Archive for May, 2008
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
How can I reuse or recycle old bread machine pans?
We’ve had an email from Chris, saying:
I searched the archives, but didn’t find any mention of what to do with breadmaker pans. Mine had the teflon coating peeling off, so I got a new one. I am looking into where to find a scrap metal place, but any other suggestions would be appreciated…
As […]
3 Comments » - Posted in household, items, technology by louisa
Monday, May 19th, 2008
How can I reuse or recycle fibreglass?
We’ve had an email from Kate about a pretty specific thing but the bigger question might be more generally useful:
Can anyone tell me if you can recycle fibre glass? Have 20 fibreglass units used to house the scoring screens in a tenpin bowling centre. Units are old and not resellable but would like to get […]
1 Comment » - Posted in items, technology by louisa
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 […]
6 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 […]
