Being Green

Actually, it's easier than it's made out to be. Here, for example, are some of the things we do to keep green:

1. Composting: We have, as you've probably guessed from my last post, a compost bin. And, as compost bins go, it's a pretty good one. You put garden waste in one end and (eventually) lovely, nutrient rich compost comes out the other. But you probably knew that. What you probably didn't know is my 3 Interesting Things you can Do with your Compost Bin. They are:
   1. With only some ping pong balls, an egg whisk, a sink plunger, a broom handle, a broken web cam and some imagination, you can make it into a Dalek.
   2. You can harvest flies from it to feed your pet tarantula (if you have one).
   3. You can, at the right temperature, grow mushrooms of varying toxicity in it.
   But most importantly, you can improve your green credentials. Would you rather let your clippings rot into an insubstantial, useless and foul smelling mush at the bottom of a landfill site, or let them rot into a more substantial and useful (although admittedly still foul smelling) mush at the bottom of your compost bin? Waste them or use them? The choice is yours.
2. Recycling: This is the biggie of all environmental issues, the one that pressure groups always nag you about. And with good reason. It takes a lorra lorra metal and energy to produce a can, and we haven't got an infinite supply of it. Sure, we can get energy from sustainable sources such as wind farms, but where the heck are we going to get all that metal from? Recycling! You've seen the adverts: Your can could end up as a plane, train, automobile etc. Now isn't that exciting? Well, not particularly, but at least it means we use a lot less metal. Not, of course, that it's just metal you can recycle. Paper, glass, plastic, those magic little men at the council will take anything and turn it into anything else. Or, if you like your rubbish, you can reuse it. Put all you ingredients into plastic bottles. Get your children into junk modelling. Donate your old clothes, toys, pets, unwanted kids etc. to charity. Do anything, but don't throw it into a landfill site!
3. Anything else you can think of: You know the sort of thing I mean: Drive less, buy organic, don't buy peat. It all adds up to a better planet.