In the Home
Find ideas for reducing household waste through clever storage solutions, upcycling projects, and practical tips for everyday items throughout your home.
Alternative Uses for Old Records, CDs and Tapes
CDs, tapes and records take up a lot of space and they sometimes get damaged. For those having a house clearout, for example moving home or spring cleaning,...
Alternatives to Disposable Nappies: How Green Are They?
According to WRAP, the government’s waste action group, disposable nappies make up to 2.6% of the average household waste in the UK. Of all the disposable...
An Introduction to Repairing Household Items to Avoid Waste
Sometimes when household items break, we automatically throw them away and buy a new one. Often, there is life left in them and they just need repairing or s...
Clean Your Home with Ingredients From Your Kitchen
The chemicals used in most manufactured cleaning products can cause some serious damage to the environment. The chemicals can pollute water and take many yea...
Going Green: Reusable Sanitary Protection
For the vast majority of women, sanitary protection is a monthly necessity. Whether it comes in the form of tampons or sanitary towels, sanitary protection i...
Great Ways to Reuse Greetings Cards
Throughout the year, most of us probably receive a significant number of greetings cards thanks to Christmas, birthdays, anniversaries, Valentine’s and mor...
'Green' Money Saving: Our Tips in the Sunday Post
The Sunday Post has some great home features and we were thrilled when they asked Green Uses For Waste for some tips on how to spruce up your home by re-usin...
How to Reuse Coffee Grounds
Coffee grounds are a classic example of waste which many people don’t think they can re-use. Around 3,400 cups of coffee are consumed throughout the world...
How to Re-Use Wood Ash
If you use a wood stove or have a fire, you may often find that you have bins full of wood ash. Rather than throwing it out, you could put it to good use. De...
Re-Using Old Cuddly Toys
As your children grow older, you may end up with lots of cuddly toys that they no longer play with. Discarded cuddly toys such as teddy bears add to landfill...
Unusual Uses for Household Waste
This site is full of creative uses for all sorts of household waste, or rubbish that you would usually throw away. This article will look at some of the espe...
What is Biomass Energy?
Biomass energy is energy which is created from waste products. Biomass energy is a renewable energy. Renewable energies are fuelled by naturally occurring so...
What to Do With Old Shoes
If you have shoes lying around that you just know you won’t use anymore, don’t throw them in the bin. There are plenty of other ways to use them up and k...
What to Do With Old Tyres
If you have old tyres that you can’t use on your car anymore, there are a few ways you can re-use them. Using Tyres in the Garden Many people use tyres in...
What to do With Your Leftover Paint
It’s very difficult to buy the exact amount of paint for any household painting projects that you are doing. Consequently it’s quite common to have paint...