Or rather filling them!

The Eastham Recycling Center on the Outer Cape Railway is almost complete.  Pictures will follow my vacation.  But now I need the wisdom and advice of the members.

How to fill them. One will be paper and cardboard.  That's easy.  But I want one to be bottles and cans/tins, and another to be black (bin-liner) bags of household garbage.

Any suggestions very gratefully received.  By the way I've tried reducing photos but they look naff.  No, this has got to be 3D waste!

Hi Tim.  Our recycling depots usually have a place where people can dump vegetation for chipping as well. 

A full bin bag is about 2'6" to 3' high, in a teardrop shape.

How about using old foil tablet trays ( the sort you push the tablets out through the foil) as a mould, putting drops of pva glue into each tablet space, then when dry painting each black ?

For tins, you could paint cocktail sticks in suitable colours ( eg red for coke), then cut the sticks into lengths. The exposed wood could be touched up with silver.
HTH
Stu

Hi Stu.  A couple of guys use HTH as a sign off.  I can't work it out.  Can you tell me what it stands for?  Sorry Tim, but I thought I'd ask next time I saw it.  :oops:

Max
HTH
http://www.internetslang.com/HTH.asp

Thanks, Sol.   IHAITMF    (I've added it to my favourites.)  

I didn't realise there were two phrases ! My intention was definitely "Hope that helps" !

Stu

Good trick with the drink cans, Stu.

[user=269]MaxSouthOz[/user] wrote:

Hi Stu.  A couple of guys use HTH as a sign off.  I can't work it out.  Can you tell me what it stands for?  Sorry Tim, but I thought I'd ask next time I saw it.  :oops:

Hope This Helps.

Jim Smith-Wright of this parish illustrated a coke can made from a short length of cut wire with a red sleeve and the ends painted silver.  The same could be done with many different (and possibly scrap) offcuts of wire since it is available in so many coloured sleeves.  Green and brown in slightly longer lengths might be bottles.

A touch or two with the mapping pen or similar instrument would represent the printing if required.

I haven't tried this but for the bin bags try small blobs of papier maché painted in the required colour.  Full bags are not that small in 00 and might be around 5mm or so.

Thanks!  Some good tips there.  (And I'm now going to include some vegetation!)

Bin bags, flour sacks, coal sacks, grain sacks etc., are easy to make with Milliput.

Just roll into an appropriate sized sausage and cut to suit.
Often that's enough to do the trick but, if not, some poking with a cocktail stick or similar will soon push it into shape.

I may have pics of previous work - I'll go and look.

Here's a few:

(Click to enlarge)