What to do with the empty jugs?

[username]

i'm curious what use other people find for their empty cubed jugs. i've been filling mine with water and using them for heat storage in the greenhouse. it's getting pretty full now and i'm trying to find another use for them. cloches, grog vinting, pontoons, there must be a million uses for those things.

[Adam]

After cleaning out 40 or so to use as jerry cans, I've end up recycling them all now. They are handy, but a bit of a pain to clean out.

[Kuan]

Hi,

I clean mine out with the waste hot wash water from making biodiesel and now I have about 40-50 sitting around. Not attractive. I was thinking some could be used for mini-greenhouse starting seeds.

I think I will just recycle them. They are not strong enough to hold biodiesel and a friend had one collapse. They are really designed to be used in the cardboard.

I wished they used a better plastic as they could be reused continuously that way.

Anyone else have any suggestions. Seems like such a waste.

[BCDelica]

Try posting on something like a local web free cycle, asking if anybody wants rinsed/cleaned 16l food safe containers. We have rid ourselves of hundreds over the years this way. Otherwise we just plain recycle the rinsed and flatened jugs.

Funny enough, I have never once asked what the people whom take the jugs do with them; though one lady responsible for picking about 30 to 40 does have green houses.