The rubbish people give us

Posted by louisa on Tuesday 25 January 2011 in green | 12 comments

Colette from the Permaculture Cottage blog mentioned yesterday that she returned from a visit to see her mum with jam jars, newspaper and “other bits and bobs for recycling”.

We collect “rubbish” from friends and family too – we brought back a box full of trash from visiting my mum & dad in Southport in November, and over the last month or so, we’ve been given all sorts of things to reuse, such as:

• Screw top bottles from our party-hearty neighbour (he uses our glass recycling bin as overflow for his own smaller bin so he’s bringing them around one way or another) – John will use these for his homebrew wine when he finally bottles it up
• Some old (chip board) shelving units from the same neighbour – will become shelving in our garage-ette
• Glass jars from Strowger – he brings some nearly every week, the star – used for my marmalade and lemon curding antics over the weekend
• Egg boxes from John’s mum and John’s brother & sister-in-law
• Plastic food tubs from John’s mum
• Newspapers from John’s dad – old newspapers for starting our woodburner or lining the chicken coop to make it easier to clean
• Wood from John’s dad for burning (although I do save the best bits for making stuff with)
• An old wine rack from John’s dad – which will also be used when John bottles up his wine

I was also going to get a going-to-the-tip kitchen cabinet from our next-door-but-one neighbours (to turn into a cold smoking cabinet) but John’s dad got their first — you win some, you lose some ;)