Reuse Your Waste
How to reuse your waste
Save items such as rubber bands, string and gift wrap to use again.
- Use the other side of paper which may have been thrown away for notes, shopping lists, etc.
- Glass jars, plastic tubs, etc. can be reused for storing food, screws, nails and pencils, or for growing seedlings.
- If you have taken a plastic carrier bag reuse it next time you go shopping or alternatively use it as a bin liner.
- Cereal boxes, plastic milk containers, fabric, etc. can be used by children to make models and collages.
- Envelopes can be reused, with sticky labels to cover the old address.
- Take-a-way aluminium foil trays can be washed out and reused when cooking.
- If you have unwanted clothes, furniture, household appliances, toys, bric-a-brac, books, etc. either pass them to friends or relatives or pass them on to charities, jumble sales or second hand shops. Alternatively advertise unwanted items in the local paper, take them to a car boot sale or hold a garage sale at home.
- Instead of using disposable nappies consider buying towelling nappies or using a nappy laundering service.
- Offer unwanted magazines and toys to your local doctors surgery or hospital to use in their waiting rooms.
- Try to think of alternative uses for the items that you were going to throw away. For example an old wheelbarrow, sink or chimney pot could be transformed into an attractive garden ornament.
- Consider whether old or broken items actually need to be thrown away. Could they be repaired or used for something else?
Last Updated - Friday, 21 December 2007
