Recycling String

[aestarte]

I think this is the right place to ask this. My daughter has a paper round and when the guy delivers the papers they are held together with this awful string. I dont want to put it in the bin because then it will go to landfill which will cause all sorts of problems so what do I do with it? I have a bag full of it, my kitchen already looks like a recycling centre, with paper and cardboard bags and now i have got a string bag. If I take it to the recycling centre they will put it in the waste that can't be recycled skip and then we are back to the initial problem. Thanks in advance for any advice. Fi. X X X X

[nightshade]

It is not popular now but my grandparents used to make string bags and even sacks out of lengths of string.They collected scraps of soap,brown paper and even made a garden wash of tobacco in a butt of water very
little was wasted even coaldust and paper was made into briquettes for the fire

[nightshade]

Free Plans: How To Make a Hammock

[tufftie]

at the stables we always used to make haynets out of old baling twine

[m1.carson]

Hi Aestarte,

Sounds like they wan't you to take up knitting or crocheting, try macrame, it's easier, makes great nesting things, can't say boxes 'cause it's made out of string .

On a more serious note, do what I do with discarded fishing line that I find, cut it into short lengths that can't tangle wildlife.

Max.

[tufftie]

fishing line also makes good instrument strings - homemade banjo's and thing..

[Susie]

Hmm, how about making a rug by using the same principal as you would a rag rug?

[aestarte]

Thanks for the ideas mmmm a hammock! Theres an idea that way I can enjoy my partner doing all the gardening, joy. Any hoo some of it has gone to one side for holding plants up in the spring and the rest I will shred up; put some out for the birds i think and get rid of the rest as it comes, thanks and happy new year. Fi. X X X X

[Paul mabbott]

Is it plastic or natural twine? If the latter then you can probably compost it, if the former then it should go in with the plastic recycling?

Originally Posted by aestarte

I think this is the right place to ask this. My daughter has a paper round and when the guy delivers the papers they are held together with this awful string. I dont want to put it in the bin because then it will go to landfill which will cause all sorts of problems so what do I do with it? I have a bag full of it, my kitchen already looks like a recycling centre, with paper and cardboard bags and now i have got a string bag. If I take it to the recycling centre they will put it in the waste that can't be recycled skip and then we are back to the initial problem. Thanks in advance for any advice. Fi. X X X X

[coasty]

My father in law ( retired farmer ) always adds bits of string to a big ball of it in the garage, He always says that it will come in if he never uses it....