recycle my milk bottle......

boredjellybean

Hi there

I know you lovely OS'rs will be able to help me, I get through pints & pints of milk a week & I can not stand throwing all the bottles in the bin (even if it is the recycling) can you please bombard me with suggestions of how I can reuse them, I seem to remember seeing something once where you cut them down & use as scoops & another there you cut them down & store things like nails, screw, nuts & bolts but there must be so many more ways to use them?

Many thanks

Sarah xx

valk_scot

In the garden I use milk bottles for...

Scoops

Plant pots (punch a couple of holes in the bottom) Tall thin ones for sweetcorn, tall fat ones for herbs or young tomato plants, cut lengthways for seed trays and seedling crops of cress and baby leaves.

Plant labels. (Use a universal waterproof marker)

Watering can. (Punch holes in lid)

Storing comfrey "tea" as fertiliser.



In the house I use them for.....

Chilling squash in the fridge.

Dry storage for beans and such when the packets split.

Shaking up batter mixes.

Bath toy for kids, with or without holes punched in lids.

Indoor skittles for kids (the tall thin bottles, put a few beans or sand in the bottom to weight them)

Craft materials for kids...you can make Cyborg masks from the 4pt size.

Mixing up wallpaper paste.

Paint pots.

Disposable mixing bowls for plaster filler

Etc....

Pink.

This thread from the Green and Ethical board should help:

Uses for empty plastic milk "bottles"?

I'll move your thread over there later.

Pink

zippychick

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zeupater

Hi

I know it sounds a little 'old fashoned', but we still have our milk delivered fresh to the doorstep ... the nice milkman takes away the used bottles, they get washed and then they are reused, again, and again ... recycling at it's best ....

HTH
Z

SailorSam

Chop them in half for plant pots and the top half as mini-cloche to keep the slugs at bay.

PixieDust

zeupater wrote: »

Hi

I know it sounds a little 'old fashoned', but we still have our milk delivered fresh to the doorstep ... the nice milkman takes away the used bottles, they get washed and then they are reused, again, and again ... recycling at it's best ....

HTH
Z

I think it's lovely....but at 66p for 1 pint from our milkman compared with £1 for 4 pints from A$da I think I'm going to have to keep finding ways to use my plastic bottles. Would that things were different.

marmitepotato

I buy Juggit milk, only one little bag to go in the bin!

Ben84

marmitepotato wrote: »

I buy Juggit milk, only one little bag to go in the bin!

I was going to mention these too. I've been using them for some time now as they use less resources in manufacturing and take up less space in the rubbish.

It is also possible to wash and recycle them if you have access to a plastic bag recycling bin to put them in. How the environmental impacts of that work out however I don't honestly know. I do however like that they're 100% made from one material, making complete recycling of them easier.

tell01

i agree with the recycling of plastic milk bottles and empty tins but what i would like to know is the cost of rinsing these and empty tins before putting in recycle bin does it actually save anything when water is getting scarcer and costlier

davenport151

How come the price of milk from the milkman is seen as expensive when its at your door every morning, rain or shine (or snow). You dont have to struggle back from the supermarket with it. No leaky cartons. You save by not just popping to the shops for a pinta. The empties are taken away. The milk is much better quality than the supermarket ( I think so anyway).
People seem to prefer to go to the butchers & pay a little more for the quality of meat. This is exactly the same thing.

Oh yes its also delivered in a little electric milkfloat & comes from a village less than four miles away.