Thread: What Do You Recycle?

Well done Rod.

I have a number of bins for storage of small metal offcuts and even more bins and drums for timber offcuts, but I won't show pix of these other than to say I have ever such a lot. However, your mention of ice cream did remind me of these:

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Can't have too many. I do need to throw away the scales as they have broken and been repaired and broken again. Time for hoisting. I have, however, saved the stainless bowl that goes with it. You can see that on top of the ice cream containers .

I also noted as I was walking around that SWMBO may have lived with me for too long and some traits appear to have rubbed off:

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It appears she can't throw her plant pots away.



Regards
Paul

Interesting while following this thread with much interest(amusement).
And lots of good ideas, some hopefully I remember to use.
No one has used or been brave enough to venture, when does recycling, re using ,repurposing become HOARDING.Now there is a dirty little word in family circles.

I myself in my creative zone shed ,try to stick to the five minute rule.
If I can’t find something with in five minutes ,it’s not worth holding onto.
I’m hopeless at remembering what I have and were I put it last syndrome.
So ,I try to keep everything organised and in view if possible.
But ,like a lot of us here ,my shed wall realestate is more valued than a foot square in New York central.

Cheers Matt,

We just had to purchase a new clothes dryer. Apparently having to hold the door closed with packing tape isn't considered a longterm solution.

So now if I am lucky (haven't looked too closely yet) I might have a fire-barrel, electric motor, sheet metal and a power lead with a three-pin-plug.

Recycle/repurpose is a generational thing but also a learnt skill especially thr repurpose to think outside the box and use what's on hand to do the job!

So sad these days that "dump scrounging" isn't allowed as it was first class recycling as too were street council collections; found a heap of top timber at both....

Originally Posted by doug3030

We just had to purchase a new clothes dryer. Apparently having to hold the door closed with packing tape isn't considered a longterm solution.

Round these parts, a piece of bungy cord is considered the long term solution. Going well for about 6 years now

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Originally Posted by crowie

So sad these days that "dump scrounging" isn't allowed as it was first class recycling as too were street council collections; found a heap of top timber at both....

Do people pay attention to not being allowed with that ? Doesn't every one just check the council isn't watching and go for it ? specially the street stuff!
I go to a country tip now. The scrap metal section is as good as going to a store at times . Tool boxes full of drills , old German wire cutters and all steel wheel barrows. The trick is to take something to throw in there first I think.

Rob

Originally Posted by auscab

Do people pay attention to not being allowed with that ? Doesn't every one just check the council isn't watching and go for it ? specially the street stuff!
I go to a country tip now. The scrap metal section is as good as going to a store at times . Tool boxes full of drills , old German wire cutters and all steel wheel barrows. The trick is to take something to throw in there first I think.

Our council actively encourages verge scavenging and along with that promotes messages about keeping things tidy while you do it. It's one of the few sensible things our council does. As a result when its verge pick up well there are literally strings of vehicles driving up and down our streets including a "character" who rides a bike towing a small trailer all decked out with streamers and all manner of baskets hanging off the sides with stuff piled up over his head - I must get a photo see time

Our council gives us two cleanup pickup a year at one cubic mtr; it must be booked and only allowed to be put on the kerb the night before. Pretty damn lousy deal.
A contractor runs the dump/tip with huge fees & OHS rules gone mad, so I don’t go there anymore.

I`ve tried to make a list of all the things that I`ve recycled ,re-used,eco-cycled( natural sustainable material) etc ...but I`ve only come up with two items "Anything " and " Everything"
Some pics of how I use recycled material in some wood projects , everything is "inlaid".
The house I built in another life using whatever I could find , the pool started off with finding a ladder on the local tip so I had to build a pool to go with it, the tiles for it also came from the tip, as did a lot of the material.

A couple of old umbrellas, the spokes are sometimes nice springy s/s or close enough.
Bike spokes (from kerbside collection!)


Old poly cutting boards

Supermarket Meat trays




Russ

Originally Posted by Kuffy

I found this to be an interesting question and began thinking about what I recycle. I couldn't think of a single thing, so I took a walk around my shop and sure enough, EVERYTHING is brand new! Even things like my glue bottles, jars, paddle pop sticks, rags. It's all brand new purchased for the specific woodworking task. I feel that this is a problem which needs to be remedied, but I can't think of viable alternatives to my current paid for items...

I sure you consume tomato or chilli or similar sauce. These bottles are perfect for glue.

If you've got an op-shop sorting station near by, not just the commercial front end, they get far more clothes than they can use, even allowing for some to go to rag resellers. The ret goes to landfill so they are more than happy to give you all the old tee shirts, etc; that you want. I've literally just come back from our local one with 2 shopping bags (recycled bags too) for use with a heap of wipe on Osmo polx and polyurethane I'm about to tackle.

I like the oval bottomed, Polycarb I think they are, Fruit juice bottles for french polish containers . The elongated french polishing Rubber is able to be dipped nicely . The one with all the shellac build up is a good 15 years old so I don't go through many but I have three atm . I'm keeping these larger Diggers versions for the same thing .
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In here

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I have colours in old preserving jars on the leftIMG_8641c.jpg
And right are mixed spirit colours in Olive jars, the narrow ones. I forget what the wider jars were.

The lower shelf are more colours in small Jam jars.
And above the larger ones could have been Pickles ? I got those colours already in the jars from a retired antique dealer.
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I sometimes buy things like olives for the jar as well as the olives.

Rob

Originally Posted by Chris Parks

Old credit cards, rewards cards etc make excellent glue spreaders, serrate one edge with a file or saw.

Serrate one edge with pinking shears. (Ask SWMBO as she probably used them in 9th or 10th year.)
For finer glue spreading use crafty shears. Talk to scrap book people.

Originally Posted by Simplicity

Interesting while following this thread with much interest(amusement).
And lots of good ideas, some hopefully I remember to use.
No one has used or been brave enough to venture, when does recycling, re using ,repurposing become HOARDING.Now there is a dirty little word in family circles.

I myself in my creative zone shed ,try to stick to the five minute rule.
If I can’t find something with in five minutes ,it’s not worth holding onto.
I’m hopeless at remembering what I have and were I put it last syndrome.
So ,I try to keep everything organised and in view if possible.
But ,like a lot of us here ,my shed wall realestate is more valued than a foot square in New York central.

Cheers Matt,

I was reading this thread and about to post the same question when I got to your post Matt. Hoarding and just keeping stuff in case it might need it is something I used to do but no longer. If I want a paint container or a plastic bag I can get one out of the recycle bin as needed and if the Chinese continue to reject our recycle materials we will all be knee deep in the stuff soon so finding stuff will become easier.