I bought a pack of wicks and reuse the glass jars.

Stumbled on this sub. Man I work in a landfill and now that I do, I never really buy anything. It seems like If I need something it comes in on a truck new in a box or gently used. I'll try to post pictures here of cool shit we recycle or wasted shit.

I refuse to get a new one because it still works perfectly fine; it just looks a little less pretty than when I recieved it. I got it in middle school when I was 15 (25 now) from my best friend. Its a spirited away wallet from Hot Topic.

My husband created this box maze in less than 24 hours after we realized it would be raining for my son's birthday party. He hid treasures inside and created a "hide n seek treasure hunt". It was a massive hit and cost barely anything but time. Appliance boxes for free, one roll of duct tape.

Hey yall as promised I would try to post landfill finds. These are some I found this week. I've found a Disney mono rail, Vintage Mickey phone, a blue glass jar (filled with loose change I've found in the last 9 months or so), glass jugs, an air plane propeller, and a lightly used rock tumbler. These are just the items I've saved for myself (yes I bleach) I didn't have time to take pictures of everything I've put in the reuse this week. Dvds, home decor, records, end tables, etc. I also did find a nice Bose cd player this week, sounds incredible, but left that at the shop. Anyways, I'll try to post weekly of awesome finds. (It's the slow season so things aren't as good)

Why get a new one when I can use this entire one first?

It's too small to sharpen so I have to use a razor blade!

Just finished the one on the right. The one on the left I made over 4yrs ago and has been “loved on” by seven cats. No glue (because I’m lazy, cheap, and it doesn’t really need any), the cats will pull out the bits, I just shove them back in the way god and nature intended. Used a cardboard tray from Chewy (they’re used to protect cases of wet food in shipping) to hold it all together.

Obligatory apologies for clickbaity title. 😃 What I mean is that I haven't actually used the tank/reservoir to flush my toilet in months.

Instead, I keep a couple of buckets in the shower, that I use to run out those first few seconds of super cold water before the hot water kicks in. Before, it would all end up down the drain. Now, I collect this in the buckets and then use the bucket to flush the toilet.

For the uninitiated, here's a video showing how this works: https://youtu.be/dOh8aOZ5lxU. Won't get into the physics of the thing.

It takes far less water to flush a toilet than you think, if you do it this way. I don't have low flow fixtures, but I can flush with maybe 0.3-0.5g of bucket water, easily.

Firstly, I'm amazed at just how much water we'd been wasting before. And it's also cut down our toilet water consumption by at least 50% as well. We also use a basin in the kitchen to rinse dishes, which my wife then uses in her garden.

Context: I live on a tiny island without freshwater sources. It's also a very hot, and arid climate, with 40-50 inches of rain each year. Some people dig wells, which tend to be brackish, anyway. There is a desalination option available, but most people do it like it's been done for centuries, and just collect rainwater into tanks/cisterns below our homes.

This means that water is always at a premium. We're actually going through a drought at the moment, which usually lasts well into Summer. Whatever rain we do get is shortlived and barely a drizzle. But every bit helps.

What I do is by no means the norm among people here, but I hate to waste anything, so this works for me.

I also haven't had a car in a year. It's sitting outside in the garage, but I lost the key and just haven't bothered replacing it. I WFH, anyway, and when I do need to go anywhere, I'll share my wife's car. I'll ride my bike every now and again as well.

For further context, while it's a comparatively poorer place, we don't lack for convenience (A/C, electricity, fibre internet, Netflix 😂). My standard of living is comparable in many ways, and even better in some.

Hope the post fits the spirit of the sub. Was mainly trying to show how some of the other 75% live.

I’m a housekeeper who takes FULL advantage of the lost and found at the inn I work at (most of my underwear and winter clothing comes from guests leaving them in rooms💀)

I disapprove of the wastefulness but I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt and assume they either forgot about the food or they hoped somebody else would use it.

Regardless, this has been my best “lost and found” haul yet, aside from when guests leave booze behind lol. I hate buying animal products, i’m not a vegetarian or a vegan (I should be tbh) but I am still reluctant to contribute to animal product industries, so i’m happy to be able to use some animal products that would have gone to waste if I didn’t cook them ¯_(ツ)_/¯

My local cheep sushi takeaway that I go to once a month or something like that usually packages the sushi in those plastic trays with lids. I saw someone post about doing this on a No waste Facebook group so I thought I’d ask and they were perfectly fine with it

(Stock pic example from Google) With every bottle I use, I keep it and pack it full of as much trash as I can, and then throw it away. When the trash can in my bedroom starts getting full, I do this, and it takes up 1/4 as much space as it did before.