Archive for June, 2008
Friday, June 20th, 2008
How can I reuse or recycle IKEA allen keys?
We’ve had an email from Bree, asking:
How can I recycle/reuse the multitude of little allen wrenches I have acquired with my IKEA furniture? I have a pile of them!
It’s a shame they’re not opt-in to begin with - because we’ve got a number kicking around too - but I guess that doesn’t fit with […]
17 Comments » - Posted in household, items by louisa
Thursday, June 19th, 2008
Recycling more random things into random arty things
Lucia, of the weather balloons from last week, is another one of those fab people who makes cool things by recycling random stuff.
You can see examples of her creations at http://www.jblarts.com but I thought I’d also feature a few of my favourite things here - namely the egg box fairy light shades (above) and the […]
2 Comments » - Posted in art & crafts using recycled stuff, hobbies, household, items by louisa
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
How can I reuse or recycle can ring pulls?
A couple of weeks ago, Ann posted a comment about “Bracelets with a Conscience” that she makes out of “soda can tabs”.
She sent me a few pictures of the bracelets recently and I think a great idea.
But what else can be done with those tabs? Any suggestions?
(We covered the cans themselves back in the […]
10 Comments » - Posted in art & crafts using recycled stuff, items, packaging by louisa
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
How can I make a waterproof(ish) recycling bin from recycled stuff?
On the “how can I make a bookshelf out of recycled stuff” post a couple of weeks ago, one of our lovely regular readers Alice suggested we should do more posts that way around - how can you do/make something out by recycling or reusing old junk.
I’ve added the idea to our suggestions request page […]
7 Comments » - Posted in garden, household, reverse this by louisa
Monday, June 16th, 2008
How can I reuse or recycle cardboard-backed waffle foam?
As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I’d been over to the HQ of Ruby-on-Rails ISP BrightBox and discovered a load of computer parts packaging.
As well as the plastic trays that we featured the other week, there were a number of sheets of cardboard-backed bumpy foam - which is apparently called waffle foam but, if […]
