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Guide to Recycled Building Materials
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. 4Homes looks 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 if you want to avoid the pitfalls encountered by Chris and Sze, consider using a lot of one thing well, rather than just anything you can lay your hands on.
Burning Rubber
Or not as the case might be. Tyres are beginning to be seen as valuable building materials, and with 48 million car and van tyres dumped every year, there’s 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.
