How can I reuse or recycle breakfast cereal boxes?
John and I are breakfast cereal-fanatics at the moment and are munching our way through box after box of pre-sweetened, chocolate-flavour flavoured puffed nonsense (me) and dull, wholewheat goodness...
View ArticleHow can I reuse or recycle … jewellery boxes?
On a shelf in our bedroom, I have a little collection of jewellery boxes. My jewellery tends to be on the cheap (and/or home-made) kind but every now and then, I get something in a box – either a...
View ArticleHow can I reuse or recycle VHS video tapes?
I’ve always been a film fanatic and amassed quite a collection of videos over the years until DVDs came along. Most of my pre-recorded ones were given away and the ones we recorded ourselves went to...
View ArticleHow can I reuse or recycle … French presses/cafetières/coffee plungers?
We’ve had an email from Jesse with a suggestion: I use a French Press for making coffee in the morning, but I’ve gone through them in the past because they eventually crack. Well, my most recent one...
View ArticleHow can I reuse or recycle plastic recycling boxes?
We’ve had another suggestion from the wonderful Am (Delusion), and it’s a bit of a meta one: As our council have changed our curbside collection from collection boxes for paper & bottles etc to now...
View ArticleFive fantastic reuses for plastic milk bottles
With their semi-rigid sides & strong handle, plastic milk bottles are very easily reusable – which is useful since there are bajillions generated every day. We’ve had loads of great suggestions...
View ArticleHow can I reuse or recycle a LOT of pinback buttons/badges?
(Ooops, sorry for the absence – I was busy then ill because I’d been busy and also ill because I ate some tasted-fine-but-actually-bad out of date sausages. Yes.) Right then, Nicole has been in touch...
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