Stumble It!Another Waste Reduction and Home Recycling Idea.
How many people are frustrated at our recycling facilities? We can recycle a lot of our plastics, most paper, card, tins and glass. With a bit of thought we can compost a lot of things at home too. But the one that gets me is those juice or milk tetrapaks.
They have that waterproof inner lining so they don’t rot down well. Because of that they also need specialist recycling to remove the laminate from the inside.
So, what to do with them? There are some specialists that will take them to recycle them, if anyone knows the links please do post it up in the comments and let us know.
You know me well enough by now, I’ll plant in anything! So my recycling involves chopping the top of the tetrapak off, poking some drainage holes in the bottom and using it as a larger plant pot for growing on things like courgette and pumpkin before they head out into my cold, wet, clay soil. (seriously, my kids have washed nice orange clay and made pots from what we’ve dug out of my garden) They last for a few plants if you’re careful but eventually they are so battered that there’s nothing for it but landfill.
Today I came across this gem of a blog! Juice Box Storage. It’s not an active blog – only 3 posts from October 2007, but well worth a look for making gift boxes/party boxes/storage systems etc – all from those pesky tetrapaks!
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January 18th, 2009 at 5:45 pm
Hiya
I take it you have checked the recycle tetrapaks bank locator?
http://www.tetrapakrecycling.co.uk/locator.asp
Even if there is nothing near you yet, do keep checking back. i used to check every six months or so and one day I delightfully discovered that they had finally reached our area!
Good reuse of them though; for the plants.
I’m glad we can recycle ours or I would feel terrible about it – we get through a lot of fruit juice and soya milk…..
Hope you find something and thanks for the link to the other blog
January 21st, 2009 at 4:37 pm
Hi Mrs Green,
Ace link, thanks, I may well add that to my links on the sidebar. I had a look and there’s nothing within easy reach of us or anywhere we’d go often enough. Maybe something will turn up soon.
Sarah