Landfill guilt

We finally managed to find time, the whole weekend to be precise, to sort out the shed. As it's the size of a single garage it's a huge shed and it had been left full of the previous owners stuff - some very useful (such as a back door and laminate flooring that we've put to good use) and some not so (An exercise treadmill!).

After sorting the contents and retaining what we wanted to keep we then had another eco dilemma - what should we do with the rubbish? It was time for the old goat house bonfire to be lit so any wood and cardboard was burned. Scrap metal was taken to the dump, along with rubble hardcore.

The usual shed supply of old paint pots and odd bottles of coloured liquids were the most difficult to get rid of. We made sure any oil was put in the oil collection at the dump but there seems to be no way of getting rid of unwanted paints etc. Did a check on Google but there are no cummunity paint recycle schemes near us so ended up (rather unsatifactorily) throwing the old paint into the general waste at the dump - we now feel guilty about adding to landfill. Surely there must be a better option...

There are still things to sort (and get rid of) including the treadmill but at least we can safely get in the shed now. Time to get Freecycling.