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Garden gold: how to give common household waste new life as back yard essentials

From egg cartons to hard rubbish, everyday consumables can be repurposed into valuable gardening resources

by Connie Cao, Fri 10 Apr 2026

Excerpt: "Teresa Day, masterclass coordinator at #SustainableGardeningAustralia, says we need to stop using the word 'waste' and start using the word 'material'. She suggests reframing the idea of waste and considering: 'What am I going to do with this material, what can it be used for next?'

"The benefits of #repurposing or #rehoming materials extends further than just reducing landfill. Longtime gardener Olwyn Smiley runs a #permaculture garden consultation business and has found plenty of gems both kerbside and in local #BuyNothing groups.

"As Day’s late grandmother used to say, 'waste isn’t waste until you waste it'. There are numerous ways to turn common household waste into valuable resources for the garden."

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Garden gold: how to give common household waste new life as back yard essentials

From egg cartons to hard rubbish, everyday consumables can be repurposed into valuable gardening resources

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If anyone has the curiosity or any tips to help me out with pointers, I'd greatly appreciate it. #linux #repurposing

Takako 🐀Apr 1

My latest hand-sewing project—turning a new unused* flat sheet into pillow cases—is done! Turns out, a queen size flat sheet renders 6 standard pillow cases. Took me a few nights and an audiobook, “Lords and Ladies,” by T. Pratchett. 🧵🪡✨🎧📖

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*cheaper to buy a set of sheets, but we never use the flat sheets.

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Likely Jan Lukas Mar 29

So there are definitely moments of confusion amd/or explanation required as to why I genuinely NEED to retain this item or that item, because this is non-obvious to the hoarding specialist.

Family and friends usually know or can recognise why I have something or something is located in an odd place (as opposed to where one might expect considering the item's intended purpose), but even they sometimes might be scratching their heads over something.

Aside: I just realised that if I ever have the time, perhaps adding large labels like the classic #Batman #TV series did on their #batcave gadgets would be helpful to the many who aren't able to recognise a #repurposing. 🦇 😂

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Gary Day Mar 29

Current mission, recycle, repurpose or recoil! That iMac has a glitchy screen, Logic/MBoard issue? There's maybe a slim chance I could install and run minimal Debian on it for 'something'. Yes, that's a MKI AppleTV you can see. Three laptops and misc hard drives (even an IDE).

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