Another Home Project Using Recycled and Found Objects

Here’s another project finished!




This is a fence panel that blew down before Thanksgiving. As always, it took longer than I had anticipated; I needed to find some posts, waterproof them, and set them. Then I had to design the whole thing according to the materials on hand, taking into account the deficiencies and inadequacies and quirkiness of those materials. During the period when the whole thing was tossed akimbo on my lawn, several people commented on how nice it was to have it opened to the other parts of my yard. I got comments like “I didn’t know that whole back area was so pretty”, and “You’d better not close off the energy flow.” Who says I don’t listen.

So, with a found gate and re-apportioned hardware, portions of the old fence, a stout beam too short for anything structural, some telephone wire ceramic resistors, a box of screws (new), and about 10 Mondays (maybe 8 actual hours of labor), I present to you my new Chinese New Year, Feng shui-kosher gate to the outside world.

C and D Recycling

Soilutions, Inc., a compost facility and organics recycler in the South Valley of Albuquerque, will stop accepting construction lumber as of March 30 2011.

Due to the high cost of processing, long labor hours cleaning the material of contaminates, and a lack of end market for the finished product, we are forced to stop receiving construction lumber from many LEED new construction projects. This will affect nearly twenty contractors and at least two major haulers. We currently accept about 3000 cubic yards a month.

Until we can find a market for the finished material, there just isn't any financial reason to keep accepting it.

Materials range from coarsely ground chunks to uniformly screened mulches. Some of the finished products meet the NMDOT specifications for mulch and mulch logs and are on the state's approved product list. Many are competitively priced.

Uses for the material include decorative mulch for the urban gardener, erosion control, SWPPP implementation, and NMDOT applications.