Turned a glass jar into a pencil holder- taken by peachpurple
Everyday, there are tons of waste, trash and
unwanted things that humans discard them into
the bin without even thinking twice.
Before you throw away anything after used or
consumed, maybe you should pause and check
whether these items are reusable or recyclable
not now, but later.
There are many items tossed in the garbage are
still reusable and recyclable into new items
whereby one can save money and time.
Fastfood restaurant paper bags, plastic containers
, paper cups with lids are reusable for picnic trips
and packed school lunch.
You can also recycle these fastfood emptied items
into pencil holders, coin holders, hand puppets,
handmade crafts for kids, decorative items at
home.
Remember that everytime you ordered or buy
take-away food, groceries or
office items, do not discard them immediately.
Wash, clean the dirty items, keep them into a
plastic bag.
You will find these things you have in hand are
useful when you need them urgently.
l Reuse these bags for your kids packed lunch,
office packed lunch, picnic trips
l Reuse these bags for keeping notes, excess
bookmarks, medical charts, expired credit cards
or driving license, namecards, receipts.
l Recycle these bags into handmade crafts such
as toys for your kids, handmade puppets, creative
items on the desk.
l Mayonnaise, spice paste bottle glass jars are
reusable for storing dry or wet ingredients.
l You can keep homemade jams, honey, dry
spices, curry powders into glass jars.
l Remove the old labels, replace with new
handwritten labels to indicate the ingredient’s
name
l Keep glass jars in the fridge or safe place
where children could not reach them.
l Keep loose coffee powder in glass jars because
it helps to retain the aromatic smell and flavor.
l Make sure the bags are clean and dry.
l Keep these plastic bags for your next shopping
trip
l Reuse them for wastepaper basket, garbage
bin, trash bin
l Reuse them for wrapping up old cooking pots
and pans
l Reuse them for keeping old books, magazines
into the store room
Old desk calendar pictures are useful for making
bookmarks, greeting cards, scrapbooks, school
art projects.
Cut the calendars ( paper type ) into notes.
Useful when you need to jot down notes when
answering a phone call.
l Worn out plastic buckets are ideal for wet
kitchen disposal for wet wastage ( leftover meals
to discard, bones,etc)
l Ideal for planting vegetables or flowers.
Give the bucket a new spray of color or decorate it
with bottle caps.
l Make a good cabinet to store pots, pans,
seasoning, dry items in the wet kitchen
l Turn old book shelves ( pigeon hole) into dry
kitchen storage where you can store dry
ingredients or items for convenience.
l Daily beverages ( coffee, tea, milk powder,
sugar)
l Place the old book shelves into the store room.
Stack up old items to save place.
l Reuse plastic bottles ( big or small ) into covers.
l Cut cooking oil plastic bottle (big-5kg)
into halves.
Use the top bottle to cover your cutlery.
Helps to avoid geckos or cockroaches from
lingering on them at night.
l Cut water plastic bottles ( small ) into halves.
Hover over the padlock outside the gate against
the rain.
Padlock rust easily under acid rain water.
l Store light soy sauce, dark sauce, fish sauce
into plastic bottles.
I always pour out 1/4 of the content into another
bottle so that I don’t have to keep using the
original bottle.
It will leave a harden stain on the mouth of the
bottle if you keep using the sauces.
l Reusable water bottle for kids at school and
adults at work.
Save money, need not to buy new water bottle.
l Wash the tin cans and dry thoroughly under the
hot sun.
l Wrap the outer tin can with old gift wrapper or
fabric.
l Glue a round fabric inside , the base of the tin.
l You can turn the tin can into a pencil holder,
straw holder, stationary holder or coin holder
l Tin cans also make a wonderful place to keep
sachets of seasoning such as black pepper, salt,
chilli flakes, sugar that I brought back from fast
food restaurant or take-aways.
l You can also poke small holes at the bottom of
the tin cans.
l Turn these tin cans into your tiny garden,
planting vegetable waste such as cabbage,
carrots, spinach, pumpkin seeds or garlic.
l My dad used to turn this tin cans into his
ashtray because he smoked in the past.
l Make sure that the sharp edges around the
mouth of the tin cans are blunt by using a
pincher to pinch down the edges.
l Then use masking tape to seal up the edges.
l Alternatively, use only those tin cans that you
can purge open the lid without using a can
opener.
Do you have any ideas what items that are
reusable?
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I have far too many bottles plastic and glass. I use some and the rest are just disposed of.
I used to recycle magazines and newspapers and created them into paper beads. However, I don't have ample time to do some of my hobbies due to time constraints. These hobbies are reserved and pick up the pieces in the future. Thus, I don't have to worry on having idle time in the future.
Some of my friends had also recycled their empty jars and created some craft out of it. In this little ways, we can be able to save our mother earth.
Number 4! Genius! I never thought to do that with old calendars. What a good idea! :)
These are all great ideas. Tins, jars, plastic bottles etc can be used in a myriad of ways.
Great Ideas. Things at home are probably of many used, only if we know how to utilized them. Aside from those that is being discussed, I want to include the following things:
BUTTONS. If you have only two attractive buttons, make them into a pair of earrings. If you have four attractive buttons, make them into a pair of cufflinks, chain-stitching a cord between each pair.
CALENDAR PICTURES. Enamel shabby wastebaskets and paste on calendar pictures for new decor. (Scenic ads and posters can also he used.) Shellac over the pictures for longer wearing and washability.
CANDLE STUBS. For corking bottles when you've lost the cork, soften a candle stub so that it fits the neck of the bottle. Candle stubs also make excellent fire starters. Candle stubs can be saved and melted together and made into new candles, using old bottles or milk cartons as molds. Also, candle stubs can be melted and poured directly onto paint in a half-used can of paint so that the paint will remain airtight and soft.
CAN KEYS. Save an occasional key from coffee or sardine cans, as you're bound, sooner or later, to come across one that has no key. Can keys also provide an economical way to use toothpaste, winding from the bottom of the tube!