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- Landscape
materials
- Landscaping offers a huge
range of opportunities to use recycled materials -bricks, pavings,
railway sleepers and many other materials can be creatively reused.
Visit our page on architectural
salvage to find local suppliers of secondhand building materials.
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- Other possibilities are presented
by the use of natural and renewable materials -walls of rammed
earth, stone gabions or using car tyres for exmple.
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- The things to avoid are materials
that have a high embodied energy -for example if they have been
transported halfway round the world -landscaping materials tend
to be bulky and heavy and the implications of long distance transport
are more significant.
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- Dunweedin -make garden products from recycled
tyres -rubber crumb for lawns, rubber chippings for landscape
and play areas.
- Enviroglass -owned and operated by Shetland Amenity
Trust, Enviroglass manufacture decorative pavers from recycled
glass.
- Lankhorst
Recycling -pioneer
in recycled plastic for decking, bollards and retaining walls.
- Reformed Plastic
-make fencing and decking from recycled plastic.
- Tay Clay Tiles
-quality interior and exterior terracotta flooring.
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- Sleepers:
- RailwaySleeper.com -as well as supplying sleepers from their Nottingham
depot, they offer a wealth of useful ideas on what to do with
secondhand sleepers
- Sleeper Supplies
- new and used railway sleepers, crossing timbers and Telegraph
poles from their yard near Doncaster.
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- Furniture
- Reel Furniture
-eco-friendly furniture and housewares crafted from recycled
timber.
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- rammed earth, gabion
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