24 oz and 16 oz plastic containers?

[koshmom.livejournal.com]

Does Baitcon need about a dozen 24 oz containers, and about a dozen more 16 oz containers, all with lids? These were cottage cheese containers, all washed and just sitting around because it's a sin to toss "good containers".

If Baitcon needs them, I'm not attending. Where should I bring them? I can drop them off today (Tuesday) on GLSE's porch after work.

Comments

[lbmango.livejournal.com]

Reuse first, THEN recycle when they can't be used anymore... B-)

the green version of "Pilliage, THEN burn" is "Reuse THEN Recycle" B-)

[thespian.livejournal.com]

I got about 100 quart containers a while ago, and drilled holes in half of them. I use the drilled ones as planters for starting plants from seed and such...and then I put the drilled one in an undrilled one to act as a drip container, emptying it out after watering.

I had borrowed a drill from my landlord's maintenance guy to drill the bottoms out, and when he figured out what I was up to (he's starting a veggie garden himself, and we were chatting), he got all excited. "And I could just get them out of people's recycling! There are hundreds of them on the street for free every week!" :-)

[anotherjen.livejournal.com]

True, it is preferable to reuse. But with the quantity of plastic containers that come into our houses, most of us can't ever hope to reuse or find homes for them all. Hence, recycling. But it is nice that koshmom knows of a place to donate them.

[pekmez.livejournal.com]

I find that the quantity of those that come into my home is about right for the rate at which they become unusable.

My food storage (particularly ice creams and soups) go into them, and into the recycling bin when they develop odors or cracks. Periodically I purge them. The other main food storage one I use that comes for free is the short rectangular plastic ones from East Asia; I get about enough of those to have a stack of 6 good ones in the cabinet.

I also grab a few yogurt ones destined for the recycle bin to cycle in as bathtub cups for pouring water over bathing kid (a stack of 4 or so) every few months. From there, I recycle them.

My own stack of extras (I use the clear ones at home preferentially,
but have a stack of a dozen or so opaque ones) is going to come to baitcon with me, either containing ingredient mixes or empty. ;-)