Reduce
We have drastically reduced the amount of water we use by having dry toilets, by using recycled water to irrigate our gardens and by only having gravity-fed water from a storage tank. 1 bar of pressure is perfectly adequate for washing, showering etc yet here in Montenegro the water pressure is piped at up to 6 bar in places. This means every turn of the tap wastes water!
Re-use
We are on a mission to use things that are routinely thrown away every day. There is no glass recycling scheme in Montenegro so we re-used 100’s of green bottles in our Bottle Windows. We re-used old railway sleepers to build steps and raised gardens and spent weeks collecting palm leaves trimmed in the local towns (that would otherwise be burned) to use for screening.
Recycle
All our kitchen and garden waste is composted on site . Our compost toilet chambers recycle "Humanure" into compost and liquid fertilizer for the gardens. Plastic bags are cut and plaited into "plarn" (plastic yarn) and used as rope or string. All our cardboard, metal and plastic waste is taken to the municipal recycling centre.
Reduce, Re-use, Recycle
