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storage of materials: recycle!!

updated fri 18 jun 99

 

Janet Kaiser on mon 14 jun 99

The message about plastic containers being the ideal storage solution for
glaze materials has been well documented/answered the past couple of days.

What I find somewhat worrying, was the number of "go out and buy" answers
vs. "use old jars, containers, fast food wrapping you would usually trash"
kind of advice.

Does recycling in the home/studio/workshop hardly ever happen in the US? Or
is it really the use-and-throw-away society we are lead to believe it is?

Janet Kaiser
With the heating still on because it is so cold and damp still mid-June. So
I should keep my mouth shut about wastage, except I just walked a mile to
take glass jars and newspapers to the recycling igloos in town.

The Chapel of Art, Criccieth, GB-Wales
Home of The International Potters Path
Email: postbox@the-coa.org.uk
URL: http://www.the-coa.org.uk

the Gallaghers on wed 16 jun 99

I agreee about the recycling issue, but if you must buy, buy second hand, it
is another way of recycling.

Michelle
-----Original Message-----
From: Janet Kaiser
To: CLAYART@LSV.UKY.EDU
Date: Monday, June 14, 1999 2:55 PM
Subject: Storage of Materials: RECYCLE!!


>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>The message about plastic containers being the ideal storage solution for
>glaze materials has been well documented/answered the past couple of days.
>
>What I find somewhat worrying, was the number of "go out and buy" answers
>vs. "use old jars, containers, fast food wrapping you would usually trash"
>kind of advice.
>
>Does recycling in the home/studio/workshop hardly ever happen in the US? Or
>is it really the use-and-throw-away society we are lead to believe it is?
>
>Janet Kaiser
>With the heating still on because it is so cold and damp still mid-June. So
>I should keep my mouth shut about wastage, except I just walked a mile to
>take glass jars and newspapers to the recycling igloos in town.
>
>The Chapel of Art, Criccieth, GB-Wales
>Home of The International Potters Path
>Email: postbox@the-coa.org.uk
>URL: http://www.the-coa.org.uk

Bobbi Bassett on wed 16 jun 99

In a message dated 6/14/99 5:55:20 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
janet@the-chapel-of-art.freeserve.co.uk writes:

>
> Does recycling in the home/studio/workshop hardly ever happen in the US? Or
> is it really the use-and-throw-away society we are lead to believe it is?
>
Janet

I think you are being misled. Most of the potters I know are FRUGAL to a
fault. We exchange ideas on using, reusing and reusing. The containers that
hold my small batch chemicals were all retrieved from the "rear" of a fast
food restaurant. The buckets that hold glazes used to hold joint cement or
some such thing. I make tools from Formica samples and bamboo tomato stakes
and...... Many of the necessary items in the studio are from yard sales and
the Salvation Army thrift shops. Old household towels are recycled to hand
towels in the studio. I wrap in used bubble wrap, pack in used foam "peanuts
and ship in scavenged boxes.

I know I've missed a hundred or so other examples. It's almost midnight and
it's been a long glazing day here. I just had to defend potters in the US.
We, for the most part, don't throw much of anything away. I think my old
modem will even find its way into a sculpture.

Muddy as ever
Bobbi in PA

Jeff Seefeldt on thu 17 jun 99

this probably doesn't fit with the post about recycling at all, but I found
buckets of pickles and saurkraut at a grocery distrubutors outlet (surplus,
scratch and dent) store.

they only cost $1.00 much cheaper than WalMart!!

come on over for brats within the next few days, otherwise its all going to the
compost bin.

Bobbi Bassett wrote:

> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> In a message dated 6/14/99 5:55:20 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> janet@the-chapel-of-art.freeserve.co.uk writes:
>
> >
> > Does recycling in the home/studio/workshop hardly ever happen in the US? Or
> > is it really the use-and-throw-away society we are lead to believe it is?
> >
> Janet
>
> I think you are being misled. Most of the potters I know are FRUGAL to a
> fault. We exchange ideas on using, reusing and reusing. The containers that
> hold my small batch chemicals were all retrieved from the "rear" of a fast
> food restaurant. The buckets that hold glazes used to hold joint cement or
> some such thing. I make tools from Formica samples and bamboo tomato stakes
> and...... Many of the necessary items in the studio are from yard sales and
> the Salvation Army thrift shops. Old household towels are recycled to hand
> towels in the studio. I wrap in used bubble wrap, pack in used foam "peanuts
> and ship in scavenged boxes.
>
> I know I've missed a hundred or so other examples. It's almost midnight and
> it's been a long glazing day here. I just had to defend potters in the US.
> We, for the most part, don't throw much of anything away. I think my old
> modem will even find its way into a sculpture.
>
> Muddy as ever
> Bobbi in PA

Woods on thu 17 jun 99

Hi, I am Sue Woods. I am pretty new on the Clay Art list. I saw this post
about recycling and could really relate. I am in Northern WI and we still
have the old fashioned dumps here (in spots). Even the new recycling centers
are likened to the old dumps where the attendant keeps anything remotely
usable over to the side. The studio I am fixing up is an old two story
house. Some of which is a log cabin nearly 125 years old. Another part of
the house is log about 80 years lod and the rest is frame about 50 years
old. I have fixed all the windows that were shot out with old windows from
the recycling center. All my shelves are things that others have left for
dead at the recycling center. I am in the process of recycling an old
electric kiln into a Raku kiln. The stand I am welding (I am presently
taking a class to get this accomplished) is being made of mostly recycled
materials. Even the wheels are from a recycles grass seed spreader. All the
plastic pails I use have come from the bakery, ice cream shop or the
recycling center. I have 5 tables I have in the studio. 1 is a round cable
holder from the utility co., 2 are from the recycling center that I built
new legs on and 2 are doors set on chairs that were in the old house when I
bought this place. My burning barrels are from the recycling center. My clay
tools are mostly from second hand stores like St. Vincents and Goodwill. The
same with things I use to impress the clay with. That is just in my clay
world. My whole worldly life is made up of found objects. My house is
decorated in 'early american friends' and 'colonial curb'. I wouldn't have
it any other way. Everything has a memory, story or just plain good vibes. I
even make quilts out of recycled clothing. And like Pam I use recycled
boxes, peanuts and bubble wrap and shredded paper from the recycling center.
I raise Pomeranian puppies and guess where the newspaper comes from? I also
use old print for Raku. Even my kitchen scrapes go into the compose bins I
made from used pallets. Needless to say I am not your typical material girl.
I get by on less than $600.00 a month income. It is a shame that the world
views us (all) as wastfull gluttons, here in the USA. Sue
-----Original Message-----
From: Bobbi Bassett
To: CLAYART@LSV.UKY.EDU
Date: Wednesday, June 16, 1999 8:21 AM
Subject: Re: Storage of Materials: RECYCLE!!


>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>In a message dated 6/14/99 5:55:20 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>janet@the-chapel-of-art.freeserve.co.uk writes:
>
>>
>> Does recycling in the home/studio/workshop hardly ever happen in the US?
Or
>> is it really the use-and-throw-away society we are lead to believe it
is?
>>
>Janet
>
>I think you are being misled. Most of the potters I know are FRUGAL to a
>fault. We exchange ideas on using, reusing and reusing. The containers that
>hold my small batch chemicals were all retrieved from the "rear" of a fast
>food restaurant. The buckets that hold glazes used to hold joint cement or
>some such thing. I make tools from Formica samples and bamboo tomato stakes
>and...... Many of the necessary items in the studio are from yard sales
and
>the Salvation Army thrift shops. Old household towels are recycled to hand
>towels in the studio. I wrap in used bubble wrap, pack in used foam
"peanuts
>and ship in scavenged boxes.
>
>I know I've missed a hundred or so other examples. It's almost midnight and
>it's been a long glazing day here. I just had to defend potters in the US.
>We, for the most part, don't throw much of anything away. I think my old
>modem will even find its way into a sculpture.
>
>Muddy as ever
>Bobbi in PA