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-using and recycling what you already have!
Here's what we wrote...
Clean Up Your Act
There are great ways to save money - and benefit the environment
- Takeaway containers, margarine and ice-cream tubs are great for freezing leftovers or for re-suing as lunch boxes. Small plastic fruit juice bottles can be handy for holidays to fill up with shampoo, shower gel, washing-up liquid etc.
- Plastic bottles can be used as mini greenhouses, while youhurt pots are idea for seedlings.
- When the fabric on sofas and chairs gets shabby, the frame is often still OK. Simply re-upholster them yourself or use a professional. This could be cheaper than buying a new suite.
- Learn some basic DIY and save money by repairing things yourself. If it's not fixable, ask yourself if it can be reused in some other way or recycled.
- Save water by fitting a Hippo or other save-a-flush to your toilet - it can save up to 2000 gallons of water a year.
- Before you throw something away, clothing included, think about if there's any way you can do it up, modernise it or otherwise revamp it.
- Why not make start making your own compost? A cheap composting bin can be purchased from your local council.
- Gathering rainwater outside in a water butt is an efficient way to water flowers and plants. Water butts are also often available at a discounted price from your council.
- Reducing the central heating temperature by a degree or two makes a surprising difference to how much energy you consume.
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