Between homeschooling and having one's own business, the sheer amount of paper that can accumulate is astonishing. I wish we were paperless, but the reality is that while we have been able to reduce our paper needs, paper is still a very real part of our lives.
Yes, we could recycle (well, we could if our tiny town had a recycling center), but what we do use it for is sheet mulching. At ileast once, and often twice per year, I shovel the composted goodness, put down new paper or cardboard, and remulch with whatever material is available at the moment. I did my shovel work back in Jan, but never got around to the mulch part. Last Friday was the day.
Normally we don't get the newspaper, but Dave's Dad purchased a year subscription to the Wall Steet Journal, which has been very nice for the children to be exposed to, and perfect for mulch! However, most of that got used as part of the new beds around the herb spiral. I did use the rest of what we had, and then pulled out the 2 boxes of school work that the children had done but that I didn't need to save and proceeded to line the pathways.
I then emptied the bags of leaves that we picked up from the side of the road. We have plenty of woods to gather from, but I'd hate to deprive the poor woods of it's mulch when someone so nicely bagged up leaves for me. (Besides, the trash collector won't collect the leaves, so someone has to get them).
In a few minutes time, about 8 months of worksheets, handwriting, math, and junk mail is on it's way to this fall's composted mulch! It's one of the ways the we reuse and recycle here on the little homestead.
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