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Posted by jcv113 7 (My Page) on Thu, Mar 9, 06 at 18:02
I drink my OJ from an 11 oz plastic squeeze bottle. I hate to throw these away. Can anyone think of a use for them?
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RE: plastic bottles
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| I have an aversion to saving plastic stuff....so I say throw them away. I know that many people store plastic stuff just like it was expensive tupperware and occasionally I am tempted but after having kitchen drawers, shelves full of that junk for so many years, I started tossing and now I buy, when needed, freezer cartons...easier to store, they stack neatly and don't take up a lot of room etc etc... and I don't have tons of plastic junk in my kitchen...I always could think of a dozen uses for say a yogurt container...ugh...I toss those things now with the bat of an eye now. |
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| Ha Ha I guess I didn't answer your question did I? forgive the soap box diatribe, can you tell I just hate plastic....Sorry I got so carried away.. |
RE: plastic bottles
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| I was buying the squeeze bottles of orange juice for DH, and he wanted to know why I didn't buy the large jugs and he would refill them. So that's what I did. We recycle them every so often. He also freezes a couple with water in them. |
RE: plastic bottles
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You might could use them to make "cloches" for protecting early plantings.
I also save 2L bottles and fill with water - to have on hand in case power/water goes out during disasters (snow, hurricanes, etc.). Even here in the south, during blizzard of 1993, we lost water.
I put some of the 2L bottles and gallon jugs of water in the deep freeze to conserve energy. |
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| You could use the plastic juice bottles to sow individual seeds into. Anytime we can recycle plastic one more time before we throw it away, I think it's a good thing. I agree with ruthieg. I hate having tons of plastic tubs and containers in my kitchen, so I toss containers that margarine, yogurt, etc, comes in, into a plastic garbage bag and store them in my shed for sowing seeds. Saves on buying those little pots and keeps my plastic from the landfills for one more day/month/year. |
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| i use 2-liter bottles to water my tomato plants. i place them upside-down on top of spikey cones that have holes drilled into them. you fill a 2-liter bottle with water, screw it onto a spike, and then jam the spike with the upturned bottle into the soil next to your tomato (or whatever) plant. i use the small pop/soda bottles with screw-on perforated lids that can be used for watering plants. pat
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