Archive for June, 2006
Friday, June 30th, 2006
How can I reuse or recycle … pizza boxes?
It’s Friday and it’s been a busy week at Recycle This Mansions so we are, I very much suspect, going to be dialling in for food tonight.
We’re lucky that we’ve got a few good pizza places in the vicinity so will be on cheese-highs by bedtime (weee, cheese dreams!) but we’ll wake up remorseful tomorrow, […]
8 Comments » - Posted in food and the like, items, kitchen, packaging by louisa
Thursday, June 29th, 2006
How can I reuse or recycle … mascara wands?
Little brushes on sticks.
Oh you look so useful with your littleness and your brushiness.
But how? How? How can I use you again?
(Photo by Vixs)
7 Comments » - Posted in bathroom, items by louisa
Wednesday, June 28th, 2006
How can I reuse or recycle … old mouse mats?
They seem to be one of those things that we used to absentmindedly collect, back in the day when everyone thought it was a great idea to give away promotional mousemats or that it was *the* cheap and cheerful present to buy anyone who ever admitted to using a computer.
Given our hoarding nature, we still […]
14 Comments » - Posted in household, items, office by louisa
Tuesday, June 27th, 2006
How can I reuse or recycle … cotton bobbins?
Many moons ago, I met the man who had the idea to make cotton bobbins out of plastic rather than wood (since the latter had friction problems apparently). He was quite a wealthy guy by the time I met him so I guess he made some money from the brainwave. But, of course, […]
7 Comments » - Posted in household, items by louisa
Monday, June 26th, 2006
How can I reuse or recycle … sandwich packaging?
A suggestion from Heather:
I’m so bad. Every day, I buy those prepacked sandwiches rather than making my own. Sometimes I go to Pret and buy cardboard and cellophane wrapped ones, and sometimes I go to the yummy bakery up the road and get them just wrapped in cellophone but most of the time, […]
