We are redecorating. Our youngest daughter is making wedding plans, and we are turning her bedroom into a guest room. The trouble is we are no good at this sort of thing and it is taking us ages. It is also raising issues about recycling that we see on a much larger scale in skips all over the city.
Because of the zero waste challenge I am painstakingly separating the bits of old coving (expanded poystyrene) from the wallpaper (green bin), the old screws (recyclable?) from the old rawlplugs (landfill). But what about painted wood? This is a question for 'Ask Victoria', but I do wonder if it can be used in woodburning stoves without polluting the air. We only have a few batons, but there are tons of the stuff being produced every time people move house or redecorate.
This has also lead me to think about how we can enable small building firms to recycle their rubbish. It is very labour intensive. Time is money for them, after all, and we cannot expect them to do what I am doing.
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That's the problem with paint. Recycling and re-use is almost impossible. I wonder how ecologically-friendly having wood "dipped" is.
It makes me glad that I've just installed wood worktops that are oiled, rather than varnished, or laminated in some plastic.
They'll last over 100 years if looked after, and if someone horrible rips them out, then they could easily be re-used... or finally, burned in a stove.
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