From jigsaws with a piece missing to threadbare rugs, here’s how to sustainably re-home those household objects you can’t bear to throw away (and ideas for what to replace them with)
Household clutter: it lurks in cupboards, lofts and garages. From jigsaw puzzles with a piece missing to piles of perfectly sound underwear the kids have grown out of, the buildup can be overwhelming.
Taking things that still work, or are repairable, to the tip seems wrong, when you might be able to fix or find a new home for them. And yet we keep throwing out what might be reused. Not-for-profit group Waste and Resources Action Programme (Wrap) says half a billion small electrical items ended up in landfill in 2022.
