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13 Steps to a Zero-Waste Kitchen

13 Steps to a Zero-Waste Kitchen | Reader’s Digest.

Reduce, reuse, recycle: These expert tips will help you find new ways to cut waste in the kitchen.

By Damon Beres

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1. Regrow Veggies.

Strange but true: Scallions will regrow from their white ends.Just put them in a glass of water and let them get some sunlight. You can snip the green ends every few days for practically endless seasoning.

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Unique Vertical Garden made with salvaged gutters

DIY Vertical Garden with Reclaimed Gutters

Suzanne Forsling Gutter Garden
Suzanne Forsling Gutter Garden

 

via DIY Vertical Garden with Reclaimed Gutters | greenUPGRADER.

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ReUse – A World War II mantra in 1939

File:Make this bag last.jpg – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The promotion of waste minimization has existed for decades, as evidenced by this paper department store bag which urged shoppers to reuse their bags as part of the World War IIwar effort

Description
English: The front of a paper shopping bag, issued by the Eaton’s department store in Canada during the Second World War. “Make this bag last! Paper is vital to the war effort. Help save it. Parcels carried – save gasoline, rubber and wrapping materials.”
Date between 1939 and 1945
Source City of Toronto, Cultural Services, T. Eaton Company collection, Reference no. 1988.56.1246 

Toronto Museum Project

Author T. Eaton Co. Ltd.

 

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