Recycling

With the aim of recycling as much as possible, we're striving for "zero waste" at home.  It focuses the mind to regard everything as a potential fuel for processing. 

• Old apple cores get processed by chickens into eggs
• leftover food gets added to dog-food
• used tissues get composted into a substrate to grow vegetables in...
• Anything that is combustible is processed by the stove into heat energy

So the only items which leave our property are things for which we don't have a processor: tins, glass, and batteries.  Here is a copy of the chart we keep on the fridge in the kitchen, just to keep everyone mindful of the opportunities offered by waste materials: