of the house that someone attempted to fill with rocks to keep the weeds down, but that only worked well enough to keep any plants I plant there from growing, I usually have something fake blooming in them; periodically I remove the fake flowers, pull all the weeds, and replace them with new flowers. I make sure the fence hold down flowers on the path where my mom walks as she's going out to the graveyard for her daily walk are always the prettiest ones.

I put in my flowerhenge thread that the social issue of reselling them is odd here.

Pearl from the thread linked above wrote:I had a couple of high school girls working for me, they saw them, and looked horrified "Those look like graveyard flowers!" "They are, they come out of the trash pile there, I use them to mark things in the dirt." They looked very uncomfortable about it. Some social taboo I'm not aware of, I think. Even when they saw me mark a bad hole that had almost wrecked my mower, they didn't look like they liked it one bit. To me it's just recycling trash to be useful, to them it seems to be some kind of disrespect or something. Not something I understand, doesn't work with my beliefs.  

They are the only ones who don't look pleased with it, even people who know about the burn pile don't approve of me taking stuff out of it. I do not understand the taboo, but it seems to be widespread here.
I doubt they'd be something I could resell locally.

The waste horrifies me. Just flat HORRIFIES me.

I don't really see that fishing graveyard flowers out of the waste for reuse is worse than any other form of 'dumpster diving'. I imagine that there is some sort of yuck factor. It's not as if you're stealing them off the graves! Any form of reuse or repurposing is good, and I found heaps of craft ideas online. I prefer household ideas since they are likely to last the longest:

Decorate curtains and other plain cloths:

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Garland

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Curtain door screen

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Magnets

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Other crafts like monograms:

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If you don't fancy having a go yourself, maybe a local youth club might like them to make projects or sell on?