41 Ways To Reuse-Recycle Refrigerators

One of the worst things that can be put in landfills is refrigerators. They take up a lot of room and many old fridges used Freon which leaks eventually spilling that toxic ingredient into our waste streams and atmosphere. Even worse the amount of illegal dumping of old refrigerators, which cost each taxpayer lots of money for cleanup.

I Just Gotta Tell Ya

• Over 1 Million RV Refrigerator in Landfills today
• 90% of Refrigerators can be repaired
• About 16% of unwanted refridgerators are still in working condition.
• ENERGY STAR estimates there are over 47 million refrigerators over ten years old in the U.S. If every American home replaced its pre-1993 refrigerator with an ENERGY STAR model, enough energy would be saved to light more than 8.1 million homes for an entire year.
• An estimated 12 Million US consumers are expected to purchase a new refrigerator a year.

The Value of Refrigerators

• 25-100% of typical steel Appliances can be recycled and made into cars
• Refrigerators manufactured prior to 1995 contain Freon which can be recycled for use in older car air conditioners.

41 Ways To Reuse or Recycle Refrigerators –

No matter what you do, Remove the Latches

1.) Repair your fridge, cleaning the inside is simple using common non- toxic cleaners such as baking soda, lemon juice and vinegar.

3.) Donate – to Habitat For Humanity, Restore or other Used furniture and appliance stores

4.) Give Away- Using Sites such Craigslist, Giving Away and YinYango, will take away the fridge

5.) Recycle- Many places such as Home Depot in exchange for purchase will take away your refrigerator. Many local state and city governments also offer recycle Fridge rebates.

6.) Start a Business and recycle Refrigerators for profit

7.) Use as a coffin (after taking out toxic materials)

8.) Make Shelving for clothing, books,

9.) Put in garage for those times you need extra refrigeration.

10.) Make a Pet Shelter- take out trays, lay on it’s site, put a door on the side, paint or decorators

11.) Make a pond- remove doors, trays and shelves and other toxic substances, bury, plumb and you have a pond.

12.) Make a Solar Water Heater,

13. ) Make Art

14.) Make a House

15.) Make an Armorairre- Take out the shelves and trays, put in pole, paint and a new closet

16.) Make a desk- Take out the shelves and trays, put in a sliding shelf and voila a hidden desk!

17.) Make an animal watering hole- take out toxic materials and a new watering hole.

18.) Make a raised bed in a garden- No need to buy raised beds,

19.) Use as a cooler- having a lot of people over, fill with ice and put drinks into

20.) Need an extra bed?- clean it out, put in padding and now you have a bed.

21.) Make a smoker -made an awesome smoker out of an old freezer. The existing racks are great for smoking hams, or turkeys, salmon. Cut a 6″ hole in the side, down low, for the smoke box. Attach a smoke box from an old smoker and seal it up. Cut a 3″ or 4″ hole in the top and add some galvanized stove pipe pipe for the vent.

22.) Make an Air Compressor

23.) Make a worm bed

24.) Use as a compost pile

25.) Hold potting soil

26.) Use as a root cellar- bury in the ground and use the door as the opening.

27.) Store pet food, will keep the mice and other varmits out.

28.) Make New Storage

29.) Make a Car

30.) Take off the door and make a fence

31.) Make into Kegarators with iPod docking station

32. ) Make Kitchenware

33.) The doors can be used for sledding or a toboggan.

34.) Use as coffee table

35.) Use as outdoor benches

36.) Make tables out of the doors

37.) Make a water fountain

38.) Make a kids pond for fishing games.

39.) Make a sandbox for kids

40.) Use the framing for an elevator

41.) Make a Couch

Resources

SE Alliance on Recycling Refridgerators in Boston

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