Many things people throw away without hesitation. It’s a pity, as some of them can be reused, saving your money, reducing the amount of garbage and making your life easier.
1. Plastic bags from the laundry and dry cleaning. Use them to pack suits, dresses, and other elegant clothes when traveling. Thus, you protect the clothes from wrinkles. She will remember less in your suitcase or bag.
2. Wrapping paper for butter. After using butter, do not discard its packaging immediately. Keep it in the refrigerator. Use this paper when you grease a baking dish.
3. Business cards. Use the blank side of the card to label boxes and cans. Just stick the card with tape on top or side to immediately see what is inside.
4. Used envelopes. Cut the corner of the envelope to make a bookmark. No more page corners! Just insert the end of the page where you stopped reading. You can also use envelopes for storing seeds.
5. Cardboard from under the eggs. You can use large egg packaging as a stand for your computer so that it heats up less. It is convenient to store New Year decorations in small egg boxes. Use them as an organizer for small items in drawers.
6. Box of paper handkerchiefs. After the box is empty, you can use it to store plastic bags.
7. Newspapers. There are many ways to use newsprint. It should not be thrown away at all. Glass and mirror cleaning, a toilet for cats and lining in the vegetable container of the refrigerator, protection of glass items when moving, gift wrapping. This is only part of their application.
8. Bottles with a spray from under a cleaner for windows, etc. After the contents are over, you need to thoroughly wash the bottle with vinegar and can be used to spray home flowers. You can fill it with a window cleaning solution that you have prepared yourself.
9. Fruits and vegetables nets. If you buy, for example, potatoes, lemons or oranges in a nylon net, keep in mind that you can use it to clean your home and garden. Make a ball from the net and use it as a disposable sponge.
10. Food polystyrene substrates. If you buy meat in such a tray, you can wash it with vinegar and wrap it in aluminum foil. Now you can use it as a disposable tableware on a picnic.
11. Old tights and stockings. Use old nylon tights as a rag to clean the floor. You can also use old stockings by putting on a vacuum cleaner brush to find a lost earring. Use them to tie plants to supports in the garden.
12. Cardboard roll from toilet paper. Use toilet paper rolls to store electrical device cables to wrap Christmas lights.
13. The peel of lemons and oranges. Put the peel in a gauze bag and put on shelves with linen. The smell of citrus will be in your closet and on the shelves. To get rid of unpleasant odors in the house, burn the peel in the fireplace. You can freeze a little zest of lemon or orange and use them if necessary to bake something.
14. Plastic bags can be washed and used. And the point here is not in saving, but in protecting the environment. In many European countries, in large supermarkets, plastic bags have been replaced with bags of recyclable material.
15. The peel of bananas. The peel from bananas should not fall directly into the bin. it has very wide application as shine for shoes, fertilizer for plants, softening meat during cooking, a useful food supplement.
16. Bottle caps. If the cork is natural, not plastic, it can be used repeatedly for igniting a barbecue, as an odor absorber in the refrigerator, as an original keychain, as a spool of thread, etc.
17. Onion peel. Add to the broth for color and smell. Use as a tinting agent for hair, as a fertilizer for plants.
18. Drunk coffee. Use as a remedy for cellulite, as a baking powder of soil in the garden.
19. Cucumber pickle is not only a remedy for a hangover. It can be used as a marinade for meat, as a sunburn lotion. They can gargle with angina.
Almost every thing can not be thrown away, but reused. The main thing is that you understand that this is your small contribution to protecting the environment.
