Recycling yoghurt pots

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Now having improved my diet :ambivalence: I have a yoghurt every day.

It seems such a waste to dump the little pots.

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I buy yoghurt in the above style shaped pots rather then the cut off cone type which makes it more difficult to get stuff out.

I have started collecting them +/- 30 per month. :cool:

The intended use is to be in my garage to mix all types of stuff in them, after which they can then be disposed.

What recycling do you do (on your boat :nonchalance: or in your garage)?
 
Shopping bags - they make excellent bin bags - got one of those clever "Turn your shopping bags into bin bags" holder thingies, so there's a lid as well.

Being in the EC, you could always catch peeny-wallies (glow-worms) in old jam jars and use them as reading lights to conserve batteries...
 
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Rum_Pirate said:
Now having improved my diet :ambivalence: I have a yoghurt every day.

It seems such a waste to dump the little pots.

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I have started collecting them +/- 30 per month. :cool:

The intended use is to be in my garage to mix all types of stuff in them, after which they can then be disposed.

What recycling do you do (on your boat :nonchalance: or in your garage)?
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Beware. Many solvents will attack or dissolve them. They are not UV resistant either

I use them as flower pots for growing seedlings in the greenhouse after punching drain holes in them.

KAL said:
Shopping bags - they make excellent bin bags - got one of those clever "Turn your shopping bags into bin bags" holder thingies, so there's a lid as well.

Being in the EC, you could always catch peeny-wallies (glow-worms) in old jam jars and use them as reading lights to conserve batteries...
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Its a wonder Dylan Winter had not thought of that.


OR

.... KTL glow-worm powered navigation lights
 
Cardboard, paper, plastics, glass, metal, foils, waxed cartons - just about everything really is collected & recycled by the Council for me - if I don't have a use for the items myself. The tons of landfill saved by recycling attract Government money for the Council to spend on local projects, as well as reducing the landfill tax paid, so quite a good incentive to recycle efficiently.

Veg peelings & garden waste are recycled via my own composter, waste edible food is recycled via our dog & waste wood (not suitable for reuse) provides heating. Sunlight is turned into power too, I just wish I could install a windmill.

Have I missed anything?
 
I reuse the 120ml polypropylene pots for Indian takeaway sauces as mixing bowls for small quantities of polyester resin. I ran out recently, so bought 100 on eBay. Similarly ice-lolly sticks to mix with, but again had to buy more.

I have been known to use a mineral water bottle as heat-shrink.

Polythene carrier bags breed if put in a locker (like wire coat hangers) so I only keep one of them at a time.
 
I buy my yoghurt in 720 gm tubs and these are great for mixing epoxy etc. Aussies insist on pronouncing the yog as in yogi bear! One just fits under the oil filter when I change it - just unscrew it and let it drop in the pot, no oil in the bilge, wrap it in a plastic bag and dump it.
Sailorbaz
 
nigelmercier said:
Similarly ice-lolly sticks to mix with, but again had to buy more ... Polythene carrier bags breed if put in a locker (like wire coat hangers) so I only keep one of them at a time.
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Lolly sticks have other uses, too. I bought wide 20cm long ones as packers when re-covering headlining boards, as 8mm stainless staples were a bit too long and I could not get 6mm ones to fit my stapler. They did not split when stapled and as an unplanned bonus were great for stretching and holding down a decent length of edge at a time for stapling. For plastic bags, I made a waste bin holder to fit on the inside of a narrow locker door from an offcut of rigid wide-bore fan ducting, with a removable duct joining piece pushed over the bag at the top to keep it in place. The bottom of a large plastic water bottle catches the contents of my primary fuel filter when I'm changing it, and the top provides a disposable funnel for the oil change.

But the yoghurts I like come in shallow waxed paper tubs, so they're not very user-recyclable even for gardening.
 
We buy yeo valley yogurts in the big rectangular pots-I use them as storage bins for screws,drills etc.
For washing parts in
Mixing resin in
Etc etc
 
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