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Loading...Give Kitchen Trash a Second Life–35 Quick Tips
- Melissa Breyer
- March 16, 2009
- 1:09 pm
- 57 comments
By Melissa Breyer, Senior Editor, Healthy & Green Living
Old tea leaves in the litter box? Grapefruit peels for a skin tonic? You can get pretty creative with your kitchen trash when, say, the eleven families in your eleven-family building fill up the compost bin in a month and you’re left having to throw perfectly good food trash away! Maybe you aren’t able to compost–or you don’t have a recycling program that composts for you. For whatever reason, if you find yourself tossing those earnest, used coffee grounds in the trash or pouring out that last splash of wine in the bottom of a bottle–give them a second life!
Egg Shells
• Cleaned egg shells can be sprinkled on the ground in the garden to deter garden pests and provide nourishment to the soil.
• Make some ridiculously cute seed-starting pots, here’s how.
• Help nesting birds–save the (calcium-rich!) shells of eggs you use. Grind up the egg shells and stir them into cornmeal, sprinkle the cornmeal/calcium mix around the feeders, on a platform if available.
Next: Creative ways to revitalize fruit and vegetable peels, used coffee grounds, stale bread, leftover wine and more!
Read more: Beauty, Green Kitchen Tips, Holistic Beauty, Home, Household Hints, Nature, Reduce, Recycle & Reuse, DIY, kitchen, leftovers, trash
Melissa Breyer
Melissa Breyer is a writer and editor with a background in sustainable living, specializing in food, science and design. She is the co-author of True Food (National Geographic) and has edited and written for regional and international books and periodicals, including The New York Times Magazine. Melissa lives in Brooklyn, NY.
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Great tips--thanks.
Thank you
Wow. Lots of great suggestions here.
interesting
thanks for sharing
Interesting ideas, thank you.
Very helpful tips, in particular the tea section.
I absolutely loved this article. Have been doing some of those things, e.g. coffee exfoliations (I recommend adding some ginger powder for a slight anti-cellulite effect) , bread puddings, but there are so much more great things to try. Thanks a lot!
I like the gazpacho idea..So simple but I never would have thought of it to use up vegies befor going bad
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