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Grandpa remembers a farmyard scrap heap—a pile in back of the barn containing tractor engine bolts, lengths of fencing wire, nails, and old tool handles. Grandma remembers summer dresses and dish towels made from flour sacks, pouring her milk from a bottle that she’ll later use as a vase for daisies, and drinking it from a glass that once contained jelly.
"Waste not, want not" was a phrase embedded in our predecessors’ minds from childhood and is an intimate thread in the fabric of American history. And while it may no longer be second nature for most of us, these simple memories embody the philosophy of reuse. As with many other things, it is an old idea becoming new again.
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The internet abounds with ideas for reusing materials that you might otherwise throw away.
Here are a few resources to help you start turning your "trash" into treasure and to give you some ideas for brainstorming your own reuse projects...
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At one time or another, many households in America have a stockpile of egg cartons sitting in the recycling bin. Have you ever thought of or employed useful ways to reuse this nifty container? By reusing items, you minimize production energy associated with sending them packing off for transformation into something new.
Egg cartons ingeniously cradle fragile cargo. The standard mode—known as 2 x 6 in packaging parlance—is made of molded recycled paper. You can give that paper yet another life by reusing the cartons in these resourceful ways:
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While many people don't give tires a second thought beyond inflating air pressure from time to time, those big, old pieces of rubber are actually quite useful for someone who practices sustainable living. Tire reuse right in your back yard doesn't just make the trash pile at the dump smaller; it also saves you money on tire disposal fees. Consider these creative ways to (re)use tires to help you with your commitment for sustainable living:
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