Comments on: How can I reuse or recycle lots of old twine?

By: louisa

louisa — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:31:16 +0000

I think that’s a common problem we have here – lots of reuses for little amounts of things but once you start generating more than a reusable amount, the time/need for those little projects doesn’t scale.

However, the original question asker Rachel R makes a good point about passing it on — to teachers or via gardening sales. Even if you can’t reuse it, someone else might be able to.

You can also try Freecycle/Freegle – people with more time to crochet or whatever would come and collect it from you/the stables at your convenience. And if you know someone with an allotment, they might be willing to take it – to use themselves and pass around to other allotmenters.

And don’t forget that natural fibre twine can be composted.

By: Eileen Walton

Eileen Walton — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:41:55 +0000

All the above ideas are very novel and creative. But if you’ve got only a couple of horses you acquire masses of the stuff from both hay and straw bales. Surely there must be someone who collects it for recycling. Putting it bin the bin seems such a waste.

Also if you’ve got horses you’re hardly likely to have the tome for crocheting etc.

Any ideas anyone.

By: Medeea

Medeea — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 12:00:37 +0000

Rustic decoration: tie around some candles, or bind together small twigs, tie bags, wrap boxes in it…
Use it as strings for cloth bags.
Or donate to a gardener, even a greenhouse to tie plants with it.

By: Medeea

Medeea — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 11:55:54 +0000

The natural one stains.

By: Lacey

Lacey — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 18:44:16 +0000

Bridon Cordage is a twine manufacturer that offers Revolver. Revolver is their own twine that is made out of 100% recycled twine, and reused by farmers and ranchers. What they do is gather used twine, melt it, and reform it into twine that can be used over again. There are several drop sights in the U.S. for collecting used twine. For more info go to http://www.progressivedairy.com and read the article “The Second Time Around”, or get on Bridon’s website at http://www.bridoncordage.com. another article is called “Twine Becomes Twine In Recycling Effort’ ON http://WWW.HAYANDFORAGE.COM

By: lennyb

lennyb — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:29:49 +0000

try making a rope machine and twist that twine into useful rope.
heres a link to one i made for instructables .com.

http://www.instructables.com/id/Reuse-old-printer-ribbons-and-video-tape-to-make-r/

By: Kacy

Kacy — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:11:54 +0000

The Girl Scouts (at least here in the US) use the twine as clothes lines while camping. You could also make clothes lines out of them or donate them to the scouts.

By: BeckyO

BeckyO — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:27:35 +0000

Use your low-temp glue gun and wrap a box in it. You can even dye some of it to make a pattern. It makes those cheap cardboard storage boxes look a little better.

By: Gulia

Gulia — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:13:48 +0000

Tie gifts with twine.

By: Jen

Jen — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 22:55:02 +0000

there is so much home decor to be made with twine. if you’re not much of a crocheter, try to get into hemp jewelry making. its easy, fast ,and you can make tons of stuff like pot holders for plants, necklaces, door mats, and bags

By: Sandi

Sandi — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 16:30:22 +0000

You could make great shopping bags by crocheting with it!

By: paperlady

paperlady — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 01:22:27 +0000

I have used the plastic twine to crochet “scrubbies” for the kitchen, like those plastic ones you use to scrub dishes.

By: Bobbie

Bobbie — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:15:20 +0000

I’d put it into bundles, then make a sign saying “Free Twine” and put it by the curb and see if anyone takes it (I’ll bet they do :)

By: Rosalind

Rosalind — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:48:26 +0000

I have a farmer friend and am always scavenging baler twine from her. Very useful in the garden (although a bit of a lurid colour!) and also I use it to make big bundles of twiggy branches to store in the woodshed to dry. (Then I have a supply of dry kindling on wet days.)

It might make good string bags – depends on the texture. The twine I get is the plastic thick stuff which doesn’t have much of a twist in it.

By: fuchsoid

fuchsoid — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:53:24 +0000

Perhaps it could be crocheted or knitted up into little rugs or doormats.