Archive for December, 2007
Friday, December 21st, 2007
How can I reuse or recycle … yoghurt pots?
I do astound myself sometimes: we’ve featured over 300 items on the site so far, from the common place to the less common and the downright weird, but we’ve not yet covered yogurt pots.
Perhaps it’s because I don’t eat the stuff (it’s too closely connected with fruit in my mind and fruit = ick) or […]
15 Comments » - Posted in household, items, kitchen, packaging by louisa
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007
How can I reuse or recycle … foam swimming floats?
I’ve recently started going swimming at my local pool and every time I go (three times a week at the moment - yay previously incredibly unfit me!), I see old polyethylene (?) floats waiting in the bin to be thrown away.
The pool is pretty much constantly used to for children’s swimming lessons so they must […]
13 Comments » - Posted in hobbies, items, sports by louisa
Monday, December 17th, 2007
How can I reuse or recycle … car bumpers?
We’ve had an email from “Kinjo Jan”, saying:
hello good people, i am new in recycling. would you please tell me if the plastic in the modern cars’ bumpers is recycleable?
That’s a very good question - but I don’t know the answer. I suspect it’s usually fibreglass more than plastic though but may very well […]
2 Comments » - Posted in items, technology by louisa
Friday, December 14th, 2007
How can I reuse or recycle … vegetable shortening?
We’ve had an email from Barb, asking:
Hi, I have about two pounds of vegetable shortening I bought last year and didn’t use up that is out of date now and a tad rancid. Does anyone know how this can be reused or recycled? It has been sitting on the kitchen counter for days while I […]
2 Comments » - Posted in food and the like, household, items by louisa
Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
How can I reuse or recycle … office desk supplies?
We’ve had an email from Angela, asking:
I currently work for a company of a little over 200 individuals. I have recently noticed how much money we spend and general waste we generate from our desk supplies alone. Unfortunately we don’t have a lot of room to store items such as metal and plastic desk top […]
