Repurposing Second Hand Interesting Things
I was putting together my eBook on managing household waste and decided to include some projects I had done over the years that repurposed various waste materials we had lying around. After I had done that, it turned out that there were a lot more projects than I thought. So, I sat down and put together a list of links to those articles, arranged by the principal item being repurposed and here it is, a list of over 60 projects that repurposed random stuff!
Cardboard boxes & newspapers
Making Newspaper plant pots
Making a Mini-Greenhouse from Waxed cardboard Cartons
Making a Solar Oven from Cardboard Boxes
Using newspapers as mulch
Cardboard Box solar oven
Bathtubs
Making a constructed wetland to process greywater using bathtubs
Making a worm farm using a bathtub
Turning a bathtub into a wicking bed for growing vegetables
Making a bathtub into a productive water garden
Using bathtubs as aquaponic grow beds
The constructed wetland soon after installation and the productive water garden
Glass jars & bottles
Growing sprouts using a glass jar
Bottling tomato pasta sauce in recycled food jars
Making vinegar in glass jars
Making small amounts of yoghurt in a glass jar
Making a self watering bird bath using a glass cordial bottle as a reservoir
Growing sprouts in a glass jar
Hessian sacks
Repurposing a Hessian Sack into a Vertical Garden
Making Fertiliser Sausages from Hessian Sacks
Making a fence garden from a hessian sack
Vertical garden
Miscellaneous
Repurposing an old Ironing Board into a potting bench
Making Soap from waste Vegetable Oil
Making a Childs Playboard from Repurposed Hardware
Repurposing and Old Pram to Make doing the Shopping Easier
Making a stored heat cooker from an old Eski
Using a blanket as a door to reduce energy loss
Using bubble wrap on windows to reduce energy loss
Making a forge from a truck brake drum
Ironing board potting bench
Plastic Bottles & Containers
Making a Self-watering Pot from a PET Drink Bottle
Growing Veg Vertically in Repurposed Milk Bottles
A Fruit Fly Trap Made from a PET Bottle
Making a skylight from a PET Drink Bottle
Making a capillary bed to raise seedlings using a PET bottle as a reservoir
Making a bottle and wick pot irrigator from a plastic bottle
Making a candle holder from a PET bottle
Making a Herb Garden from Ice Cream containers
Growing wheatgrass in a plastic takeaway food container
Growing mung bean sprouts in a plastic lunchbox
Turning a wheelie bin into a rainwater cistern
Making a chook brooder from a rectangular plastic storage box
Making a cricket farm from a rectangular plastic storage box
Turning a rectangular plastic storage box into a self-watering container
Drink bottle skylight
Plastic buckets and drums
Growing upside down tomatoes in 20 litre buckets
Growing sweet potato in a 20 litre bucket
Turning 20 litre buckets into self-watering pots
Growing mushroom using 10 litre buckets
Making biofertilizer in a 20 litre bucket/fermenter
Making a bokashi set up from two 20 litre buckets
Making a strawberry tower from a plastic 200 litre drum
Turning a 200 litre pickle drum into a rainwater barrel
Making an intermediate bulk container (IBC) into a rainwater cistern
Strawberry tower from a 200litre drum
Polystyrene Boxes
Making a Garden in Polystyrene Vegetable Box
Turning a polystyrene box into a wicking bed planter
Making a food dehydrator from a polystyrene box
Making a worm farm from two polystyrene boxes
Polystyrene box food dehydrator
PVC pipes
Making a worm tower
Making a frog hotel
Making a deep pipe irrigator
Making a liquid fertiliser extractor
Strawberry organic hydroponic set up
Making a chook feeder
Making a bell syphon for aquaponics systems
Greywater reservoir for use with the deep pipe irrigator
Soft plastic compactor
Frog hotel
Tins
Making a rocket stove from tin cans
Making a rocket stove from a 20litre steel drum
Tin can rocket stove
