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B RILLIA NT- ON LIN E AUGUS T 2021
CREATIVE WAYS TO REPURPOSE FALLEN TREES ✦ Accomplished Tree Management has some great ideas on how you can repurpose your fallen tree to curate a range of practical, unique and inspiring home and garden solutions.
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s we collectively strive to move to a more sustainable world, recycling has become more of a pre-requisite than a habit adhered to by a conscious few. Be it plastics, textiles, clothes, paper, glass, the list of recyclable goods continues to grow as we become increasingly aware of and concerned with our planet’s plight. Likewise, the practice of upcycling by converting old or discarded materials into something useful and often beautiful continues to grow. Wood is one such material that is increasingly finding new and creative ways to be utilised after the tree it has come from has fallen. Trees are magnificent, grand beings that play a vital role in balancing our eco-system. They provide oxygen and limit carbon in the atmosphere. They reduce air pollution, provide food and shelter for wildlife, minimise erosion and maintain healthy soil, increase rainfall, and absorb sunlight as energy. They effectively absorb harmful gases such as sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide and nitrogen dioxide. Trees often appear timeless, ageing back centuries. They carry a certain nobility in their very being, standing tall, watching all below and around them – each one with a story to tell.
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✳ “Ancient trees are precious. There is little else on Earth that plays host to such a rich community of life within a single living organism.” - Sir David Attenborough
Inevitably, however, trees fall, be it naturally or out of choice. In a country like Australia there are, of course, a myriad of challenges faced by natural disasters where trees, inevitably, become innocent victims. The devastating floods experienced locally in Port Macquarie and surrounding areas earlier this year are a prime example where a significant number of trees were compromised. Similarly, trees often need to be felled for safety reasons, or they become collateral damage when expanding a property or development.
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