Recycling the value of thriftiness
Norfolk grandfather turns his natural thriftiness into a new recycling business
At the same time as Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced the green economy would be a major part of the country's recovery plan, a 70 year-old Norfolk grandfather has turned his ‘make do and mend’ values into a new business.
Having grown up in a time when there was no such thing as recycling - it was simply a necessity not to waste things – Malcolm Porter has opened Third Hand Recycling, a business recycling unwanted building materials such as bricks, timber, nails and screws to be reused by the public.
A master builder for 45 years, Mr Porter is keen to provide the service to stop things from going to landfill. Selling the old materials on at starting prices as low as 5p, the aim is to help people get cheaper materials for projects they’re working on as well as re-using things that would otherwise be wasted.
