How to Recycle your unwanted Breadbin

[BloomingMarvellous]

Thought this was very funny when i came across it on the Western Isles, a Letterbox made from an old breadbin.



and thought this was another lovely idea.

[Jez]

Like both of these, reminds me when our door bell was a old car horn "honk honk"

[BloomingMarvellous]

Just been having a look round the Western Isles on Google Maps and found the Breadbin letterbox, how funny.




Plocrapool, Eilean Siar HS3, United Kingdom - Google Maps

[bigdave60dog]

Yep! We are real good at recycling in the Isles. It comes from 1. Us being poorer than you Sutherners. 2.Things here costing the Earth as result of tranportation costs. 3. There are limited landfill sites and most important. We all hate to easte anything.
Seriously I think that we have a much less wasteful culture in the North in general. Maybe because times have really been hard here in the past due to the collapse of the Uk fishing industry so it has become second nature to look for alternative uses for old wood, metal,pplastic and untensils etc.

[snowdrop]

Thanks for the map Eilean. What a lovely place.

[BloomingMarvellous]

Originally Posted by bigdave60dog

Yep! We are real good at recycling in the Isles. It comes from 1. Us being poorer than you Sutherners. 2.Things here costing the Earth as result of tranportation costs. 3. There are limited landfill sites and most important. We all hate to easte anything.
Seriously I think that we have a much less wasteful culture in the North in general. Maybe because times have really been hard here in the past due to the collapse of the Uk fishing industry so it has become second nature to look for alternative uses for old wood, metal,pplastic and untensils etc.

Had many conversations on exactly what your post is about on that very holiday, some folk understand you, but not all.

This is my favourite piece of recycling that we saw on the same holiday.

[posie]

Originally Posted by BloomingMarvellous

Had many conversations on exactly what your post is about on that very holiday, some folk understand you, but not all.

This is my favourite piece of recycling that we saw on the same holiday.

I love the pic BM. Although I am a Southerner, I like to think that I belong to the 'Waste Not Want Not' brigade. It's also a matter of having a good imagination I think. My Grandparents and Parents programmed me in the 'Old Ways' and those ways stay with me. I don't think the children of today take so much on board from their parents as we did, maybe because so many Mothers work now and a) in some cases have more spendable income so less need to be frugal, and b)in some cases they don't have the time to either fiddle about recycling, or spend teaching the children about frugallity, because they go to work.(Vicious circle?) I for one am not comfortable living in this 'throwaway society', but hopefully, this recession will bring a lot of people back to being less wasteful..(Every cloud has a silver lining)..Posie.

[GOW]

Excellent. I am a keen gardener if I ever see bread bins at car boot sales or in charity shops I buy them and grow veg in them. Last year it was salad crops.