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Free Starch PDF Print E-mail
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eco-tips-dinkus-60pxFree starch is easily obtained by just saving the water you drain off your next boiled rice. This needs to be kept in a bottle in the fridge, and only keeps a week or so.

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Handy Leftovers PDF Print E-mail
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eco-tips-dinkus-60pxIf you own a juicer and do your own carrots and get a residue of carrot pulp, it can be used for carrot cake, coleslaw salads, feeding the chooks, or a natural dye for homespun wool (with alum as a mordant it makes a good yellow/orange dye). If you are really out of ideas as to what to do with it, feed it to the worms or use it as a mulch to pretty up the garden!
 
Repurposed Tea Leaf Cleaner PDF Print E-mail
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eco-tips-dinkus-60pxCollect used tea leaves in a bucket for one week, then add 1 3/4 pt (1 litre) of boiling water. Leave for an hour, strain and bottle the liquid. Good for mirrors, glass, doors, furniture - polish up with a soft duster.
 
Clean Combs PDF Print E-mail
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eco-tips-dinkus-60pxTo clean combs quickly, place them in a small amount of very hot water and then sprinkle over them a heaped teaspoon of baking soda (bicarbonate of soda). Leave in the solution for a few minutes and then remove.
 
Pesky Rodents PDF Print E-mail
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eco-tips-dinkus-60pxDo you have mice in your rice or rats in your hats? The good old fashioned mousetrap is still the best. Set with a pumpkin seed, if they feed your rodents rather than fool them, a little butter spread onto the trap is unbeatable. And the bodies?

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