Archive for January, 2007
Monday, January 8th, 2007
How can I reuse or recycle … bits of old soap?
Had an email from Chris Slowe about soap:
It’s unwieldy at the best of times but when you get near the end of a bar of soap it starts falling to pieces and is practically unusable. Even worse a friend of our bought us a cake made out of soap! It’s finally being used for its […]
25 Comments » - Posted in bathroom, household, items by louisa
Friday, January 5th, 2007
How can I reuse or recycle … dried branches of rosemary?
John’s Grandma grows all sorts of fruits and vegetables in her garden and has a number of huge herb plants and a few weeks ago, John came home from there with a number of branches hacked off from one of the rosemary bushes.
The branches had actually been cut off for someone else to replant in […]
10 Comments » - Posted in food and the like, garden, items by louisa
Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007
How can I reuse or recycle … moulded polystyrene?
Kate’s other suggestion was moulded polystyrene packaging because while we’ve covered loose polystyrene peanuts and sheets of foam, we haven’t mentioned those nasty squeaky environmental nightmares yet.
Any ideas for moulded polystyrene that supports electrical stuff in transit? I can’t believe manufacturers aren’t forced to collect it, chibble it up and remould it into something else. […]
28 Comments » - Posted in items, packaging by louisa
Monday, January 1st, 2007
How can I reuse or recycle … plastic tie things?
Had an email last week from Kate Spencer. She had lots of good ideas for ways we can develop the sites (thanks Kate!) and a couple of suggestions so here’s the first:
I’m busy tidying up after Christmas, and because I have a 3 year old I have lots of those annoying plastic ties that […]
