By Sean Fagan
Discarded grill in the woods - this will make a very nice pot & pan cooking platform for myself when camping (Photo: Sean Fagan).
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I'm often a happy fiend when it comes to recycling other people's rubbish left in nature.
I guess it's one way of turning a negative into a positive.
Creatively using man-made objects found in the wild also flexes & strengthens our ability to improvise - an essential component of bushcraft & survival...
If I'm ever thrust into a survival situation in a remote location and there is man-made objects to hand - there is a very good chance I'll quickly and efficiently use such materials in a creative, possibly life-saving manner.
Why? because I'm familiar with improvising with man-made materials.
And that familiarity can make all the difference.
Of course not all rubbish can be creatively recycled - but a lot of it can.
Only a dogmatic bushcraft purist would insist on exclusively using natural materials in the wild.
I mostly use natural materials in the wild - but when I come across some man-made materials left I often revel at the opportunity to put it to some good.
And sure why not? It's fun...
...and a viable bushcraft & survival skill.
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"In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed"
Charles Darwin
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