Clever Ways to Reuse Old Medicine Bottles
Prescription medicine bottles typically can’t be recycled in the US (I’m not sure about other countries). So what if you could find some ways to reuse old medicine bottles before tossing them?
Recycling
How can you reuse household items before you recycle them? What about items that can’t be recycled? Get ideas and tips on how to get the most use out of everything before it ends up in recycling or a landfill.
Some of our best recycling tips include:
- Learn what to do with shredded paper. In most areas, you can’t recycle it. But you don’t have to immediately throw it away either. It has some surprising uses.
- Also there are some cool uses for dryer lint, believe it or not. Great for arts and crafts and camping.
- And 20 uses for used dryer sheets before you toss them.
- Ever wondered how to dispose of old medication safely? The answer is complicated, but we’ve done our best to break it down and keep up to date with the latest changes.
- You can also reuse old medicine bottles in craft projects and as small storage containers. Check our our suggestions!
- You can repurpose gift wrap for lots of fun projects and decorative items.
- Reuse old pantyhose instead of throwing them away. After a thorough washing, they’re great for several household projects.
- Contact lens cases make great makeup containers on the go. They’re lightweight, the stay closed well, and they contain a good amount of items like lipstick, foundation, and even powders like eye shadow.
- Speaking of, you can reuse makeup containers in a number of ways before recycling them.
Things to do with old pantyhose
Before you throw out those old pantyhose, there are actually quite a few ways you can re-use them – from planters to crafts to toy repair.
20+ Uses for Used Dryer Sheets
What can you do with a used dryer sheet? Well, first of all: use it again. You can reuse dryer sheets quite a few times before they lose their effectiveness or scent. But after that, there are still quite a few useful things to do with used dryer sheets.
15 Clever Uses for Coffee Filters
There are a lot of uses for coffee filters around the house. Some of these uses are for new filters (buy them as cheap as you can) and others are for used coffee filters.
How to Repurpose Contact Lens Cases as Makeup Containers
Makeup can be heavy and bulky to carry around in your bag for touchups. You can repurpose contact lens containers to hold small amounts of lipstick and eyeshadow powder.
Ways to recycle used makeup containers
Used lipsticks, foundation bottles and powder compacts can seem totally unsuited to any other purpose, and yet I hate to throw them out because they’re often pretty and handy and it’s always nice to reuse or repurpose old things instead of chucking them in the landfill. This is a collection of suggestions for things you …