Archive for May, 2008
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 […]
4 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 […]
11 Comments » - Posted in household, items, packaging by louisa
Monday, May 5th, 2008
How can I reuse or recycle little tin cans?
We’ve covered the standard food size ones, but what can be done with little tin cans?
John gave a talk at the Manchester Free Software group last month and afterwards we all adjourned to a nearby pub where we found these little nuts cans on our table.
As I’d just been talking about this website to a […]
15 Comments » - Posted in household, items, packaging by louisa
Friday, May 2nd, 2008
How can I reuse or recycle washing machine drums?
We’ve had an email from Nathalie, telling us about the fab ottoman she made from an old washing machine drum (links includes full instructions). She also links to another site where one has been turned into a floor lamp - very cool.
Involving less crafts, I’ve also seen them used as planters in allotments (since […]
6 Comments » - Posted in household, items, technology by louisa
Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Recycling pop and water bottles into flowers
Not a usual “How Can I…” post but I had an email from Jan (who comments as twinks) yesterday about the flowers she makes from old plastic drinks bottles and I thought it was worth a mention.
She says:
These were among the first flowers I made from all those plastic bottles that accumulate in and around […]
