Archive for November, 2008
Friday, November 28th, 2008
How can I reuse or recycle plastic coffee bags?
We buy all our tea and coffee from Just Coffee People. Contrary to one interpretation of their name, they don’t just sell coffee - they sell tea (black and herbal), sugar and hot chocolate/cocoa - and it is all AWESOME. The Tanzanian tea is the best we’ve ever tasted - it’s spoilt us […]
8 Comments » - Posted in household, items, kitchen, packaging by louisa
Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
How can I reuse or recycle large pieces of cork?
We’ve had an email from Tony asking about recycling cork - but NOT wine bottle corks (which we covered back in the day):
I am looking at ways that cork (in slabs not wine bottles unfortunately) can be recycled.
Given his email address, I suspect he’ll be particularly interested in large-scale industrial recycling ideas not crafty reuses […]
5 Comments » - Posted in garden, household, items by louisa
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
How can I make a bread bin using recycled things?
We’ve had another email from Louise, this time on a “reverse this” type thing?
Hello it’s Louise again (ice-cream containers).
I’d like to make a breadbin using recycled material. I’ve thought about decorating an empty, clean paint container, but I’m not sure it would be hygienic. Any ideas?
I also wanted to tell you that I love your […]
8 Comments » - Posted in household, kitchen, reverse this by louisa
Monday, November 24th, 2008
How can I reuse or recycle a load of old school textbooks?
We’ve had an email from Peri, asking:
I have many old school textbooks that i don’t need any more. how do i recycle them cheaply?
Peri doesn’t give any more information about how many is “many” or how old is “old” but I imagine it’ll be more than would be accepted in the standard waste system and […]
12 Comments » - Posted in items, paper & stationery by louisa
Friday, November 21st, 2008
How can I reuse or recycle overhead projector transparencies?
Finally on this week’s Recycle This stationery theme, we’ve got this question from Nicole:
Now all my college’s lecture rooms FINALLY let you use powerpoint, I can get rid of all the OHP lecture notes I’ve created over the years. What can I do with them?
According to Wikipedia, most transparencies are sheets of cellulose acetate. […]
