Hello World! Welcome Friends! By now you should be familiar with the 3R’s of a green lifestyle: reduce, reuse, and recycle. In this article, the focus is on reusing, which means creating new purposes of items before finally disposing them. You don’t necessarily need brand new things. You can get some of the used household goods or old clothing.
When you think about your household’s waste, you can find creative ways to reuse them. You may have been throwing away many things lately without thinking if there still are other ways you can repurpose some of them.
This begins with learning about Vermicomposting, recycling, and reusing basic household items and waste. Being this responsible at home enables you to lessen your garbage, a considerable contribution to the landfills.
You can live an eco-friendlier and more sustainable lifestyle. With that said, here are five ways you can reuse household waste:
1. Repurpose Plastic, Cardboard, and Glass Containers
There are many ways you can repurpose plastic, cardboard or glass containers. You may not see another use for them just now. But eventually, in the days after, you’ll soon wish you kept those items instead. If you have kids starting preschool, part of their arts and crafts can involve recyclable materials. If you’ve kept used but clean plastic, cardboard and glass bins, then they will have ready materials. No need to spend money for your kids’ crafts.
As to your glass containers, you can use it for your pantry staples, or to store dry goods. By reusing glass containers, you won’t have to buy brand new mason jars, which can be expensive. When all else fails, if you don’t know how to go about with recycling, or if you’ve kept too many plastics, cardboard, and glass containers, you can always call a rubbish collection company. They send the said things to junk shops or recycling plants.
2. Keep Used Oil, For Pet Food
If you have dogs who eat leftover food, one good way to add flavor to their food is by drizzling a little used oil on it. Oil that was used once will still have flavor from the food you cooked in it. Remember not to put too much. Not only are you maximizing your cooking oil’s use, but you’re also reducing food waste and scrap you’re throwing out for garbage collection.
3. Keep A Box Of Used Wrapping Paper
If you’re a household with young children, you can expect to receive and give quite a lot of presents the entire year. Think birthdays and Christmas for your kids, and getting invited to family and classmates’ birthday parties. Wrapping paper can often be single-use, if you immediately tear it off and throw, right after opening the present.
If you haven’t started with that habit already, why not keep a box of used wrapping paper, paper bags, and ribbons. You can then reuse these to wrap presents, when it’s your turn to give gifts. Not only are you saving money by no longer having to buy wrapping paper, but you’re also giving single-use paper products an extension of their life.
4. Have A Kitchen Drawer For Plastic Bags
You don’t need to buy brand new plastic bags, especially if they’re only for your trash bins. What you can do instead is to have a kitchen drawer and make it the repository of all plastic bags from grocery shopping moving forward. This is, of course, given that you don’t use a reusable bag for your groceries.
The whole point is whenever you take plastic bags home, don’t throw them out right away, if they can still be reused.
5. Reuse Old T-Shirts
If you have old t-shirts which are too stained or worn out to re-sell or donate, don’t throw them away. You can cut them up into small, square rags to use for heavy cleaning around your home. You can use them in cleaning your bathroom, exterior walls, and other heavily-stained areas around your house.
You don’t necessarily need to use brand-new, fancy-looking towels for all the dirty cleaning. You can reserve them instead for the kitchen or dining area, particularly when you’ll have guests over.
Conclusion
As you can see, there are many things you can do with some of your household waste. Your effort to reuse and reduce waste may only seem little to you, but this makes a big difference in setting the right example to those around you.
Change begins at home, and once you start with the habit of being more responsible with household waste, this eventually becomes part of your way of life. You can also set the right example to other families. They can apply the same practices of reusing household junk, leaving only those which absolutely can’t be reduced to the landfills.
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