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NOTrubbish is a not-for-profit community action enterprise. ... If we are to ever get a really dynamic, sustainable, socially relevant and multidimensional resource recovery system anywhere on this planet we must do one thing first. We need to stop imagining our waste as rubbish. We must stop thinking that there is an 'AWAY' where stuff can be thrown and forgotten about.

Monday, May 5, 2025

UNMILLABLE, UNUSEABLE, WOOD

“An imagination is a terrible thing to waste.” 

Karlyle Tomms 

Millable but this rubbish was not good enough except for FIREwood until 
someone imagined that this wood was NOTrubbish ... certainly not!
Seemingly there was a tree in this garden that was imagined as so much
rubbish until it was stacked up holding on to its carbon and providing a 
home for all the things that make gardens worthwhile.
Well yet again the trees that yielded this 'rubbish' were millable but there were
bits that were too expensive to deal with and too good for FIREwood until
someone spied something to be treasured and that was happy in a 
cultural landscape where it is NOTrubbish and indeed is treasured.
IF there is a need to remove trees and vegetation with carbon invested in it, well
there is no need to burn it because it is NOTrubbish and it can be seen as 
habitat on and be strategically ONcycled for that purpose right where it lived.
Some trees fall over and they are deemed unmillable useless rubbish for use in the big 
and important stuff in investment driven CULTURALlandscapes yet it is wondrous in 
so, so many ways. This wood is NOTrubbish, not so much FIREwood, and not in the 
way. It is a resource, a treasure trove and it needs to be banked.

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

Auguste Rodin 





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