Everyone's trying to reduce their carbon footprint, but if you've chosen Skegness over the Seychelles this year and already traded in your Chelsea Tractor for a 2-stroke moped, the next thing to consider might be a recycled home. We look at some of the materials you can use and where to find them.
As well as the ubiquitous shopping trolley poking out of the mudflats, river banks can be a fantastic place to pick up abandoned junk just aching to be cleaned up and recycled. Scrap metal often finds a home where boats moor up, but consider using a lot of one thing well, rather than just anything you can lay your hands on.
Tyres are beginning to be seen as valuable building materials, and with 48 million car and van tyres dumped every year there are plenty to go around. Tyres cost about £1.50 each to dispose of so they'll be freely available from your local car dealer. They're excellent insulators too and can be packed around with all manner of other garbage to create a warm and cosy finish.
If you prefer to build using something more solid you can still make use of recycled goods. Head down to your local stonemasons and ask for any off-cuts they might have. Gravestones can provide a great source of cheap building materials, though kitchen surfaces might be a little less creepy.
Bottles, strangely enough, can also provide a solid building material. They can act like glass bricks when constructed properly and the different colours can give the appearance of a stained glass window for a fraction of the cost.
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