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i have heard that the kind of paper containers that hold milk, yogurt, cottage cheese, sour cream and ice cream are NOT recyclable because they contain some kind of wax coating. can any one confirm this?? and does anyone know:...

I’d like to recycle 1/2 a leftover rotisserie chicken into a main course, but have gone blank. In warmer weather, I’d put it into pasta salad, but could use other suggestions. TIA

My son loves Pringles and goes through about a container a week. The container (the cylindrical can that resembles a tennis ball can) seems like it should be recyclable, but I can’t find any evidence that it is on the...

Of course it is! That’s not recycled, it’s still fresh... you’d only need to worry if the original stock was getting elderly – storage time is cumulative.

Thanks for the info. While we have terrific water here in nyc, our pipes are old (very old). So DH and I use brita water filters. It would be great to recycle them.

I suspect it’s not legal as well. I think a lot of places recycle bread and/or chips. I take a sort of don’t ask don’t tell policy about these sorts of things. If I don’t see it, I don’t care....

there are these perpetual, recycled liquids being used. Barbara Tropp in her China Moon cookbook recounted that after a big earthquake in San Francisco her “perpetual stocks” had to be re-started and it took a while...

I’m looking to buy recycled grocery bags. I’ve looked at two websites – reusablebags.com and ecobags.com but I can’t seem to make up my mind. At home I have both the canvas kind and the recycled...

I have too many cookbooks and need to clear my shelves! Do you have an idea of where I can recycle them? Do you want them? Most of Saveur 2003 (plus a few) Most of Gourmet 2004 (plus a couple) I just want to get rid of 'em (for the...

I have 2 partial boxes of rice cereal and 1 partial of baby oatmeal that have not been opened in months. I could just throw them out. But I thought it might be fun to see what I could cook with it that would be palatable to...

We have a big bag of banana chips from trader joes that, it turns out, no one wants to eat. Has anybody experimented with grinding up or otherwise using these in cooking, for example banana bread or cake? any suggestions?

I have cookie cutters that I made from small cans that have both ends knocked out. I also use a wine bottle for a rolling pin. I’m interested other ideas for reusing stuff into cooking tools.

Couldn’t resist all the special appetizers last night (fresh oysters, fried oysters, gyoza, etc,). Now stuck with most of the main course (tuna, fluke, salmon sushi...tuna maki, etc.) Shame to waste it...any ideas? Once...