Don't Throw That Out!

If there's one thing Galicians know how to do, it's recycling. Having never had over-many means to obtain the real thing, we make do with whatever's lying in the barn. There is a section in the largest online regional newspaper that is quite illustrative of our ability to reuse what was never meant to be reused. Chapuzas Gallegas is the name of the section in La Voz de Galicia. I can attest to some of those recyclings. Down the road there is a bus stop with a bench that the local kids use to hang out. To make it more comfortable, they found foam from old cushions and old fabric from something else, and upholstered the bench in their free time. It's not professional, but it's more comfortable. 

Apart from that, I've also seen the usual somier used as a gate.
 
      
Old washing machine drums are also recycled, being used from pots for plants to portable barbecues.
 
      

Old refrigerators also double as boxes for the baker to deliver the daily bread.

 

An old satellite dish will keep the hay dry.
 


An old, emptied extinguisher is aptly reused as an ashtray.
 
 

And there are scarecrows that scare the bejesus out of more than just the crows. Chucky has nothing on this guy.

    

Yup. Galicians believe in recycling. Waste not, want not.

(All images from the digital newspaper La Voz de Galicia.)