I picked up a bookmark and a little booklet in the library today and am delighted to say that they are encouraged tree planting.

www.bbc.co.uk/breathingplaces

The book is called 'Tree Party' pocket guide.

www.treeforall.org.uk

www.naturedetectives.org.uk

I'm really delighted and grateful to see tree planting being encouraged in the media.

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*I use new shoe boxes to store stuff ! Than decorate them with all different kinds of paper products!*

SAME HERE!

Great stuff in tha group!

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A woman in a movie once made long colorful
chains with gum wrappers!
One can if so talented make oragami out of
any ol paper lying around!
Oh my goodness I re- cycle trash! Yep! Its a mess
but I love doing it!
My nieghboors out in the country burn thiers, hmm.
Mabey I can help them? Start them (support the idea) learn to!
The thing is not all types of garbage such as plastics
and some papers recycle local! Anyway I sort it out at the venue from three gynormous plastic containers that i haul in my lil truck!
My buds all recycle!
                                  

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Hi Boris,

I use old planks to make gates and shed doors, i use bits of wood to wedge doors back, i used to cut shapes of off cut wood and smooth them down and decoupage them. In the skips you can find pallets and i used to make then into a gangway for the barge i used to live on and some planks i would break off and cut length ways for a line prop and groove the top. Other lengths were useful to keep the barge into position on an outgoing tide.

Jecca

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oh yes of course all used envelopes are used as lists and memo's

Jecca

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Hiya,

we use empty loo rolls to make robots, all paper is used both sides and when colouring in we make it into wrapping paper.

We make all our cards for friends and family from already recycled paper. All stamps go to "The Downs Syndrome Society" along with the printer cartridges, which help bring in money for a cause i totally support as my little girl is Downs Syndrome and totally irresitible and all mine lol .

Any pebbles and shells we find we wash and sterilise and put into the fishtank too.

Jecca

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I use new shoe boxes to store stuff ! Than decorate them with all different kinds of paper products!

I re-use large sports drink jugs to feed my plants outside, and to water my animals, they're so handy and have durable plastic handles, perfect for fitting over the mouth of my spicket ; to hang there and collect water 'till full! Also these jugs;cut in half, have made a terrific scoop and funnel  for bird seed!

Bottom of the tea kettle water that is cool and no longer its freshest for tea; is poured off into a glass container to be watering for indoor plant life.

I incorperate many of said ideas of others here also, and thanks for now i have new ideas!  to you!

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i have some 100 year old timber furniture, and i figure, if i keep it in good condition, i will never have to require a new tree to be cut down to replace it.

i also scavenge timber from houses being wrecked, and timber that has been left lying around and has aged, to make more furniture, to slow down the requirements of others to purchase new timber furniture, and therefore reduce the demand on new trees being cut.

the tools i use are simple - a saw, a sander, and a drill -- usually using tech screws to hold it together.

i make simple shelving [sometimes using discarded glass as shelves], outdoor tables and benches, blanket boxes from fence palings and posts, and clothes racks from broken broom handles with forked branches for legs.

does anyone else have any ideas on how to recycle timber?

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