12 creative ways to reuse your trash at home

Appealing to the saying that “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure”, these twelve tips will allow you to turn your own trash into functional or aesthetic items. These images will give you an idea of ​​the amount of waste we produce in a week or so. Reusing is better than recycling, and the following are just some of the hundreds of functions that we can give to household garbage.

1. Use the wine corks as small flower pots or as floating key chains (if you go to the beach).

2. Make a bird feeder out of 2 plastic bottles.

3. Place an open refractory with used coffee beans to neutralize the smell of your refrigerator or car.

4. Place a ring of used coffee beans around your garden plants to repel insects.

5. Store the tea bags in your fridge after use and place them over your eyes in the morning to reduce puffiness.

6. Use all your plastic storage jars.

7. Old or torn socks are perfect material for kitchen towels.

8. Use banana peels to shine your shoes. Smear the inside of the shell, then scrub with a soft cloth.

9. Store already squeezed lemons in your freezer and then use them in fresh drinking water or grate them to flavor your food.

10. Don’t throw away the breadcrumbs. Save it and let it dry to feed the birds.

11. Add a piece of orange peel to the brown sugar to make sure it stays smooth.

12. Use the egg cartons to plant seeds; since the paper will bio-degrade you can throw it directly on the ground after your seeds have germinated.

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