Less In The Recycling Bin!

Recycling Less...
I have noticed today just how empty my recycling bin is. I started to make my no-dig gardens and became excited about composting after (drumroll please) I discovered just how amazingly black and yummy the giant compost pile down the back of my garden is! We had been chucking stuff on it ever since we moved here two years ago and ignoring it.

I used to have to empty the recycling bin in my kitchen into the wheely council recycling bin each day. Now I'm using lots of my recyclables in the garden like this:
- paper, newspaper and cardboard makes my no-dig gardens and adds to the compost piles.
- tin cans, milk cartons, and almost all plastic containers are used as pots for my obsession for cuttings. (I wonder is there a name for that obsession? Snipper?)

With all of our scraps going into the compost bucket, all the paper type rubbish going to the garden and the tins and plastics going to cuttings... I have so little actual garbage going into the bin! I feel like I want to rent out the bin space! :)
(can you HEAR the 'smug'?)
So, I'm recycling a lot less, or maybe I'm the recycler now?

Eggs...
This month I discovered a farm stall in my area that sells fresh eggs. I mean real, unpolished eggs that have been laid this week... unlike the puddles of sprog I've been buying at the supermarket. The farm stall eggs are just so delicious! I'm buying 30 eggs for $5. Bargain.