Ideas for plastic bottles

msg · Guru

Ideas for plastic bottles

Possum3 · Guru

Rarely does any food container only have one life in our household - I tend to reuse Bottles, Tin Cans (make all sorts of things from cut up tinplate) and boxes - I just cannot seem to waste things that can be reused - Depression Parents, I suppose.

Corndoggy · Senior Member

I cut a milk bottle in half, take the bottom and drill some holes in it, and use it for a pot for planting seeds or repotting, top half can be used buried next to a plant, holes drilled in the lid, as a water reservoir for watering. Full bottle with holes drilled in lid can be a watering can. Bottom half can be cut and placed around seedlings to keep then safe from damage till they're more established. All that from a milk bottle.

-- Edited by Corndoggy on Saturday 11th of December 2021 06:47:36 PM

Peter_n_Margaret · Guru

msg wrote:
I know, plastic bottles BAD.

I don't agree.

Plastic bottles are only "bad" when disposed of innapropriately. It is people's actions that are bad.

In fact, compared with glass they are very good. Much less energy required for manufacture and can still be recycled many times.

I understand that Coke claim that their PET bottles are now made from100% recycle.

Cheers,

Peter

Mike Harding · Guru

I use 2L tomato juice containers for storing extra diesel for the diesel heater.

Plastic drink bottles, 1.5L, make a decent yabbie trap - cut off the top about 20mm below where it becomes a cylinder, reverse it and force it into the bottom section of the bottle, poke a small hole in the base of the bottle, thread string through the assembly, (for recovery) put some bait into it and you have a yabbie trap.

dabbler · Guru

Plastic manufacturing is still increasing and that's a major industrial use for urea. So even if you ignore the increasing amount of microplastics - which is a real danger to the environment and human health and almost impossible to clean up - plastics have contributed to the current world shortage. Some plastics are inevitable but consumer level plastic bottles just aren't necessary. Re-using your plastic bottles is great but also means they aren't likely to re-enter the energy and materials recapture schemes. If a plastic bottle can be recycled, choose that option wherever you can. If you reuse them in the short term, recycle them after use. The idea that plastic disposal is the only issue is naive at best.

Cupie · Guru

Mike Harding wrote:
I use 2L tomato juice containers for storing extra diesel for the diesel heater.
Plastic drink bottles, 1.5L, make a decent yabbie trap - cut off the top about 20mm below where it becomes a cylinder, reverse it and force it into the bottom section of the bottle, poke a small hole in the base of the bottle, thread string through the assembly, (for recovery) put some bait into it and you have a yabbie trap.

I used to use the red tomato juice containers as floats on my red claw pots until I found out that they had to be white. I suppose I could use white milk containers, but they are more fragile. So I just fit a white float as well as a sauce container. Makes it easier to pick mine out from the others.

That Utube vid goes on & on & on ... I went to sleep .. but there are a couple of good ideas.

I never buy plastic funnels .. can always find a suitably sized plastic bottle to cut the top off. The bottom becomes a useful container for cleaning paint brushes et al.

Always carry an old 2L milk container with a section of the side cut out for filling my water tanks from a bucket. The plastic bottle neck fits nicely into the water tank filler pipe & the water can be poured into the cut out section without loosing any.

Buzz Lightbulb · Guru

Where does one get all the empty plastic bottles from?

I used to use stainless steel refillable drink bottles until I read that one needs to reuse it thousands of times because of the CO2 emitted in their construction. It's better to buy a plastic water bottle and then reuse it. The current one that I'm using is two years old and still going strong.

What's that maxim? Reuse, repurpose then recycle? And now there's this:

Landfill waste turned into commercial-grade petrol, diesel in CQUniversity project

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-12-09/landfill-waste-commercial-grade-diesel-petrol-fuel-project-cqu/100647952