{"id":7506,"date":"2015-01-26T15:15:44","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T22:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oregonstate.edu\/sustainability\/blog\/?p=7506"},"modified":"2015-01-26T15:15:44","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T22:15:44","slug":"9-wastehacks-to-reuse-everyday-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/2015\/01\/26\/9-wastehacks-to-reuse-everyday-things\/","title":{"rendered":"9 Wastehacks to Reuse Everyday Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wastehacks [w\u0101st-haks] pl. noun &#8211; any trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method that reduces waste in all walks of life.<\/p>\n<p>This term, Campus Recycling and the Waste Watchers will share with you easy Wastehacks so you don\u2019t waste time or materials.<\/p>\n<h3>Reuse Wastehacks<\/h3>\n<p>It\u2019s easy to forget how long of a life our products have. Yet despite their long lifespan, our society uses a lot of stuff. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epa.gov\/osw\/conserve\/materials\/plastics.htm\">According to the EPA<\/a>,\u00a032 million tons of plastic waste was generated in 2012. Meanwhile, we use more than 69 million tons of paper and paperboard each year. You can see how this adds up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/files\/2015\/01\/Wastehacks-Reuse-shareable.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7513\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/files\/2015\/01\/Wastehacks-Reuse-shareable-300x300.png\" alt=\"Wastehacks - Reuse - shareable\" width=\"210\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a>While 9% and 65% of our plastic and paper products respectively are recycled in the US, many of these items were capable of being used for other purposes. Today\u2019s Wastehacks will provide creative ways to reuse those everyday products:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Use old papers and assignments as      scratch paper<\/li>\n<li>Wrap postal packages or cover      textbooks in the brown paper bags that you&#8217;ve collected<\/li>\n<li>Use old magazines to create      handmade cards and postcards<\/li>\n<li>Cut up old cards to use as gift      tags<\/li>\n<li>Tear any letter-sized papers into      quarters. Keep these quarters around whenever you need to write a quick      note (Great for spam mail!)<\/li>\n<li>Reuse aluminum foil as      many times as possible<\/li>\n<li>Become a hipster: Wash out jars      and use them as drinking containers<\/li>\n<li>Reuse containers for other things,      liking store bulk items when shopping.<\/li>\n<li>Use plastic bags as a makeshift,      rainproof sleeve for laptops or binders.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are a nearly unlimited number of ways to reuse your stuff. Comment with your own Wastehacks!<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/oregonstate.edu\/sustainability\/blog\/tag\/wastehacks\/\">Wastehacks<\/a>\u201d is a weekly blog series where we share quick waste reduction tips. Tune in every Monday this term for more.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wastehacks [w\u0101st-haks] pl. noun &#8211; any trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method that reduces waste in all walks of life. This term, Campus Recycling and the Waste Watchers will share with you easy Wastehacks so you don\u2019t waste time or materials. Reuse Wastehacks It\u2019s easy to forget how long of a life our products have. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5035,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1292115,1292119],"tags":[608247,632015],"class_list":["post-7506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-recycling","category-waste-reduction","tag-waste-reduction","tag-wastehacks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5035"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}