Self-Sufficiency in Style
more from the dustbin
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Self-Sufficiency in Style more from the dustbin
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Yes, yes, I know I have an obsession with dustbins
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We can learn a lot from the contents of
the bin.
A good bin can really set the imagination running. |
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something important.
You are creating a lot of waste. Did your parents have so much? Wouldn't it be better to do something useful with some of the contents? |
It may well be overflowing, indeed there may be more than one bin, or an extra few bags and boxes stacked alongside.
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There is a lot of packaging
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Most combustible materials
are easy.
Your new wood-burner can make good use of all the paper, cardboard and also any wood and even some plastic. It will help get it going in the morning to provide heating and hot water. It will also, incidentally, help the morning "roar-up" which assists keeping the chimney clean. |
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of the waste food can go to the pigs.
There is nothing the sow likes better than avocado or banana skins. But, be careful, regulations are constantly changing - and under no circumstances should pigs be fed scrap meat. Goats like potato skins and peelings especially if they are crisped in the wood-burner. Meat can go to the cat or dog. Other vegetable waste can go on the compost heap. |
I like good food too!
but not meat - and not citrus skins. Well are you a cannibal that also likes lemon peel? |
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Make the supermarket work for you.
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You
will still be going to the supermarket occasionally.
Save any plastic carrier bags for use in the kitchen. They can line the pedal bin. |
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kinds of bottles and jars will not see the dustbin in future and you won't
be going to the bottle bank either.
You will need all the jars for home-made preserves of one kind or another. Bottles - your own beer and wine, vinegar and a dozen other concoctions. You won't be replacing them at the supermarket, so treasure them all. Also, if you give away part of your produce to family and friends, you will quickly find that they are unreliable when it comes to returning the containers. |
Tins you can't do much with, but bottles and jars, be they plastic or glass, have a thousand uses.
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We all waste a lot today that can be put to good use. It is not a matter of being mean or becoming an eco-nut. It is just a matter of common-sense not to buy something that you threw away last week. You can go back and look over The Dustbin Challenge If I still have your attention, we can take Even More from the Dustbin, metaphorically speaking. |
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...empty bins at - the outlandishly named Hangman's Cottage, just to the south of Misery Corner. |
