Archive for August, 2006
Thursday, August 31st, 2006
How can I reuse or recycle … printer cartridges?
I suspect this is another recycle rather than reuse thing but again, I’m not sure how to go about recycling them.
Until recently, we didn’t have a printer at home and when I was at work, there was a helpful box in reception or the photocopying room that mystically took away my old ink/toner cartridges and […]
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Wednesday, August 30th, 2006
How can I reuse or recycle … broken pencils?
Aside from formal social functions, frogs and the general state of the world, I don’t get stressed out by many things these days. My work is pretty enjoyable and if my colleagues (the cats) annoy me, I can just stroke them to calm me back down again.
But one thing that still manages to really […]
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Tuesday, August 29th, 2006
How can I reuse or recycle … breakfast cereal boxes?
John and I are 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 (him).
Most of our favourite cereals come in bags within boxes so we’re left with a lot of rubbish at the end of each pack.
When I was small, […]
10 Comments » - Posted in food and the like, items, kitchen, packaging by louisa
Friday, August 25th, 2006
How can I reuse or recycle … plastic drinking straws?
John has an new liquid obsession - coconut flavoured soya milk - but we can only find it in little single-serving drinking cartons.
While he looks cute supping down on his carton, we’re left with quite a bit of rubbish at the end of it.
We’ve already posted an article for the tetrapak cartons but what about […]
12 Comments » - Posted in household, items, kitchen by louisa
Thursday, August 24th, 2006
How can I use up … old eggs?
Sometimes our little box of eggs gets lost at the back of the fridge and we forget it’s there until we fancy omelettes for tea and then we find out that they’ve gone out of date. Sigh.
I know eggs are best used as fresh as possible - and it’s not ideal to keep them […]
