Archive for January, 2008
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
How can I reuse or recycle sardine tins?
We’ve had an email from Carla, saying:
I’ve recently developed an obsession with sardines and my green bin is now full of cans! Is there anything I can do with them?
We’ve already covered standard food cans but most of the ideas take advantage of those cans’ cylindrical nature and height.
The shallow nature of sardine cans […]
4 Comments » - Posted in household, items, packaging by louisa
Monday, January 28th, 2008
How can I reuse or recycle a dead laptop?
My beloved laptop died last week. It’s actually been dying for about a year but my patience/unwillingness to buy a new one combined with a few last ditch life-extending efforts by John meant it only shuffled off the.. electro-magnetic coil last week.
John bought it five years ago for work and (ab)used it for a […]
9 Comments » - Posted in items, office, technology by louisa
Friday, January 25th, 2008
How can I reuse or recycle old cake?
We’ve had an email from Suzanne, asking:
What do you do with dry cake that you can’t stand to throw out? Trifle? Or rebake by slicing in pan and covering with a lemon something or other?
My first thought was “old cake? there is no such thing! there is cake and eaten cake!” but as much of […]
10 Comments » - Posted in food and the like, items by louisa
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
How can I reuse or recycle very brown bananas?
Following on from the soggy apples earlier in the month, I have some VERY brown bananas sat on my kitchen counter at the moment.
I bought them a few weeks ago to make a loaf of banana bread for my friend’s birthday but they were under-ripe when I bought them and my banana bread always works […]
13 Comments » - Posted in food and the like, items by louisa
Monday, January 21st, 2008
How can I reuse or recycle old snowboards?
We’ve had an email from Mark:
I found your site from Google after getting fed up with old snowboarding gear I have that has no snowboarding use left but could be used for other things. Searching your site I found a use for old plastic bindings, that someone said they could use for a project.
How […]
