Archive for May, 2008
Friday, May 16th, 2008
How can I reuse or recycle pen lids?
We’ve had another email from our wonderfully suggestive friend [Am]:
Due to a slow day at work on Friday I killed time by tidying out my drawers which seem to be black holes for all sorts for junk. What I discovered were about two dozen biro lids. After saving about nine for the numerous […]
2 Comments » - Posted in household, items, office by louisa
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
How can I reuse or recycle broken office/desk chairs?
We’ve had an email from Victoria:
Just found your site and love it. Anyway, I saw your story on broken chairs and it reminded me how my company always throws out office chairs instead of fixing them when something breaks - so annoying! I know it’s probably a health and safety thing but it […]
3 Comments » - Posted in items, office by louisa
Monday, May 12th, 2008
How can I reuse or recycle birth control boxes?
We had an email from Tamara last month that got buried in my inbox but I found it again so here it is:
I wanted suggestions on how to recycle pill boxes… like the kind you get with birth control.
I thought I could use one as a wallet, but you see, twelve a year for an […]
13 Comments » - Posted in bathroom, items, packaging by louisa
Friday, May 9th, 2008
How can I reuse or recycle little plastic trays (dummy drives)?
A few weeks ago I was at the HQ of BrightBox, a Ruby-on-Rails hosting company/ISP, and they’d just taken delivery of a huge new computer server thing (apologies for getting overly technical there).
Anyway, all the hard discs for it (and there were loads) were packaged up separately so there was a mountain of packaging by […]
3 Comments » - Posted in items, office, packaging, technology by louisa
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
How can I reuse or recycle cardboard beverage holders?
The other week when I was trying to find a picture to illustrate the cardboard cup sleeve post, all I could find were these beverage holders. Just everywhere.
Then the next day, I went downstairs and there was one on the sofa. I nearly jumped out of my skin: my internet history had become […]
