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From: San Francisco, Ca.
Don't laugh, but when I buy a box of cereal, when finished, I use the box as a container for recycling papers and use the box liner as a trash liner in my waste basket.
Then every week , it goes into the appropiate trash can for the weekly pick-up.
I save certain plastic containers for food/beverage storage; such as the big plastic mayo containers or the 1/2 gallon size of pasta/spagetti sause.
I have about 6 of the gator-aide bottles (pints/quarts size) and re-use them as water bottles
I do do wash them very thoroughly at every water change.
If I'm going to get charged for them, then I'm going to use them
JMO
Then every week , it goes into the appropiate trash can for the weekly pick-up.
I save certain plastic containers for food/beverage storage; such as the big plastic mayo containers or the 1/2 gallon size of pasta/spagetti sause.
I have about 6 of the gator-aide bottles (pints/quarts size) and re-use them as water bottles
I do do wash them very thoroughly at every water change.
If I'm going to get charged for them, then I'm going to use them
JMO
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From: Drummonds, TN USA
A big chunk of the price of anything canned or bottled is the cost of the container itself, so it pays to look at the container and think of ways to make use of it.
I found that buying canned goods in food-service sizes works well, coffee-can lids can be used to seal them in the fridge and they make good paintmixing buckets, not tomention several other uses.
Food scraps go into the garden, paper and cardboard are used to light piles of dead branches out back. Plastic is crushed and bagged for the landfill. Bottles and jars I have no use for I'm considering options on, but for now are landfill waste.
I thought about making glass, but it may not be the right kind of glass to do that with. I wonder what I could make a mold out of to form glass bricks? There's plenty of firewood around, if I ever came up with a way to build an oven for it.
In a perfect arrangement, every bit of household waste would be reused in some way. But how many people have the means to melt metal and glass, or refine plastic?
Plastic containers I avoid, by the way. Also aluminum ones.
I found that buying canned goods in food-service sizes works well, coffee-can lids can be used to seal them in the fridge and they make good paintmixing buckets, not tomention several other uses.
Food scraps go into the garden, paper and cardboard are used to light piles of dead branches out back. Plastic is crushed and bagged for the landfill. Bottles and jars I have no use for I'm considering options on, but for now are landfill waste.
I thought about making glass, but it may not be the right kind of glass to do that with. I wonder what I could make a mold out of to form glass bricks? There's plenty of firewood around, if I ever came up with a way to build an oven for it.
In a perfect arrangement, every bit of household waste would be reused in some way. But how many people have the means to melt metal and glass, or refine plastic?
Plastic containers I avoid, by the way. Also aluminum ones.
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