Archive for February, 2011
Chicken House Plans – Best Strategy For Controlling Oder and Recycling Waste
While the advantages of chicken keeping are obvious, we should not overlook one of the less pleasant aspects of the hobby. Chickens generate a fair amount of waste, and it is important to set up a way to clean and dispose of this waste in an efficient and responsible manner. Not only is keeping the coop clean important to the health of the chickens, but it also will ensure that any unpleasant odors will be minimized.
Chicken manure is a high quality fertilizer. So it makes perfect sense that it be collected and reused in the garden. A great strategy for dealing with waste if you are constructing a coop based on chicken house plans featuring a solid floor is to use the high fill method. Basically this entails filling the floor of the coop with 4-6 inches of pine shavings, and periodically raking the fresh manure into the bottom of the mix. Often a layer of food grade DE (diatomaceous earth) may be added to absorb excess moisture.
Can You Recycle Skip Waste?
With environmental issues increasingly come to the fore, the subject of recycling waste has become equally prominent for businesses and homeowners throughout the world. Knowing what can be recycled or reused isn’t always obvious though, so there is often confusion about getting rid of waste. This is particularly true when it comes to the large volumes thrown away when hiring a skip.
There are a fair few things that, with all the will in the world, just can’t be recycled. Then there are others that require specialist processes. Being able to differentiate isn’t always easy, particularly if you don’t deal with waste regularly.
Hiring a Waste Recycling Company Helps to Save the Planet
While you may think that you are not throwing out a lot of rubbish each week, you might want to do the maths. Say for example you place three bags of rubbish on the curb each week. That is 156 bags a week. Now let us say that there are two thousand homes in your city that each put out 156 bags of rubbish a year. That is a total of 312,000 bags of rubbish that go straight into the landfills. Now just imagine if you can the amount of waste that is collected each week from every home, office and business throughout the world. The number will probably shock you.
The thing is though, 75 percent of all of that rubbish that is being shoved into plastic bags and dumped in a landfill is recyclable material. According to the EPA, only 30 percent of what is recyclable material is recycled. While aluminum cans seem to be something that many people do recycle, there were still 55 billion cans that were either littered, incinerated or sent to the landfill instead of being recycled. This is an insane number of wasted cans that are hitting the earth instead of being recycled and made use of.