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Recycled Christmas decorations – our favourite ideas
Wondering how to make your festive season that bit greener by making recycled Christmas decorations? There are lots of ways to make them reusing waste paper, scrap fabric, or random other things from...
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How can I reuse or recycle plastic Smint boxes?
We’ve had an email from (not my) John: What can be done with Smint boxes? Anything? Smint packets are sealed plastic dispensers, which according to the Smint website can’t be opened and refilled to...
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Reducing waste after Christmas – our top tips
So the big day is nearly upon us again. Hopefully you’ve already been busy upcycling random stuff into Christmas presents and recycled Christmas decorations – it’s easy to keep the green theme going...
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Last minute Recycling at Christmas links
Since sharing my favourite upcycled Christmas present ideas and recycled Christmas decoration suggestions, I’ve spotted another few awesome things that I thought I should mention in case you’ve got a...
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How can I reuse or recycle Strepsils “handy tubes”?
Hey team. Apologies for the lack of a post on Friday – I was ill with my second cold of 2011 (which, given it was only the 7th of Jan, I thought was pretty good/bad going. I’m in the constant coughing...
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How can I reuse or recycle lemon juice (Jif) plastic lemons?
For some reason, our local supermarket has stopped selling lemon juice in sensible containers and only sells it in plastic lemon-shaped bottles now. (Not actually Jif lemons but similar, with a flat...
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How can I reuse or recycle bleach bottles?
Inspired by clearing out of bathroom cupboards this morning, I thought we’d have a cleaning themed week here on Recycle This. We’ve covered various cleaning related things in the past – pump action...
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How can I reuse or recycle zip lock coffee bean bags?
I had one of those “it’s amazing how things mount up” moments the other day when I opened our tea & coffee cupboard and was confronted with this: They’re all empty, flattened out version of these:...
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How can I reuse or recycle Keurig coffee K-cups?
From one coffee-related post to another. We’ve had an email from Rose about “K-cups”: I love drinking the various flavors of Keurig coffee, but hate wasting the cups since they can’t be recycled I need...
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How can I reduce my use of single serving milk pots?
We’ve had an email from Leann: I have to travel a lot to work and in a day can easily get through a dozen single serving milk pots – on the train, at meetings, at hotels etc. I’m not interested in...
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How can I reuse or recycle pretty glass spice jars?
We’ve had an email from Dianne: I found a box full of used glass spice jars at a car boot sale recently and had bought it before I knew it. They’re those narrow round ones with plastic lids. I’ve...
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How can I reuse or recycle a (Clorox) wipe dispensing container?
We’ve had an email from Cassondra asking: How can I reuse/recycle clorox wipes containers? I hadn’t heard of Clorox wipes but my friend Google tells me they’re the same type of dispensing containers...
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Composting teabags
Over on the Really Good Life the other day, I listed all the consumables I used in one day and their packaging. I think it’s easy to become blind to things you routinely use and listing them helped me...
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How can I reuse or recycle plastic cat biscuit bags (like Purina)?
Shar left us a message on our “Suggest An Item” page: I have increasing numbers of empty Purina one cat food bags. Because they are plastic foil they are not accepted by my local council for recycling....
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How can I reuse or recycle little pudding pots?
We’ve had an email from Debbie: Any ideas what we can do with individual microwave pudding pots from the supermarket? They’re plastic. First up, as always, reduce if you can – I know those puddings are...
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How can I reuse or recycle Ariel Gel Dosing Devices?
Granny Cain emailed about Ariel Gel Dosing Devices: Enough!! I now have enough dosing devices for each child in a classroom…. but what to do with them? Tried poking a hole through the side, adding...
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How can I reuse or recycle big plastic (animal/bird) feed bags?
Over on the Suggest an Item page, Emily asked: Would anybody have any ideas for reusing the bags that stock feed comes in? They are some sort of plastic and not recycleable. Funnily enough, I had this...
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How can I reuse or recycle plastic shipping/mailing bags?
Kayci has emailed: First off, I absolutely love your website and all the nifty and creative ideas your community finds. Now for a confession: I am a bookworm. I typically go through 100+ novels a year...
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How can I reuse or recycle personalised wedding favour boxes?
We’ve had an email from Rosey: We just got married (yay!) and while we tried to keep the waste to a minimum, we have ended up with about 100 personalised wedding cake boxes leftover. Not sure how that...
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How can I reuse/recycle foil bag linings to make a solar cooker or the like?
We’ve had an email from long-time commenter Melinda: I’ve recently been struck with the foil linings of snack bags, and even dog food bags. Has anyone used these to create something solar, such as a...
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How can I make sure a spray bottle is really clean before reusing it?
We’ve had lots of suggestions over the years on how to reuse spray bottles from commercial cleaning products and the like but Nancy has just emailed a related question: First I want to comment that...
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How can I reuse or recycle Stax potato chip cans?
Tammy Gary has asked: Would love ideas to reuse the Stax potato chip cans. We don’t have Stax over here in the UK but my friend Google tells me they’re like Pringles, but packed in a plastic tube...
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We’ve had an email from Jeroen: We designed a lid for the Bonne Maman crême brulée cup that we usually through away. Here you can see a short movie about it: While I’ll admit the lid is very cute and...
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Upcycling ideas: bows & flowers & tins & umbrellas & everything
It’s been a while since I’ve done a “links round-up” post about some of the things that I’ve been emailed or spotted around the greater internet recently so … here goes! With the major gift giving...
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What can I reuse or recycle to make soap moulds?
I made my first batch of cold-process soap earlier in the year – it took FOREVER to trace, but we’ve loved the resulting soap so I need to make some more. Ever since I made that first batch, I’ve been...
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How can I reuse roller adhesive refill packs (like Stampin Up snail adhesive)?
We’ve had an email from Carmel: Hello, I’m a paper crafter and was a Stampin Up demonstrator and use the Stampin Up snail adhesives or the tombow roller adhesives. Anyhow, to refill these things you...
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How can I reuse or recycle margarine tub lids/cream cheese tub lids?
Whitney has emailed us, asking about margarine tub lids: i’m trying to do my part and make sure that i recycle everything that i can, or at least find a way to reuse it. i recycle my #5 containers of...
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What food packaging & other household waste do you use for starting seeds?
It’s seed-starting time here in the northern hemisphere and my Twitter feed is full of exciting stories about what fruit & veg people are going to be growing this year. I’ve added half a dozen more...
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How can I reuse or recycle the nets you get around wine bottles?
Long time Recycle This friend (and very frequent commenter!) Anna has a question about the protective sleeves slipped around wine bottles: Any ideas what to do with the plastic nets they put for wine...
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How can I reuse or recycle large (catering size) food cans?
Sam has emailed asking about large food cans: I have a number of large metal food cans, some zinc lined, which are called #10 size. They hold about 5 or 6 lbs (just under 3kg) of beans, or other foods....
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