Wed 12 Jul 2006
Another suggestion from Em:
Thanks for the light bulb ideas – really great.
Here’s one that I have been considering for a while……how to reuse/recycle those spongy washing up scourer pad thingies. They are the ones that come in different colours of spongy rectangles with a scoury bit on the top layer. We use ours until they are really dead - any suggestions?
Cheers, Em
We use them until they’re dead too and I worry about reusing them if they’re food gacky - but any suggestions anyway, particularly if the gack level is low?
(Oh, and I’ve also had an email from a chap called Antony who wants to find a company that makes cardboard boxes from recycled cardboard - if anyone has any ideas, leave a comment below or email me and I’ll forward along the message)





Rosie
July 14th, 2006 at 10:39 pm
Along the food gakky thing… put in a microwave for about 2 minutes and that will stearalise them. i do this with dishcloths.. not if they in need of a wash but just after i have used and rinsed and wrung out.
Rosie
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anykey
July 15th, 2006 at 9:00 pm
My used jcloths go in the washing machine to freshen them up.
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Emanla Eraton
August 15th, 2006 at 11:36 pm
If they are still absorbent, use them to mop up small spills around the house.
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Emanla Eraton
September 1st, 2006 at 1:31 am
Maybe you could microwave them at 5 minutes when they’re soaked with water. The water will boil in the sponge, taking out smells and some stains also.
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Amanda Kerik
December 30th, 2006 at 9:33 pm
I used these about a year ago to do some hardcore cleaning of walls - TSP solution and the scrubby side cleaned the 10+ years of gunk that the old house owner had left behind.
The plastic does wear out after a while.
The sponge would be used to help drainage in pots.
These clean up very well in normal household wash.
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