Recycle This

Whilst the Climate Change debate rages on and
on, I think both sides would agree on the benefits
of recycling rather than letting things go to waste.
So the question is where to start? Sure you can
put your biodegradable waste into those miniature
grey plastic bins or into the compost heap. You
can drink from biodegrable corn oil based plastic
bottles and you can put your paper into a
recycling bin but what about your old clothes and
worn out shoes.

picture from recyclethis.co.uk

Recycle this, suggests all sorts of novel uses for
items that would usually be thrown away from
regluing and repairing battered canvas shoes, to
fixing old waterproof trousers with hairspray (no
really). A large portion of the content is reader
generated to enable people to pool ideas and it's
interesting how innovative people can be in their
desire to cut down on waste. Turning coffee
grounds into candles has to be one of my
favourite examples.

The site is also developed using free and open
source software and all images used on the site
are available under the creative commons act.
Which is nice... if you care about that sort of
thing.