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Which is better, a reuse or recycling? To me reuse is greener compared to recycle. When we recycle we pay the cost of transportation and some one else pay the cost of actual recycle where item ‘A’ is converted in to item ‘B’, a lot of energy is consumed in this transformation. Form next time, before we throw items in trash think for bit if you can make use of it in some way. For if its in trash its going to be recycled in to something else at the cost of energy consumption. Below are some household chores where we can reuse materials we consume every day and there by, save money. Reuse while Moving
Re use for gardening
Regular Cleaning
Re use for Decoration
Readers, are you inspired to think of other ways to re use old stuff rather than recycling? Feel free to comment with links to your own posts on the subject or any web source you know of.
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Go Green, Reuse Household Items and Save Money
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Thanks for posting Jeff
I save peanut butter containers, miracle whip containers and the like for keeping screws and nails in. It’s a good way to keep them organized.
Also, save jam jars and pickle jars for when you make you’re own.
Why buy new when you get them for free with the stuff you have to buy anyway.
We keep sugar, cookies which are other wise packed in paper can be kept in these jars as well, great suggestion
I have to agree, re-using is greener than recycling. Re-purposing items that have outlived their original purpose just makes good sense. Great read.
thanks Hunter!
You can just use the newspapers in lieu of rags when cleaning windows. It leaves the windows streak free!
definitely yes, also news papers can be first layer of cleaning for your old dusty items.
In my quest to reuse or repurpose I could easily become a hoarder. I find that I rarely buy anything new – my favorite ‘stores’ are my own stuff, a local thrift store and yard sales. I’ve been doing this for at least 55 years.
One of my favorite books is by Carolyn Jabs “Re/uses 2133 Ways to recycle & reuse…”. If you’re lucky you can find it at your local library or on Amazon.
Always look for ways to reuse/repurpose what you already own instead of buying. By thinking out of the box you’ll save money, save landfill space and make something unique.
Interesting book, will do a search on our county library, thanks for the info
Reuse is much better than recycling. Our recycling people won’t take toilet rolls.
why not? That’s dumb.
there are so many way you can use of toilet rolls, keep your shopping plastics in it, it will save space
Good article, SB. We’re big fans of re-purposing and re-use. Newspaper products and carboboard egg cartons go into the worm bins as bedding, as does most kitchen waste. Coffee cans, old clothes, dryer lint…. the list goes on.
Good tips. One thing we do with the plastic bags is use them in the various rooms throughout the house as garbage bags. Each room has a little trash can, so they are perfect to use as the garbage bags.
What a great list of tips for reusing things so as to reduce our waste! Our aromatherapy company encourages our customers to bring back their bottles by offering a discount so we can reuse them and reduce our footprint. It’s win-win!
I like all of your tips! I use old t-shirts as rags among some of the other tips, but I’ll have to check out the TP art!
I really love the thought of reusing things, I mean, why bother buying something again that you already have even ‘disposable’ items. It’s just silly!
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