Interesting Reducing, Reusing and Recycling links
With autumn slowly moving into winter, here’s some seasonal links from around the web:
- Here’s a great easy, trick for optimising compost from the fallen leaves – mow the leaves on the lawn along with the grass – the shredded leaves and grass clippings are a great greens/browns mix
- Speaking of carbon & nitrogen mixing, Throwback at Trapper Creek has written an ace article about making the most of homegrown fertilisers, specifically animal poop.
- A lot of us are thinking of planting garlic at the moment but Tomato Lady over at Little House in the Suburbs has been making paper out of the waste from last year’s braid.
- This, admittedly, uses more new resources than old – the only recycled bit is the bag – but this is a great how-to for giving a handbag solar power capability – perfect for mobile phone charging.
- And, if you’ve got a sec, vote for good friend of Recycle This’ Alison Bailey Smith’s Electra sculpture in the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce Green Art competition – Alison makes all sorts of awesome stuff out of reclaimed wire, often from old television sets. UPDATE: ooh! I completely didn’t see that another RT buddy Ann Ellis is also in the competition! Vote for her too!
Soory to hi-jack Louisa’s page for this but please vote for my sculpture from recycled wire called Electra
Liverpool Echo.co.uk – Environment – Liverpool Chamber of Commerce Green Art competion: http://bit.ly/kVq3b via @addthis
Hehe, you hi-jacker you :)
I’ve added a link to it in the list above :)
Hey, please vote for me too, I’m also a good friend and a finalist in the same competition! I thank you x
Lovely to meet through here, Ann and finally in person at the dinner. Neither of us won, the winner was Ilsa Parry with a lampshade made from the burrs that come off when metal is turned on a lathe.
Can I ask a stupid question? Why the hell does anyone need a bag with a solar panel?
Hi Myrtle,
Not a stupid question – that was a bit of a silly link really ;)
Having said that, I’m always forgetting to charge my phone and camera so I could see how it could be useful. More than on an about-town handbag, sewn into a big rucksack, it could be useful for hikers/campers — charging stuff while you walk — not just phones/cameras but also GPS units and possibly even LED torches/flashlights to use when nightfalls.
Love the garlic skin paper thing :) I’ve always wondered if that was possible. Could onion and physalis skins do the some sort of thing d’ya think?
I’ve tried it with onion skins – but without much success – it looks awesome but fell apart as soon as I tried to move it after forming. I’ve got a couple of ideas for how to do it differently though so will try again.