Recycling hint

Many of you will be familiar with the front entrance of your local garden center, how many know the back entrance? What is not saleable or fit for an in-store reduction often gets thrown away.

All the wood I've used in my garden project has been sourced this way and just yesterday because bags where either dirty, roughed up or ripped...I "recycled" the following..

1 bag ballast
1 bag sharp sand
1 bag limestone gravel
1.5 bags pea gravel
3 bags pebbles ( 2 inche size )
1 bag pebbles ( 4 inch size )
4 bags slate shillies

All will get used around the garden in one way or another and I also get the satisfaction of knowing I've stopped something going in the skip..and eventually to landfill. Ultimate recycling in my book.

Steve...

 

You got a result there Steve :gnthb:

 

Did you ask them first before taking stuff?

Sounds like good recycling though.

 

Nice one.

I daren't do anything like that though. When I was a kid my friend and I had old motorbikes which we used off road on private land (we were not the anti-social ones that rode them round the streets). We got to know the owner of the local motorbike shop who told us that any bits he is going to scrap go in a big wooden box out the back, and we can help ourselves any time and don't have to ask him. We took him up on his kind offer on numerous occasions. One day someone must have saw us and thought we were stealing and the coppers came as we were carrying various bits down the back alley to our houses. they didn't believe our story and refused to check with the shop owner, who would have vouched for us, and the coppers told us we had committed a made offence called "theft by find". Realising that they weren't going to get a prosecution because no crime had been committed, the coppers physically attacked us. My mate ran off and I spent the next few minutes being kicked about the alley before having a bin full of rubbish dropped on top of me as I lay there. Luckily there were more witnesses than the copper had bargained for and a formal complaint led to a prosecution and demotion of the two coppers that did it, which to my mind must have hurt them more than I got hurt, but still to this day I think I can't be bothered with the aggro.

 

Yes, I asked last year and was told that anything put out there was for the skip and eventually for landfill. I was told that taking it it helped fill less skips. I never take anything without asking.

Just today in the next village from me I asked a couple of scaffolders if they had any old boards on their wagon...now I have enough for a raised bed...:yho:

Steve...

 

That's a good garden centre then .... I had to pay £2 for a carrier bag with bits of broken pots in !!

 

Our local Wyevale has a large crate outside for returned pots that are free to take away - lots of people return all the pots from plants that have bought :thumb: