Reuse Tips & Ideas Competition


Ooffoo Crowns First ReUse Champion: Check out the inspiring, innovative and practical Top 10 ReUse Tips & Ideas

The Ooffoo Reuse Competition sought to find the most inspiring, innovative and practical reuse tips and ideas. And your entries didn’t disappoint with so many tips and ideas submitted covering a wide variety of brilliant ways to help reuse things that might otherwise be discarded. Well done to you all for entering. You can browse all the entered reuse tips and ideas here.

The judges were tasked with creating a shortlist of 10 entries for you all to vote for and it was not easy to whittle it down to just 10. The standard of reuse tips and ideas entered was high but the judges decided on a shortlist with 10 fantastic entries.

Next was the public voting stage and vote you did in your hundreds for your favourite reuse tip or idea. That gave us the winners and so without further ado...

Please give some virtual applause for our newly crowned Ooffoo ReUse Champion and winner of the 1st prize of a £250 spending spree on NaturalCollection.com...

1) Old clothes make for warm toes! by Bev

During a recent clearout of clothes, I found several Tshirts and jumpers that were really not fit for the charity shop. I didn't want to just throw them out as it seemed such a waste of good material.

Sitting in the bath, topping it up with yet more hot water in an attempt to keep warm, the answer came to me! I unscrewed the side of the bath and tucked all the old clothes around the inside of the tub before screwing the side back on.

Now, thanks to my free bathtub insulation, my bath water stays lovely and hot which saves both on my energy bills and on my carbon footprint! I don't have to top the water up once!

Just make sure you check in a couple of days that your bath has no small leaks and that all the clothes have stayed dry.

 

Congratulations are also due to our other winners with 2nd place going to:

2) Storage Ottoman from drawer by Kindle Cherry
This is an incredible transformation of a thrown-out drawer into an absolutely stunning Ottoman - it is just beautiful and inspiring to see what one can do with another's junk

Kindle wins a £100 spending spree on NaturalCollection.com...

& a hearty well-done to our three 3rd place runners-up who each win a £50 spending spree on NaturalCollection.com:

3) Last of your candles by Louise Cardwell
No point throwing away used candle wax when it can be used again and again easily enough

4) Video cassette DVD tower by Beth Wright
This practical idea shows how simple it is to create a storage area for DVDs using their much-shunned Video Cassette predecessors

5) Re-USED: The Gas Bottle Woodburner by Lucy Wallace
A truly amazing transformation of an old gas bottle into a fully functioning wood-burner

  

Also on the shortlist...

Well done to the other entries that made the shortlist - they achieved much just to get on the shortlist and they all deserve our encouragement, comments and support.

6) Make Your Own Eco Barbeque by Sarah Davies
An innovative washing machine drum BBQ idea

7) Rags to Rugs by Jackie Newey
Amazing reuse of old clothes to create incredible rugs

8) Shower Caps by Chris
Two simple and easy ideas to reuse shower caps as food covers and baby hair bibs

9) Reuse for the Crafty by Maddy
 Thirteen reuse tips and ideas for the crafty amongst you

10) Snakes Alive by Bev
A tale showing how quick and easy it can be to create a draught insulating snake using old clothes

 

The Judges

We are delighted to welcome our two expert and well-respected guest judges. They both know a thing or two about going green and how to communicate.
Tanya Smale - Green Spaces Eco Editor, Spirit & Destiny Magazine
Tanya writes the Green Space eco pages in Spirit & Destiny magazine. When she's not training to be a Kundalini yoga teacher, she loves tending her allotment, trawling vintage shops for treasures and listening to Planet Rock on her pink Pure ONE EcoPlus radio as she rustles up vegetarian feasts from scratch.
Anna Shepard - Journalist & author of 'How Green Are My Wellies'
Anna writes for The Times, contributing features, interviews, book reviews and comment pieces. She wrote its Eco-Worrier column in the Saturday edition for four years. She has also written for The Guardian, The Telegraph, The New Statesman, Red magazine, Elle and Waitrose Food Illustrated and she regularly appears on TV and radio to discuss green issues, including BBC News 24, BBC Radio Wales and BBC FiveLive.
  Plus our very own, Julian & Joanne Spector, Founders of Naturalcollection.com
Joanne & Julian are the joint founders of Natural Collection. They also love walking in the woods and discussing philosophy. They are passionate and optimistic about creating a better world.


The judges were...

“amazed by the creativity and resourcefulness all of the participants have shown with their entries. It's so satisfying giving unexpected items a new lease of life by turning them into something useful and we'll certainly be trying out a few of the ideas found here in our homes."

You can read the original call for entries along with the full terms and conditions here
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