Good for you! We used to do the same and bring watermelons for the cannons. We also had some small reusable targets that the group smithie made out of metal that had a small pig, deer, chicken, and rabbit hanging on a frame. We usually used it for air rifle practice, but the occasional black powder pistol was fired at it, too. Shooting out the flame on a candle at night was pretty fun.
I guess one of the most fundamental things we need to do is make products that are made to be recycled and then start making it easier to recycle. A bottle made from one type of plastic, with a label made from a different type of plastic, and a top made from yet another kind of plastic just makes a mess. One would think that phenolic resin should be pretty reusable. Sorry, but I was watching a show last night where a lady spent an hour picking plastic out of the carcasses of a rare type of albatross on an island in the Hawaiian chain and then displaying it on the beach. It was a huge collection. There was a printhead with all of the cartridges from a printer and a large baby rattle with some kind of animal head, a handle, and some dangly things. Many lighters, combs, toothbrushes, small toys, and plenty of fishing paraphenalia. It was amazing to me that a bird could actually swallow some of that stuff. It was equally sickening to think of the thousands of poor birds that are eating all that plastic thinking its food and using it to feed their young.
