How can I reuse or recycle plastic dustbins split?

Philip Mitchell Graham has quite a few comments in propose leave any item page recently so I think I should earn, me my way through his ideas!

First up:

Old plastic divided rubbish bins. I used one as a liner in an old metal trash cans. Metal storage bins lose often their floors, while the plastic, which often on pages divided. Between the two I made a perfect maintained am. I expect a few extra years of service from the two locations that had no future at all.

Great reuse Philip.

Without a metal outer are useful for storing things, which must be fairly dry but need to be dry bones. A split plastic am we have in our page doors for Kindle - it keeps it neat and at one place and not enough water makes it through the cracks to be a problem. We had another, I would probably pots and other bits and bobs - use it for my garden stuff-spare, which do not need to in the greenhouse but must be included so that you around blown have not.

Use old locations to your garden? Have recycled others to you?

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How can I reuse or recycle and tables ironing boards broken?

Philip Mitchell Graham gave us another proposal / excellent upward trend idea left:

Ironing Board. One of the major monuments of inbuilt conformity is the Joint Board. They are designed, after a few years, and the legs often, buckle if someone a break because the folding mechanism of cheap mild steel heavy load of wash placed on you.

No matter you use a little fencing wire to you in an open position lock, then use you as light work benches in the Studio or in the garden. Sure, they are easy, but many challenges require a heavy table. A few of you have you a modular banking system can reconfigure easily indeed. They are easy enough to move with one arm, which is very useful if as I, you will find yourself at a bank if you have an arm full.

I suspect our is Ironing Board us survive we so rarely (in fact) we use totally shocked it, we had one - we thought it had gone to the furniture charity shop, before we moved house to find. It feels really flimsy but so I guess if we not used more than once in the year, it would fall apart in a shot.

I like the idea of Philip's mobile Workbench. With a table cloth about it, there could be an emergency table for a party or BBQ.

Any other suggestions? If fixed wire - with garden what can tube of all use of the metal legs or the Board?

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Reduce waste after Christmas - our top tips

Again is the big day almost upon us.

Hopefully you've been busy already Upcycling random stuff in Christmas presents and is easy to go to keep the green theme Christmas it recycled Christmas decorations.

Wait until you spring clean declutter now while all the new additions are fresh in your mind.

New-new in January sales, items that do not want or do not use, or it way, the sooner someone else will get some use out of it and it could keep old items which shiny replaced by something new - type sooner you having to buy gift shop.

Take not wrapping paper way - reuse it instead. Larger pieces can be flattened and reused (children especially notice the same paper used year for year), or in reusable paper bags gift.

Smaller pieces can be used, gift tags, festive envelopes or used to renew Christmas decorations for use next year.

Shredded to protect upholstery for gifts can be particularly crumpled piece to protect in the course of the year - or tender Christmas decorations while in the store, which brings me neatly Onto…

Save carefully removed and go every year - which means less waste capable of use on landfills and reducing your need to buy new stuff.

Shredded can gift wrapping and packaging (such as polystyrene foam advanced plastic shaped and formed) new toy or gadgets, to to protect sensitive items. Wrap tinsel and strings of Christmas to avoid the lights around a kitchen roll back tube or a plastic bottle clutter. Label fields so that you can easily find you.

If you have no room for the storage, not throw away decorations - pack neatly away and offer on Freecycle Freegle.

Also keep your favorite Christmas cards on the one hand - next year in recycled decorations to recycle or gift tags may be hidden in a decorations box-. Cutting others into narrow strips as shopping lists - use on the map easier than writing paper if you are traveling. Keep large cards for crafts - if you need any thin but strong map. There are many different ways to reuse them.

If you have can see many high street shops the reuse recycling collection bins specifically for cards - usually WH Smith, Tesco and M & S - often with a donation goes from memory related to charity (such as Woodland Trust) for each am cards collected. Some also collect cards for reuse/Upcycling in gift tags charity shops and the like - ask around to see that you included in your area.

A lot of energy went into growing birds carry around and cook it-so make the best of it, by up all meat left remaining and the camp of the carcass.

Use leftover veg, soup, making stews and Commons.

Use leftover Christmas cake, fruity rum truffle making - or take it outside for birds to eat.

If don't go to get through all your Christmas cookies or mince pies, be proactive about it before you to go stale - freeze some for later use (keep the Festival spirit all go January!) or give way to someone else - you could for free treated very thankful!

What are your favorite ways to reduce waste at Christmas?

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How can I reuse or recycle parts of toys, wood?

We have an email from Sarah had r:.

Cleaning out my young toy box before Christmas, found out many pieces of wooden toys, when you were little, building blocks sorting the kind of thing blocked,. Attempts to offer either in original sets too many pieces are missing or not easy to know what with what's going on. Beautiful colors and shapes, shame on you am.

As for the "not with the know what, what is" question enlist the help of your sons;)

If the pieces of well-known, popular toys are, it might be worth offers on Freecycle Freegle or even eBay than spares - might want someone your bundle half lost or, as in the case of free building stuff, expand their supply. (Search "Spare parts" in young children's toy on eBay a lot PlayMobile/Brio/ELC Happyland things so that stuff would probably faster than generic building blocks or cheap toys go section.)

I can understand the request, before Christmas declutter but underestimate the value of the random bits and pieces for future imaginative play potential — I remember having random bits of preschool toys around, until I was at least 10, their use as assorted markers or objects, invent in different ways to fit the purpose.

The toys are likely to painted or varnished, so really burned or composted should not have been and I suspect to be safe for small, you'll be pretty clunky - may be too large for Upcycling fun fashion jewelry. She could make a cell phone or a decorative door hanger for a nursery though.

Any other suggestions reuse?

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Large reuse and recycling ideas from November

Here are some of my favorite comments first to links on the site over the past months if you missed them.

First up, at all the comments on our contribution as man in the habit of taking packed lunch - links great responses from all props: Bellen, Alice, Alexis, carol, Bobbie, Karmae, Cmdweb, Marti and "computer recycling and disposal". I wish the House I regularly leave, almost enough to justify take lunch!

Robert Campbell and rainwater of recycler's comments on our post to improve a grey water system were also very informative.

Karmae left a great proposal to post How to recycle or reuse the ends of receipt rolls - use clothes sewing patterns to expand, when the institution changes sizes.

Summer hit with the soil of plastic bottles keep underwear drawer neatly and Petra left a comment your spin on a bottle top a resealable plastic bag using explain stuff - Use balloons to make. Or you hypothesises, that it might be possible, a "vacuum" bag for fabric store seal to make.

Thoey stubs of old crayons - those used with erasers at - Mini stamps to make.

Mary Horesh added that a sixth proposal my large reused for polystyrene list-use it to fill empty space in your freezer as freezers are less efficient that are deeply (can plastic bottles with water filled for this purpose).

Alexis, I currently by representative for my spinning and weaving life will am, with an old curtain to isolate one herumliegt loft hatch suggested.

And finally bark was a reuse and a warning - sweet metal or biscuits doses make big drums for children us. Very, very loud ones.

Thanks to all proposed things over the last month - many truly inspiring ideas!

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