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Have you ever asked a supplier if they will take back empties?
Yes, without sucess :-(
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Yes, they take them back :-)
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No, never thought about asking
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Rob R



Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 15, 05 12:03 am    Post subject: Glass jars & bottles Reply with quote
    

Rather than return glass bottles & jars to the bottle bank, have you thought about recycling more directly by asking producers if they will take back your empties? If so, who are better (or worse) for this than others?

mark



Joined: 14 Jul 2005
Posts: 2191
Location: Leeds
PostPosted: Tue Nov 15, 05 12:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

i use just about ever glass bottles and jar i can lay my hands on for wine and pickles and chutneys and jellys and jams..

if they aint good enough for that they keep old screws and nuts and bolts etc in the garage
or they do duty as mini cloches in the garden!!

no way am i giving any back to anyone!!

perhaps you should find some other local downsizer who will put your spare jars to good use

advertise them via your local freecycle group maybe

mark

Treacodactyl
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Location: Jumping on the bandwagon of opportunism
PostPosted: Tue Nov 15, 05 7:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Anything that's worth keeping we keep. Good quality wine & beer bottles and jam jars, we even have to ask friends for jam jars.

I've not tried asking the wine merchant we use if they take back old wine bottles, do any do this?

Nanny



Joined: 17 Feb 2005
Posts: 4520
Location: carms in wales
PostPosted: Tue Nov 15, 05 7:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

i always recycle ours and have never thought about asking the supplier to take them back.............

i have a stock of those i want to keep for jams etc but always seem to accumulate more

i tried keeping them "just in case" but ended up with a larder full most of which are now sitting in my shed in tesco carrier bags and a paper feed bag waiting for the off

do you mean taking them back tesco or someone like that or to the supplier of the goods on the label or to the glassmakers themselves

with the greatest of respects, i don't think tesco's gonna want to know and i am not keen on the thought of the postage to mail them back to where ever

unless i am missing the point completely here?

Sarah D



Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 2584

PostPosted: Tue Nov 15, 05 9:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I think Rob probably means small producers - eg Farmers' Markets, etc.

I don't know if it's the same for jams and pickles (but I suspect it might be), but I know that if you sell honey to the general public then you must have a brand new jar each time. Therefore you can return the jars for re-use, but probably not for re-sale purposes.

Nanny



Joined: 17 Feb 2005
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Location: carms in wales
PostPosted: Tue Nov 15, 05 9:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

that would make sense to me.....

so in a way it is better to go for the recycling, at least then the glass is reused and may very well end up as honey jars again

we have taken pill bottles back to the vets i must admit and i belive they reused them after cleaning them out

jema
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 15, 05 10:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

We're a keeper on the whole of glass jars/bottles. But sadly these days it would not occur to me to ask

Alchemist



Joined: 02 Mar 2005
Posts: 123
Location: Aberdeenshire
PostPosted: Tue Nov 15, 05 10:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I saw a place when I was on holiday that offered a 20p deposit for return of jars of their home-made salad dressing/relish. I thought that was quite laudable, though i've no idea of the legality. Maybe it's ok to recycle the glass that way and they just replace the lids?

On the other hand I also saw a very clever use of jam jars as screw/nail/widget holders. The bloke in question had nailed the lids to the underside of shelves in his shed and just screwed the jars into them to hang them up. I thought that was rather cunning.

mark



Joined: 14 Jul 2005
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Location: Leeds
PostPosted: Tue Nov 15, 05 10:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Alchemist wrote:
On the other hand I also saw a very clever use of jam jars as screw/nail/widget holders. The bloke in question had nailed the lids to the underside of shelves in his shed and just screwed the jars into them to hang them up. I thought that was rather cunning.


yeah i've seen that too - its a good way of storing if you do all your work in the shed - but if you want to take them anywhere else to work you need another lid or they all fall out!
so i reckon now it suits m best to just use the jars with non-nailed lids

Alchemist



Joined: 02 Mar 2005
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Location: Aberdeenshire
PostPosted: Tue Nov 15, 05 10:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Yeah. It did occur to me that there was probably a limit to how much weight you could safely store too, but a clever idea all the same.

judith



Joined: 16 Dec 2004
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Location: Montgomeryshire
PostPosted: Tue Nov 15, 05 10:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I ran out of jars this year and had to go out and buy some

SarahD wrote:
if you sell honey to the general public then you must have a brand new jar each time. Therefore you can return the jars for re-use, but probably not for re-sale purposes.


Is it the jars that can't be reused or just the lids?

Nanny



Joined: 17 Feb 2005
Posts: 4520
Location: carms in wales
PostPosted: Tue Nov 15, 05 10:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

mark wrote:
Alchemist wrote:
On the other hand I also saw a very clever use of jam jars as screw/nail/widget holders. The bloke in question had nailed the lids to the underside of shelves in his shed and just screwed the jars into them to hang them up. I thought that was rather cunning.


yeah i've seen that too - its a good way of storing if you do all your work in the shed - but if you want to take them anywhere else to work you need another lid or they all fall out!
so i reckon now it suits m best to just use the jars with non-nailed lids


and frankly it's just too organised for most men's sheds

thos



Joined: 08 Mar 2005
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 15, 05 10:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Beer, apple juice and posh yoghurt bottles have a deposit on them, so go back. Wine bottles and useless things like wine vinegar bottles go into the bottle bank. Anything useful gets shoved into a vacant space in the cellar.

All plastic bottles and tins get compressed as much as possible and go into blue sacks for recycling.

Sarah D



Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 2584

PostPosted: Tue Nov 15, 05 11:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Judith wrote:
I ran out of jars this year and had to go out and buy some

SarahD wrote:
if you sell honey to the general public then you must have a brand new jar each time. Therefore you can return the jars for re-use, but probably not for re-sale purposes.


Is it the jars that can't be reused or just the lids?


Jars and lids must both be brand new and unused if selling honey to the public. There's nothing to stop you returning honey jars to a bee-keeper for their own use, though. My honey went into re-used jars from a friend this year, to save me buying some. I didn;t sell to the public as such, but bartered and gave away to friends, etc. If I sell enxt year, I will need to buy the new jars in.

I never have enough jars for jams, or bottles for wines, but quite often come home to find a load kindly dumped on the doorstep from someone in the village.

2steps



Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Posts: 5349
Location: Surrey
PostPosted: Tue Nov 15, 05 12:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I have never asked as I save all our glass jars and bottles for reusing

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