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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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Pioneers vs the Modern Homestead Trash

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

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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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Dry Beans That Won't Cook

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Thoughts on what to do with old flour?

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New life for felted socks - suggestions please!

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What to do with accidentally (or not so accidentally!) felted wool items?

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What to do with cooked bones?

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getting plastic out of our life

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What Do You Use Your Chopsticks For Other Than Simply Eating?

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What Green Burial Techniques Are Out There? What Would You Want?

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New fiber shredder device

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Gadgets that save waste rather than creating waste

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Question about shredded paper

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Precious Waste - Reusing Plastic Bags in a Beautiful Way

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a hair-brained idea--making garden twine from my own hair

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Learning lawn care in hot climates and looking for advice

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Brought home produce in cotton bags... Now what?

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Hospital gown fabric - synthetic, waterproof, breathable - what to do with it?

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Non-toxic tarp?

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101 Ways to Use a Dead Bic Lighter (let's make a list!)

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Concrete Block rubble uses?

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Green Burial /Human Composting

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Freezer bag alternatives…

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What to do with wet wood ash?

20 replies 1 1

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All the possible uses for straw ?

12 replies 1 3

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natural laundry line?

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Tips on how to shop for zero waste

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what to do with tree bark

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Artificial flowers

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Happy Plastic Free Month!

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Dog poo bags

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a year (-ish) to ungarbage our life: Month 1

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Yard sale, trash or treasure?

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Ecobricks

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An incremental approach to zero waste

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Chest Freezer As Cold Storage

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Left over sidewalls from repurposed tires

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What to do with sprouted potatoes?

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Creative uses for Bad-Quality Booze

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Can magazines be recycled

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Eating unusual parts of plants

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Not quite zero waste but getting there.

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