Archive for August, 2006
Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006
How can I reuse or recycle … pump action sprays?
I realise yesterday’s post on aerosols would be mostly recycling rather than reuse, but how about a similar item that has more reuse potential - pump action sprays?
We’ve got a number of old pump action spray bottles around the house - from old cleaning products and from a body spray that I use from time […]
10 Comments » - Posted in bathroom, household, items, kitchen, packaging by louisa
Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006
How can I reuse or recycle … aerosols?
I suspect this is going to be more of recycle one than a reuse one - but if I’m wrong, suggestions on both are most welcome.
Since we’re not big consumers of aerosol-driven personal hygiene/hair products, we don’t have that many of them - the ones we do have are from specific cleaning products (namely, at […]
4 Comments » - Posted in bathroom, hobbies, household, items by louisa
Monday, August 21st, 2006
How can I reuse or recycle … old jeans?
I’ve got a pair of jeans that I’ve had for years.
They were one of those ‘best friend’ pairs of jeans that I lived in for a couple of years until they started to give away at critical areas (read: the bum and that vague, important area).
Then they got relegated to decorating pants since I wasn’t […]
20 Comments » - Posted in clothes and fabric, items by louisa
Friday, August 18th, 2006
How can I reuse or recycle … 35mm film canisters?
I know digital cameras are usurping their existence now but we’ve still got a large number of these little pots lying around the house.
I also vaguely remember that these little items were subjected to months of discussion on the Guardian letters page a year or so ago - but I can’t remember any of the […]
39 Comments » - Posted in hobbies, household, items by louisa
Thursday, August 17th, 2006
How can I reuse or recycle … old house keys?
I’ve had an email from Jory, asking for suggestion about what to do with “a ton of old house keys”.
We’ve got a number floating around too - not just house keys but old bike lock keys and other misc keys that are probably for something really important we just don’t know what.
So any ideas?
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