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As recycling ideas continue to build up around the UK and around the world did you know that there are at least a couple of ways in which you can recycle banana skins for the benefit of your shoes!

This is a particularly use of banana skins which goes back decades although it is something that has been overlooked even in the recent recycling trend. Apparently rubbing the inside of a banana skin onto brown leather shoes is said to “feed” the leather and give a greater shine and look to your shoes. It also appears as though this particularly strange polishing instrument also has the same effect on silverware, giving a new shine and a new look to those old ornaments.

This particularly inventive use of an old banana skin is just one example of the growing number of ideas emerging which highlight the fact we have been wasting recycling ideas for many years. There are very few things which cannot be recycled or reused in some form or another and when you consider that glass for example has been known to last thousands of years (and does not actually seem to degrade when placed in landfill), recycling glass is just one element where significant savings can be made.

The ability to “think outside the box” with regards to Recycling Ideas is something which many people have been attempting to try over the last few years and months. In theory we should be recycling and reusing nearly 100% of our waste, whether some of the “rubbish” ends up in your garden compost heap. There are ways and there are means of increasing your recycling of the vast majority of general waste today.