Nowadays, environmentally conscious and eco-friendly people who enjoy cultivating and designing their outdoor spaces are spoilt for choice when filling their back garden with recycled elements. With this in mind, here is a comprehensive guide to help you design your outdoor space using mostly eco-friendly and recycled composite elements.
Composite Decking Boards
Essentially, composite decking is a manufactured construction material created from a tiny amount of specialised bonding agents, wooden fibres, and plastic fibres.
Composite decking boards are therefore perfect for utilising a wide range of garden elements as they are simultaneously aesthetically stunning and incredibly durable. Use your favourite colours in composite decking boards to create garden shelving, bird feeders, and houses and, if you are particularly confident in your DIY skills, you can even use composite decking boards to construct garden chairs.
Composite Fencing
Composite fencing is a strong, solid, and incredibly durable alternative to traditional wooden fencing. The composite fence panels are available in a wide array of colours. These are entirely waterproof and moisture resistant and can be drilled, cut, and fastened just like wood. They make the perfect eco-friendly border to the back garden.
Using composite fence panels will result in a welcome and altogether significant reduction in the level of maintenance needed. Unlike wood, composite panels never split or need replacing due to the harsh elements of British weather.
Composite Planters & Garden Beds
Purchase a wide range of garden products from companies such as eComposite Products that can be used in various ways and are incredibly malleable with high levels of adaptability. Composite decking panels can be repurposed to create beautiful garden planters and raised flower beds or set down onto the grass or turf to create a durable and long-lasting pathway through your garden.
Composite Children’s Playhouses
Composite decking panels are not entirely suitable to create the structural shell of a playhouse or any structure for that matter, but what they can do is create colourful and beautiful accessories and extra elements within a sturdily built wooden playhouse.
Composite panels can be used to make children’s tables and chairs within the playhouse and provide the perfect texture and aesthetically sound materials for a slide or swings around the playhouse. Children will love the look of the creations you make and adore playing with them.
Eco-Friendly Garden Ideas
There are a wide plethora of ways to ensure your back garden is as eco-friendly and sustainable as possible. There is a severe decline in the number of pollinating insects in the United Kingdom, particularly the bumblebee, and a relatively simple and affordable way of helping to counteract this decline is to plant a range of bee-friendly flowers and plants in your garden.
Other eco-friendly ideas include the addition of birdhouses and bat boxes, the conservation of water as much as is feasibly possible, the complete ban on the use of peat in your garden, planting a tree if you have room, and the cultivation of a vegetable patch or fruit trees to produce your own homegrown food products.
The Importance Of Eco-Friendly Thinking
Gone are the days when global warming was merely something that might happen in the future and when it was perfectly fine that recycling was just something a few people did when they could be bothered.
Now, especially in the wake of the devastating coronavirus pandemic of 2021, it is every single citizen of this country’s moral and ethical responsibility to shop sustainably, endeavour to only buy materials and products that are made out of recycled materials, reduce the amount of food waste you and your family produce, totally avoid single-use plastic and to basically do everything they possibly can for their and their family’s future and the welfare of the environment and planet as a whole.
Other useful and relatively simples change you can make to your daily life to reduce your carbon footprint include making your family home as efficient as possible by choosing energy-efficient lightbulbs, encouraging the use of public transport, planting a vegetable garden to grow and consume your own food, using fully compostable dog bags and always refusing the offer of a plastic bag in supermarkets, instead of bringing your own reusable, canvas alternative.
