Oh dear – our first landfill item?
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Our first landfill item found during the WRAP Recycle week garage declutter 🙁
I think we might have found it. Our first official WRAP Recycle week landfill item. I would like to be able to offer it on Freecycle for compost / mulching, but I’m not sure; I think this might be taking things a little too far. I don’t think this is a case of one man’s trash is another’s treasure. It’s more a case of – it’s trash, deal with it, and your conscience, Mrs Green!
This is something we’ve been hanging onto for years for a ‘one day’ project.
We finally found the perfect opportunity to use it, but alas, we think it has seen better days…
I certainly wouldn’t want it in my bedroom!
There is a moral in here. I’d been saying for a long time that we needed to get on and use this item otherwise it would be ruined. I didn’t quite realise how true my words were going to be … It appears just as food goes mouldy in the back of the ‘fridge, other things in our life are not designed to last for ever either.
How guilty do I feel right now?
We’re off to load up the car with our first day’s offerings to the recycle centre now. It’s been quite a day, but we’ve got through a lot and we hope you enjoyed reading about it. More tomorrow!
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Hi Mrs G – what a pity. I’m not sure if this will help but there is a company pushing for carpet recycling in the UK and has an association of quite a few well-known members. It might be worth getting in touch with the head offices of a few of the members. Try http://www.carpetrecyclinguk.com.
Keep up the fantastic work
Perfect for covering up a compost heap / manure pile or as a kneeling mat- someone at your local allotments would surely snap it up. I know I would!
Hi Mrs Green,
There are bound to be some landfil items, since the collected material was in place before the Zero Waste challenge. As I found at Anna’s some stuff is just waste for disposal.
This should not count as your normal bin waste but as a single non-recurring item.
@Almost Mrs Average: Thanks Mrs A – someone tweeted this company too. I’ve been in touch and very helpful they were. I’ll be writing about them this week 😉
@Tim Hobbs: Thanks for the idea Tim. I offered the carpet on Freecycle after reading your comment. Hopefully an eager grower will give the carpet a new lease of life!
@John Costigane: Hi John; you’ll see from our post this morning, we are going to keep a tally of all the landfill items. There will, inevitably be some ‘one off’ occurrences; they key of this project is to keep waste to a minimum; putting into practise all we have learned over the past year.
I would have said the same and offer it as for use by a gardener .