09-22-2008, 07:40 AM
Use wooden or plastic crates that stack and get ya one of those collapsible two wheeled dollies.
Bring an ice chest for your meat and diary. That can go on top.
Raise your own chickens and ducks. Duck are better as they are better foragers. Khaki Campbells lay up to 300 eggs per year. Eat all the Drakes. Get a muskovy hen to sit the eggs as they are better brooders
When you buy something that is wrapped in plastic, throw the wrapper away at the store. Only bring home paper and cardboard that will go in your compost heap.
Save all cans and reuse them as planters for starting plants. As they rust out have a separate compost pile for them to oxidize and leech their iron into the pile.
Buy only 100% cotton clothes and make quilts from the remnants and compost the cotton after use.
Never buy new glasses, you can reuse glass jars for drinking.
Never throw away string, foil, rubber bands or anything that you can reuse.
You can save cans and cut them up for many things like shingles for you chicken coop.
There is no end ways to reuse and recycle by yourself, but with the exception of aluminum and lead batteries recycling on a mass scale creates more environmental pollution than it is worth.
Bring an ice chest for your meat and diary. That can go on top.
Raise your own chickens and ducks. Duck are better as they are better foragers. Khaki Campbells lay up to 300 eggs per year. Eat all the Drakes. Get a muskovy hen to sit the eggs as they are better brooders
When you buy something that is wrapped in plastic, throw the wrapper away at the store. Only bring home paper and cardboard that will go in your compost heap.
Save all cans and reuse them as planters for starting plants. As they rust out have a separate compost pile for them to oxidize and leech their iron into the pile.
Buy only 100% cotton clothes and make quilts from the remnants and compost the cotton after use.
Never buy new glasses, you can reuse glass jars for drinking.
Never throw away string, foil, rubber bands or anything that you can reuse.
You can save cans and cut them up for many things like shingles for you chicken coop.
There is no end ways to reuse and recycle by yourself, but with the exception of aluminum and lead batteries recycling on a mass scale creates more environmental pollution than it is worth.