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What is one of the best reuse/recycle tips you have discovered?
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| compost compost compost!! Old nylons/pantyhose make fantastic scrubbies for appliances (like glass top ranges) and such. Ball it up, get it wet and put your regular liquid dish soap on the nylon. Scrubs really well and doesn't mar the surface either. You can start seeds in the produce clamshells (like those that strawberries and raspberries come in). They close over the dirt and seed like a mini greenhouse, and can be used over and over. I've got more, but I don't have enough tea in me to wake up yet, lol
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I work at a bookstore with a coffee shop. I take home grinds for compost and this year I figured out I could reuse milk containers as cloches It only took two days of collecting for me to have enough for all my broccoli and cabbage.
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pantyhose also work for tieing small fruit trees to stakes, as the tree grows, the hose will decompose, they also stretch as the tree grows unlike the plastic ties
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[quote]mrsengeseth (6/7/2010)
compost compost compost!!
Old nylons/pantyhose make fantastic scrubbies for appliances (like glass top ranges) and such. Ball it up, get it wet and put your regular liquid dish soap on the nylon. Scrubs really well and doesn't mar the surface either.
You can start seeds in the produce clamshells (like those that strawberries and raspberries come in). They close over the dirt and seed like a mini greenhouse, and can be used over and over.
I've got more, but I don't have enough tea in me to wake up yet, lol
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Hey, I re-use in the same way Oh and I don't have enough Green tea in me yet either.  Still trying to wake up - long process for me ! HAHA!
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I re-use my rabbit's litter which is wood pellets.
I put it in the garden, with the bunny poops of course. It adds richness to the soil and adds a nice color too It also builds up my soil as I dont have a lot yet - it's a new home - and it helps with the clay problem. I use a lot of compost as well which helps as well as some rich soil from our nearby empty lot. Cat litter is hard to reuse as it IS clay...... so I have to put it in our nearby forest, but I don't throw it in the garbage!
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| I reuse glass jars (pasta sauce mainly) to hold various grains and other loose foodstuffs. They are see through and can easily be labeled, not to mention I think it looks nice. I would like to eventually get rid of my plastic tupperware and use just canning jars to freeze/store food. I hate using plastic and would feel much better reheating food in glass containers than the plastic tupperware.
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| We help create haunts during the Halloween season, so we recycle the weirdest things to make scary and cheap sets! packiing material for appliances and electronics gets painted and turned into a mad scientist lab, jars get aliens put in them, broken kitchen motors get turned into animatronics, all kinds of things! around the house, I use things that seal well to plant letterboxes in, and use the bottoms of milk gallons for starting seedlings. we used an old electric blanket for a heat pad for germination, too. things get used until they get used up!
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I too have been trying to get rid of as much plastic as I can. But the clamshells for growing--YES!!! Thank you! I've got one I'm NOT going to throw away. 
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Violet Kelly (9/20/2010)
I reuse glass jars (pasta sauce mainly) to hold various grains and other loose foodstuffs. They are see through and can easily be labeled, not to mention I think it looks nice.
Same here with peanut butter jars. Since I'm allergic to wheat I have an array of all sorts of flours lined up in identical peanut butter jars. It looks nice, makes baking much fun and shows off that I am such a creative cook. 
My husband uses whey powder and the big white plastic containers will be used as plant pots for tomatoes and melons.
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