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'Sustainable Development' doctrine clearly requires us to spend more time recycling, while consuming and working less. The only question is how, and which recycling is more enjoyable and meaningful than consumption?
Burn it, pulp it, compost it, origami it.
Paper and cardboard mixed with grass cuttings in the compost heap.
Card -
homemade paper, shell, ear plugs, wire, and ink pen drawing. (By me).
Chocolate
paper origami eagle by Jazzy Cousins.
Woodstoves offer excellent exercise possibilities. Are cheaper than gas, oil, or electric, and you're paying your cash to a near neighbour rather than an ethically challenged global energy corporation.
Satelite Dishes Satelite dishes are the bizzyness (if not used for communicating with ozone busting rocket launched satelites obviously). This one could boil a litre of water in 10 minutes if the sun was shining when I re-used it as a parabolic solar cooker. Unfortunately that's infrequent here in the UK so it got re-re-functioned as a pond. Low eco gain option, but very pleasant.
Tin Can Sculpture. Metal's kind of fun to mess around with, especially for kids, all that's required is a soldering iron and tin snips, though a braising kit opens up all sorts of opportunities. Bob Rowberry's the bees knees at this - http://www.hardcorecarvers.co.uk/bobrowberry/bob.html
Knight - braising, copper, money, nails etc, by Jazzy Cousins.
Plastic milk bottles. These versatile shapes have obvious re-use value for mural painters as paint pots (especially those who work in schools), but can also be re-fashioned for a wide variety of purposes.
Scrap food - chickens Chickens'll scoff most of what you'll turn your nose up at, make eggs, and are a total laugh. This is Reaper, she roams free in the garden during the day and sleeps in the garage at night, though she'd prefer to move in with us. Bit fussy as chickens go, she dislikes mackeral skin.
Scrap food - Bio Gas I was so inspired by this website for Arti Biogas Plant for processing food scraps, I designed and built my own biogas plant. http://www.arti-india.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=45&Itemid=52
Plastic bin, ply wood lid, gaffa tape, shower pipe, rubbish sack, and carpet insulation layer.
Only trouble is I didn't read the small print, biogas activity only happens over 15 degree C. My garage isn't that hot so all I got was preserved food scraps sourced from the pub. Despite my best debating skills my family wouldn't let me install it in our bedrooms so it went onto the compost heap. But I love the idea, if this country was hot enough I'd apply for a part time job as school cook just so I could build a biogas plant and cook from it. So all of you tropic dwellers check out this site.
Humanure In 'The Humanure Handbook' Joseph Jenkins describes his compost toiletry and scrap food system. It costs next to nothing, is odour free, and a bill buster, it seems near perfect as far as I can make out - big eco gain, bill reducer, reasonable time consumer - check it out. http://weblife.org/humanure/default.html http://www.jenkinspublishing.com/humanure.html
My work waste: plywood off cuts from sheep, wild boar and rhino.
I ended up with a lot of plywood off cuts, and eventually I came up with the idea and got around to turning them into a range of shelves. Painted in white Green Paint gloss, or Danish Polish. |
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Paper
Wallpaper paste it.
Wood
Dalek
by Laurie Cousins. Tin can, bottle top and solder.
