This morning I was going through assorted plastic. Broken quart bags, lettuce containers, celery bags, meat wrappings, you get the idea. I came to the conclusion, as I put about 80% of these things into the rubbish bin (honestly, what can you really do with 20 and counting styrofoam trays?), that my town needs a better solution for recycling than we currently have. This pretty much applies to the entire country as well. I may go to some town meetings or something. Until then, you readers are lucky enough to enjoy rants from yours truly.
Maybe more research later. Ta for now!
Going back to the 20 styrofoam trays, here's something for the comments. Feel free to give any ideas for re-using plastic.
Trays are good for beading tables if you're using a beading needle. They are also useful when watering house-plants (place the pot on top of tray to prevent spills) and seedlings (ditto). Anything else? I heard someone say insulation!
It seems that most small towns have recycling centres that leave much to be desired. (Our old town basically just dumped everything one one big dumpster and said done)
ReplyDeleteOne thing that we use any Styrofoam trays for is paints, they're good for acrylics, especially for mixing colours. (though, not really for watercolours) Insulation IS a good one (though I wonder if there are any drawbacks) since they're so warm and the flat ones could be easily stapled to the insides of walls.
Maybe covering them in scrap fabric and using them as pin cushions?
(Now you've got me thinking of using them in ways that may not be too desirable, such as heat reflectors/insoles for shoes.)
hi! Thanks for commenting! (we don't get much of that going on around here :)
ReplyDeleteThose are awesome ideas! yes, always take bags of styrofoam into the wilderness with you! oooh, pincushins, that's a good one too. maybe I'll make a list of our and other's uses soon :)