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It's the last day to send in your ideas for reusing items -- most creative reuse wins a prize from The Sun.
The bar has been set high, but we could use some more before we pick a winner tomorrow.
I've heard about using the two-liter soda bottle bottoms as orange juicers, using Sun newspaper bags to pick up poop and other good stuff. What else?
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Tim Wheeler reports on the environment and Chesapeake Bay. A native of West Virginia, he has focused mainly on Maryland's environment since moving here in 1983. Along the way, he's crewed aboard a skipjack in the bay, canoed under city streets up the Jones Fall from the Inner Harbor, and gone deep underground in a western Maryland coal mine. He loves seafood, rambles in the country and good stories. He hopes to share some here.
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Comments
reuse plastic bags at the supermarket - support Baltimore City proposal for fee for use of supermarket plastic bags.
Posted by: @ecogordo | June 4, 2009 10:04 AM
coffee grounds from ecosalon
1. Facial exfoliator: massage face with coffee grounds
2. Conditioner for your hair
3. Conditioner and flea control for your pets
4. Mix coffee grounds with eggs whites for skin firming facial mask
5. Use like baking soda in fridge to rid of odors
6. Deodorizers for shoes
7. Removing odors from hands
8. Scouring grunge off of pots and pans
9. Paper and fabric dye: boil a pot of water, then pour in coffee grounds and steep-now you've got the base for dye
10. Touch up scratches on wood furniture by using dye above
11. Natural ant repellent
12. "Instead of inhaling or wearing the majority of the ashes you clear out of your fireplace, sprinkle a layer of coffee grounds over them first to reduce the mess."
Posted by: ecogordo | June 4, 2009 7:34 PM