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Can you only buy 5 items of clothing this year?

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I'm curious... What's the best change you made that reduced your garbage?

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Hoarding vs saving

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Just Use Less!

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Zero Waste Shop plans and realities

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how to get the labels off glass jars? (without toxic gick)

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Green Family Cemetery

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What do you sit on, and why does it matter, and much more?

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Pioneers vs the Modern Homestead Trash

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can we come up with 20 alternatives to recycling glass?

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What do you use to bring groceries home?

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Clutter madness vs. zero waste - where's the balance?

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Biodegradable Trellis Twine Options (I'm Done with Nylon)

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What to do with all those eggshells???

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Uses for Wood Ash

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make reusable food storage wrappers

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Sensible uses for used chip bags?

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Cool stuff rescued from the side of the road

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Guerrilla composting

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Matches or lighters?

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Sensible uses for used chip bags?

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Learning lawn care in hot climates and looking for advice

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what to do with tree bark

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Yard sale, trash or treasure?

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What Actually Helps Families Reduce Household Waste?

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What to do with skinny slate tile trimmings?

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Junk Drawer Cleanup and resell

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What do you sit on, and why does it matter, and much more?

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What Actually Helps Families Reduce Household Waste?

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clothing

Best Last Minute, Clothes-You-Already-Own Halloween Costumes

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Junk Drawer Cleanup and resell

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home care

Nancy's attempts to declutter

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frugality

Financial Realities vs Waste

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What to do with all those eggshells???

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Uses for Wood Ash

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Question about shredded paper

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List of Zero Waste Stores

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getting plastic out of our life

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upcycling

Upcycling mismatched socks

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Learning lawn care in hot climates and looking for advice

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Spent Lemons

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how to get the labels off glass jars? (without toxic gick)

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cooking

Tips and recipes to reduce food waste?

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Sensible uses for used chip bags?

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woodland

101 Things to do with a pile of sawdust/shavings

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Ecobricks

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Biodegradable Trellis Twine Options (I'm Done with Nylon)

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art

Best (foodsafe) paper mache paste recipe? And other advice.

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I'm curious... What's the best change you made that reduced your garbage?

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textile techniques

twined rag rug 'how to'

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fermentation

What Should I Do With Homemade Wine Leftovers?

3 months ago 10 replies 1

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Thoughts on what to do with old flour?

3 months ago 31 replies 13

ergonomics

How do you organise your rubbish?

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market garden

The perfect bags for salad greens/microgreens

4 months ago 16 replies 4 5

Using used vegetable oils for preserving wood structures in the garden or farm

5 months ago 39 replies 5

natural building

Crushed glass instead of sand

5 months ago 10 replies 1 3

Yard sale, trash or treasure?

5 months ago 2 replies 4

rocket mass heaters

A Hidden Cost of RMHs!

6 months ago 36 replies 2 9 34

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What to do with wet wood ash?

6 months ago 20 replies 1 1

flowers

Growing native flowers in a salad box

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cooking

Ideas for Pickle Brine Reuse?

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can we come up with 20 alternatives to recycling glass?

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food preservation

How do you store your left overs?

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Non-toxic tarp?

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what to do with tree bark

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recycling

Reduce, Recycle...RePurpose

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sewing

mending our clothes...do you?

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Can magazines be recycled

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Farm junk / dump cleanup and remediation

1 year ago 19 replies 14

Waste Free 23: Spreading the Way to a Cleaner Tomorrow!

2 years ago 1 reply

living art

Fairy Garden

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clothing

Sustainably sources work clothes

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