I usually forget about Recycle This’s birthday and only remember in a rush of guilt a few weeks afterwards but for once I remembered – Recycle This is four year old today!

As I mention on the About page, we were inspired to make the site after eating a bowl of pistachio nuts and wondering what we could do with the shells. We came up with the idea one night and just about 12 hours later, the site was up and running!

In the last four years, we’ve covered nearly 800 items and had nearly inspiring 11,000 ideas in reply, been mentioned in the national & international press on numerous occasions, and I’ve had hundreds of interesting e-conversations with wonderful people from all over the world.

Thank you all so much for making these past four years so much fun!

(Photo by Joccay)

It was my birthday yesterday – I spent it with 200 geeks in Wolverhampton, as you do – but since it was my third birthday since starting Recycle This, I’ve run out of birthday-themed ideas to post :)

So to give myself the day off, here’s a cheating post linking back to all the birthday-themed things we’ve discussed before:

• How can I reuse or recycle … birthday cards?
• How can I reuse or recycle … wrapping paper?
• How can I reuse or recycle … balloons?
• How can I reuse or recycle … stale cake?

Anything birthday-themed I’ve missed? If so, leave a comment below or drop me an email – ideas@recyclethis.co.uk – and I’ll use it on the site to bolster our birthday section :)

(Photo by nazreth. I’d need 29 of them. Because I’m greedy. And also 29 now.)