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Accidentally I discovered cats love batting around small balls made from scraps of alumin[i]um foil. [I suppose it's well known.]
Making these and bagging them, would be a good activity for a sheltered workshop I have helped occasionally with similar ideas.
The halfbaked bit is that I don't
know which industries generate enough scrap foil to keep a team busy continuously.
The Materials Exchange News didn't help and I hate the small print columns in the phone books.
Any info would be welcome.
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My junior cat particularly enjoys the crumpled-up foil off the top of a Pringles tube.
You could use foil that a roast had been wrapped in. |
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try the aluminium foil industry, or you could rely on earth-conscious enviro-types to make regular donations, since they're going to put the scraps into the recycling bin anyway. |
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For this kind of hands-on re-use the source-material has to be clean, allergy-free and in steady-flow supply. |
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These requirements rule out most if not all of the recycle-bin stuff. |
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In fact certain aspects of the giant "waste" industry have hindered not helped, the tiny sheltered workshops movement. |
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Even the otherwise commendable "Zero Waste" movement is, by definition, reducing the amount and variety of materials suitable for use by the workshops. |
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And there's more "both and" stuff. |
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The immense success of the Paralympics is involving disabled people in exciting year-round activity - thus taking both sponsor-funding and staff away from the non-sexy workshops. |
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I know I'm rubbishing my own posting, but I didn't think it through when I started did I? |
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i quite like fly tips and other such places which other people find horrible,because they are sometimes/often a good source of materials.
find a broken caravan |
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Not as good as wrapping your head in the stuff and playing Robotman. But good. |
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Or as good as wrapping your entire self in it and playing Cat Toy. But passable. |
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rayfo: Here in the paunch of Oregon a bunch of hippies started taking in junk--especially old windows, boards, doors, bicycle parts, sinks--that thrift stores generally don't handle, and selling it cheaply. It's great for certain kinds of tinkering. |
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(Doesn't do much for aluminum-foil cat toys, but I wish I could take you through the place. Serious stuff for the underfunded inventor.) |
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What happens if the kitty eats a bit of the foil? Surely the sharp edges cant be healthy. |
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Ever chewed on tinfoil? Not fun. Cats would not want to chew on it long enough to make any pieces come loose... |
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