How can I reuse or recycle vinyl banners?
After last week’s post about BannerBags, I’ve been seeing that type of vinyl banners everywhere, particularly adorning the roadside along the main road towards the motorway. I remember thinking about...
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How can I reuse or recycle old lever arch files or ringbinders?
By complete coincidence, I’ve had a run of stationery questions over the last few days so I’m officially naming this week “Stationery Week” on Recycle This ;) First up, we’ve had an email from Neil...
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How can I get my office or school to recycle more?
We’re having a bit of a themed week here on Recycle This, focusing on stationery and since stationery items are most frequently used in offices or schools, I thought it might be fitting to have a...
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How can I reuse or recycle old photocopied paper?
Next up in How Can I Recycle This’s Stationery Week theme, we’ve had an email from Agata: Hi there! I’m still in High School and we use loads and loads of photocopies, mostly black&white. I want to...
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How can I reuse or recycle overhead projector transparencies?
Finally on this week’s Recycle This stationery theme, we’ve got this question from Nicole: Now all my college’s lecture rooms FINALLY let you use powerpoint, I can get rid of all the OHP lecture notes...
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Charity schemes to pass on promotional pens that work?
We’ve already covered recycling or reusing dead ones but Trevor has a question about recycling schemes for pens that still work: Here at the School of Health Studies we get inundated with promotional...
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How can I reuse or recycle old laminated posters?
We’ve had a message on our Suggestions page from Ruti (who, incidentallty, have left hundreds of useful ideas all over the site over the last few days – thanks Ruti!): What to do with laminated signs?...
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How can I reuse or recycle the cardboard or plastic sellotape cores?
I was packing up some parcels the other day and so I didn’t lose it amongst all my mess, I slipped the sellotape onto my wrist like a big bangle. Ooh, I thought, I bet once I’ve used up all the sticky...
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How can I reuse or recycle the metal bit of a ring binder/folder?
Lizzy has left us a message saying: Hello, right now I am staring at a metal central bit of a ringbinder, and wondering how to repurpose it. I had a leather diary with it in the centre, with the pages...
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How can I reuse or recycle name tags / name badges?
Leigh of the scarves had another question – what to do with “name tags/nametag holders”: you get them everywhere, but I have nothing to do with them! I don’t know whether Leigh means conference name...
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How can I keep using or recycle a Nespresso coffee machine?
We’ve had an email from Roger: Work as getting rid of a coffee machine it got free from a nescafe rep, and i thought of instead of letting it go to the bin i would rescue it and give it a home. I got...
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We’ve had a rather specific question from Douglas but we sometimes get incredibly informative responses to these type of questions so I thought it was worth posting in case anyone knows anything: I was...
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How can I reduce the amount of paper we use at work?
Continuing with Alice‘s Reduce This questions from last week, she’s also asked: Any thoughts on reducing paper used at work? In my housing co-op we send out several pages of minutes and agendas every...
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How can I reduce the energy wasted in my office?
We’ve had an email from Lynda: How can I get my colleagues to waste less energy without being seen as a nag? Everyone always turns the heating on instead of bringing a jumper and then when it gets too...
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How can I reuse or recycle plastic mailing bags?
Envelopes? Easy peasy, a million reuses. Padded envelopes have plenty of reuses too. But what about plastic mailing bags? They seem to be the default choice these days for sending out fabric or...
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How can I reuse or recycle old plastic pockets?
Do they have a name? Those plastic pocket things used in ring binders or lever arch files, for paper you don’t want to or can’t hole punch? If there is a name, I don’t know it, which makes it might...
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How can I reuse or recycle broken scissors?
(Hi! Sorry for the lack of posts recently, I’ve been ill and have mostly been slumped on the sofa in a heap. Feeling a bit more human now so without further ado…) We’ve had an email from Lesley and...
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How can I reduce the amount of packaging I receive in the post?
The other day, Mrs Green of My Zero Waste mentioned how happy she was to receive something in the post wrapped in newspaper rather than a bubblewrap lined envelope or plastic bag. We buy a lot of stuff...
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How can I reuse or recycle promotional nylon rucksacks?
I had an email from Melanie the other week: My name is Melanie and I work for an events company so have promo gifts! We have quite a few nylon rucksacks that we would like to recycle but don’t know...
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How can I reduce the waste I receive at conferences etc?
My starting off point for this post was the question “How can I avoid getting free stuff at conferences etc?” but the easy answer to that is obviously “just say ‘no, thanks’”. There is a bigger related...
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