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Help me brainstorm
I'll admit, this is random...
I've started going to Whole Foods and I'm in love with their organic apple juice. It's fantastic. I go through about a gallon ever 1-2 weeks.
Their gallon containers are large glass jugs. I'm having a hard time with the concept of buying/throwing out a large glass jug every week, and we don't have a recycling program at the condo. I tried the organic apple juice from frozen concentrate, and just re-used the jug... but it's just not as tasty.
SO. Options. What do I do with all these gallon sized jugs?
Re: Help me brainstorm
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Don't know about the recycling center, but I can look.
I know grocery stores in MI take recycleables, but I'm not sure about here...
California might b better with recycling but every town around here has one... sometime they're not in the best locations so you may need to enlist DH for recycling duties.
If recycling doesn't work out you could always start up a moonshine business in your spare time as a way to use the jars.
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Make your own laundry detergent and store it in one of the bottles.
Store it in the fridge with water so you'll always have cold water.
Since these suggestions will only use a few, I second the CL or Freecycle option, though.
You can check and see if Whole Foods has some sort of program where you can turn the bottles back into the store to be reused? Lots of European countries do this because reusing the bottles uses less energy than producing new, or even recycling the glass to produce new. I would think an organic foods store would be more proactive about something like that, but I doubt it.
If not, check your city or county government website for recycling locations. Since you're in an urban area I would imagine there would be lots of options. I live in an apartment too, and we have different bins that we separate our plastic, glass, paper, and aluminum/tin into and then we drive to a collection bin to dump it about once every week to week and a half. Yes, it's more inconvenient than just walking your bag of trash out to the dumpster, but once you get the hang of knowing which items can be recycled instead of trashed, you would be amazed at how much waste you will save from the landfills!!