This site started from a bowl of pistachio nut shells. After we gorged ourselves on their lovely innards, they, the shells, just sat there, looking useful and versatile - but we no idea what we could possibly do with them. Just throwing them on the compost heap seemed a waste - all the effort to make them tough and solid, and here we were just hoping they’d rot back down to mulch before the potatoes needed earthing up.

When we thought about it, we were in the same position with lots of things: leftover bits of food, old household items, empty containers of all shapes and sizes... And so this site was born.

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Some of the suggestions really struggle not to be absurd. Just on the current homepage we see how to recycle old oats and Weetabix (almost the same thing). For the eco-flagellants there is the sound advice of using the oats as a face scrub! Mmm... composting seems the safer option. Britain now has many local recycling centres, unless of course you enjoy making stuff for the fun of it!

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