Cairo Life :: Beer Bottle Chandelier

The Stella beer bottle gets repurposed. This time it's at Arabesque in Wust il Ballad. Taken May 2012.

Uses for Used Tea Leaves

I've been using a lot of loose leaf tea lately. A friend got me some tea, infuser and stuff for Christmas.

Sometimes, I use the infused tea more than once. But usually, when I'm done, I just toss out the used loose leaf tea. The same applies for when I use tea bags.

So I did a quick search on 'uses for used tea leaves'. Wow, there are a wealth of options. The one the resonated for me was using the used teas leaves for fertilizer. I've had some difficulty finding good soil in Cairo. So this could be part of a solution to adding some nutrients to the dirt that I do find.

Here are a few of the lists and articles that I found useful for reusing used tea leaves.

From Ya-Ya:

12 Ways to Recycle Used Tea Leaves

From WikiHow:

How to Use Leftover Green Tea Leaves

From Life Hackery:

10 Unique Uses For Used Tea Bags