More Recycling Tips

Tent

• If it is in good condition, donate it to a Scouting group or sell it at a garage sale.
• Use metal poles from A-Frame's as supports for temporary fencing around gardens.
• Keep in the backyard for children's slumber parties or campouts.

Tape Deck

• Smash a broken one to pieces and use the the parts to make original jewelry.
• Take it apart and use the parts to fix other things around the house.
• Use parts to make cool sculptures.
• Use parts to make little gadgets so you don't have to by them like tooth brush holders, jewelry racks, wall hooks, candleholders, etc.
• Tape rings (The cardboard rings that electrical and scotch tape are wrapped around.)

Television

• Gut a dead television and place an aquarium inside. Fill with fish.

Tires

• Use as a large flower pot for your yard.
• Place in your backyard and fill with sand for a childrens sand box. Use a large sheet of plywood for a cover.
• Attach to a tree and use as a swing.
• Hang from a tree and throw a football through it.
• Cut open and use as lining for horse stalls.
• Place in the desired area, fill with soil, and then plant melons or other plants which require mounds.

Toilet Paper Tubes

• If your family is anything like mine, you have way too many of these to reuse. Remember to recycle!
• Use for packing material.
• Stuff an extra set of stockings into a tube and keep in your desk drawer at work, your glove compartment, etc. in case of a run.
• Ask local schools if they need them for art projects.
• Put in the hamster cage.
• Wrap double-sided tape around the tube, stick one or two fingers in the middle and roll over clothing, furniture, etc. to remove lint.
• Tape one end of yarn/string to the tube. Wrap the string around the tube and then hook the end into a notch cut into the edge of the tube.
• It makes for easy storage. Use for storing your home-made ribbon from potato chip bags.
• Let your kids use along with kleenex boxes as building blocks.
• Stuff a few plastic bags into the tube and then place the tube in the glove compartment of your car.
• It will keep them tidy and on-hand for when you need them.
• Use for wrapping party gifts by inserting the gift, pinching and taping the ends closed and then decorating.
• Use for storing long pieces of ribbon which have been saved from packages. This will keep the ribbon smooth.
• Slip over small cords to prevent them from tangling.
• Give to pet rodent or bird for play.
• Glue tubes together vertically into a grid larger than your television. Cover the grid with wax paper and place in front of the tv. It gives you a cool, multi-colored light.
• Use in place of a peat pot. Fill with potting soil, place in a plastic butter/ice cream tub, plant the seed and water. When the plants sprouts, plant the seedling (tube and all) in the ground. The tube rots away.

Toilet Paper Wrappers

• Use the packaging from toilet paper rolls as tissue paper when giving gifts as presents.
• Use for stuffing pouf valences, etc.
• Make paper flowers from the tissue paper wrapper.
• Use as bows on presents.

Toothbrush

• Use for polishing your shoes. This is especially useful for where the shoe meets the sole.
• Use for cleaning threaded mechanical parts.
• Use for cleaning greasy auto parts.
• The artistic type can use one as a coarse paint brush.
• Use for cleaning combs.
• Melt the handle until soft enough to bend at a 90 degree angle (with bristles pointing out), and use it to clean coffee makers, etc.
• Take the bristles out, soften the handle in boiling water, bend to fit your wrist and then paint. Wear it as a bracelet.
• Use old ones to clean the grooves between the tiles in your bathroom.

Toothpaste Tube

• Cut off the end of the tube and clean it well. Use as a cake frosting decorator.

Window Shades

• Use the pull-down type as a protective covering for your table when the kids are painting, playing with play-doh, etc.
• Use in the garage for resting greasy tools on (to keep the work bench clean).

Weights

• Use to hold down tarps.
• Hang five pound weights from the pool cover to keep it from blowing around.
• Stack flat weights in two columns to an equal height and place a piece of plywood across for quick shelving in the basement or garage.
• Use as a door stop.
• Take the velcro from the ankle or wrist weights and use for something which requires velcro.

Wheel Barrow

• Paint to the desired color, roll it out to the middle of the yard and use it as a really big flower pot.