Archive for August, 2007
Wednesday, August 8th, 2007
How can I reuse or recycle … asthma inhalers?
We’ve had another email from Am (who comments as Delusion), this time saying:
My partner is asthmatic and so goes through inhalers. It seems a waste to throw them out, I don’t think there is much to be done with reusing them though I may be wrong.
Does anyone know of anywhere these could be returned […]
7 Comments » - Posted in household, items, packaging by louisa
Monday, August 6th, 2007
How can I reuse or recycle … mugs with broken handles?
As I mentioned before when talking about broken crockery in general, we have a very hard, very cold stone floor in the kitchen. Things tend to smash, or at least break, when we drop them.
In addition to that general broken crockery thing, I thought broken mugs, particularly handle-less mugs, deserved their own post. […]
13 Comments » - Posted in household, items, kitchen by louisa
Friday, August 3rd, 2007
How can I reuse or recycle … scraps of fabric?
Proof that great minds think alike. An email from Lisa Chown:
We are a manufacturer of knitted acrylic accessories and end up having loads of waste fabric, from the shaping of our products, is there a way that this can be recycled rather than send it to the landfill?
And another one the next day from […]
20 Comments » - Posted in clothes and fabric, household, items by louisa
Wednesday, August 1st, 2007
How can I reuse or recycle … undrinkable red wine?
An email from Leah:
We recently did a buy five bottles get a sixth free thing at our local supermarket but two out of the four reds we’ve opened so far have been awful, undrinkable because they’re so tart and vinegary.
We’re dubious about the other two bottles now but don’t want to waste them - or […]
