People Are Sharing Their Best ‘Zero Waste’ Tips And Tricks, Here Are 30 Of The Most Helpful Ones (New Pics)

If we clean it, they will come!

I love this idea and the leaves are pretty too.

Many places in Asia you get each item wrapped in plastic, than in a bag and another. I am looking at you Indonesia, China

This is so cool. Awesome idea!

Am still doing this with chocolate spread glasses from Rewe (Germany)

Love this! Just a wee curious how it gets emptied. Truck shaped like a shark?

Went to a pumpkin farm that had pigs and they'd give all the damaged pumpkins to them so that they didn't go to waste. Everyone was so happy, especially the piggies!

Yeah but there are d**k heads that like to sue companies and ruin it for everyone tho!

Sorry Grandma, we need to use the urn for shopping...

I heard that they're banned in a lot of American neighbourhoods because of the HMO telling you what you can do even if you own garden! Although it's similar in other places too- here in London our apartment block says that "to maintain standards, residents are forbidden to dry laundry on their balcony". We use a clothes horse indoors.

Finally!

Can be done with any kind of bag. We used to make them up from all the free/cheap products that I used to get by couponing. By the time the holidays came around, we usually had between 15 and 20 full.bags which we donated to a local shelter. We also made up as many small kits as possible, using whatever we still had, also donated. Wish I could still do that

If the order isn't to go and your eating in the establishment you don't need it served in to go packaging.

I would love the skills to do this! Modern basketweaving!

Bet it also smells nice!

This! While I am not saying the average consumer shouldn't be trying to help the environment, I feel like the most serious help would be if the corporations and industries changed their practices. For example, I can only recycle plastic #1 and #2. Why are there so many #5? (On a separate not: Why are the plastic numbers so difficult to find/see?) Why am I not using disposable straws but the fishing industry is responsible for half the plastic in the ocean... it goes on and on.

If you have the cardboard egg cartons, they work perfectly for this craft!

So pretty! Great job!

Like the food co-ops of yore!

A lot of foods at fairs are also served like this in Germany (where Nordsee is based) - fried mushrooms, corn on the cob, chips/fries.

Bulk refills

Where do I get those lids?

Wow

Nice to have talented friends who understand you!

I don't think this really is just a case of: "You Are What You Don't Properly Dispose Of". There are an awful amount of corpses littering Mount Everest, just saying (along with a lot of more mundane trash).

good ppl to be

It's why I don't buy many brands of facial tissue. Peeling that plastic off the dispensing slots is a major struggle. There is a brand that does not have this. It starts with P and ends with ffs. It's better tissue, too, IMO.

Jars, bottles, cute bottles with droppers from face serums, decorative boxes from cookies... I am a hoarder who thinks "maybe I can use this one day".

A huge new crayon!

And very great for people who go on medieval fairs, do LARP or similar

Most airports have them. Not the coldest, but definitely better than paying $6 for a bottled water!

We do this every year as a family on the anniversary of our getting German citizenship. A little thank-you to the country that we all now call home!

Maybe he should have also included clothes pins?

Ah this is the Unnecessary Inventions guy I think! He's fantastic

Works fine!

I think I needed to read that

Should be more common. People are too focused on the print dates nowadays.

i just got back from switzerland, and our hotel did this too, genius!

See but now someone somewhere is going to add the the cost of water, heating the water. byproducts of making the plastic, etc. and say it isn't anymore environmentally friendly than if it was just throw away paper products. I'm never sure what to think.

Like this! Could also put soap under the bands to keep it out of the dirt (if camping) and keep the jar for what's left of soap.

Yep. Our old Aldi Ceramic Kettle died, so when I got a new glass one, the old ceramic one is used to water plants around the house.

If it's SIGG you can use them for a decade.

They're even better with a sour cream and bacon topping.

I must say, I haven't seen plastic rings on cans for years now... But that's in Europe. Perhaps they are still widespread elsewhere...

I like that. Would be difficult with my e-reader though.

Unfortunately, the area that I live in doesn't provide good tap water for drinking. We bought some 5 and 10 litre bottles and reuse them to buy drinkable water and not get sick.

very nice

I just make pumpkin soup out of our pumpkins

How is a tea towel useless? Good idea though.

Better yet, make your own scratching post out of scrap wood pieces, a log, fabric scraps and some rope. So many scratching posts are just made from cardboard, don't last, fall apart and are ridiculously expensive. Made this years ago, the rope can be pulled off when it's all scratched up, it'll last for years. 20201122_1...cc4381.jpg

Wra,Wrapped in paper and cardboard I hope.

and if you have to many, you can donate them to homes in need.

I do this!

good to make sure you say all animals are washed..

Is this a thing? I've had my same hydro flask for years. Dents all over but it still keeps reasonably cool. I also I have a yeti cup for at night. Same thing

That is insane!

I still think there are twice as many humans on the planet as there should be.

Twist the top off, put it in some dirt, they'll grow anywhere.

Amazing! I make my own lip balm as well using beeswax, coconut oil and cacao butter. Smells amazing and works SO much better than the store-bought kind.

This is brilliant!

Are you sure it was thrown away?

Never throw mint in compost, I learnt the hard way!

Guessing this is the before pic.

There are a lot of companies that do, such as Oral B.

I save mine and take it to Meijer or Walmart where they recycle it.