Brummet's Conscious Blog

Reuse In the Kitchen Kitchens offer many reuse and repurpose opportunities and today, I'm hoping to inspire you with a few ideas that can save money too.  Brown paper bags, while reusable, recyclable and compostable, can be an aide in the kitchen as well. Cut a clean paper bag open so that it will lie flat, with the inside up, on a large cooling rack. Place freshly baked cookies on the paper to cool; the paper will absorb excess fat and the used paper bag is still compostable.  Both plastic bags and foil can be reused several times before recycling; wash by hand, dry and store until they needed. Once they have come in contact with meat, throw them away – recycling centres don’t want them either. Once a large plastic bag has sprung a leak or the zipper seal fails or anything like that, they can be cut open to form a sheet. This can be used as a drop sheet for a craft and kitchen projects or as a temporary cover for starting garden seeds. Alternatively if the sheet is very clean...