Juice cans (reuse)

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Okay we have had a discussion of reusing 5 gallon buckets, pop bottles, milk jugs. How about reusing juice cans? We throw away a lot of 46 oz. juice cans and I always wonder if there is anything I could re-use these for besides chicken waterers.

-- r.h. in okla. (rhays@sstelco.com), September 20, 2001

Answers

I guess by "Cans" you mean the metal ones? We can recycle ours- we rinse and save until we get a truck load of recycleables and when we have to get groceries any way drive into the recycle place-three families of us go about every other month. (I wish we had "curbside- but then the nearest "Curb" is 6 miles away!) I didn't like haveing all those cans sit around so I switched to using concentated juice-I can compost the cardboard part. Sometimes I get juice in plastic-say a really great sale, and I recycle those bottles like pop-bottles etc. The occasional Glass ones get used for food storage.

-- Kelly (markelly@scrtc.com), September 20, 2001.

I have two welded together (to make one long one) to bake bread in on the grill. I grease the inside, place my dough inside to rise, cover the ends with foil and cook on the grill or over the fire. Just roll around every once in awhile for even baking. Works for me!

-- cowgirlone (cowgirlone47@hotmail.com), September 20, 2001.

OK, I'm dating myself again, but here goes: When I was younger, I remember it was a fad to make "footstools" or hassocks as they are sometimes called, or just a low seat for a child from several taped or tied together with string, bottoms up, with a piece of cardboard or wood as a base, then lots of padding on top, and cover the entire thing with fabric. Haven't seen one for years, so I dont know how you get the fabric to form fit the scalloped edge, but somehow they did. Glue maybe. You could stuff the cans with something to add weight. Jan

-- Jan in CO (Janice12@aol.com), September 20, 2001.

Funny that this question came up !! While I was passing the local Pizza Hut downtown the other day I saw bags and bags of tin cans. ( guess they aren't really made of tin any more) Well, I was trying to think what someone could do with all of them. Maybe I'll stop by and ask for a few...you never know. Coould always use them to start seeds in with a few holes in the bottom.

-- Helena (windyacs@ptdprolog.net), September 21, 2001.

When I was a ""Boy Scout", we made flower holders for ""Decoration Day", and sold them. We painted them Green, drove a spike (9") thru the bottom and walla, a flower holder. Put you thinking cap on there are a million ideas out there, this is just another one. Wayne Roach

-- Wayne & (LYN) Roach (R-Way@msn.com), September 21, 2001.


Pot plants. Grow anything. Herbs. Flowers. Small shrubs.

Make small buckets. Two nail holes at top at opposite sides, wire through them with a length of hose, or even tubing, as the handle.

Small stoves or fireplaces. Take out top, put can-opener holes around the sides at the bottom to let in air. Alternatively, put can-opener holes around sides of top, leave top in, cut out one third of bottom half of side as an opening to feed fuel. Burn chips from chopping wood. Burn very hot - cans won't last long, but it uses what is otherwise waste. If you are going to heat or cook something on top, it has potential to be unstable and tip over - use stacks of bricks around can to support whatever, and be careful. You can set this all up in an inside fireplace, or outside in an open-sided shed, or even use while camping.

Take out top and bottom, cut down side, flatten. Makes large "shingles" of metal. Use for whatever (say roof of doghouse).

Take top out of can - use for storage (say nuts and bolts in tool- shed). Turn on side, makes storage containers to put smaller things into with instant access and visibility on shelves. If you take out bottom as well, you can shape them into square cross-section, so no waste space.

-- Don Armstrong (darmst@yahoo.com.au), September 22, 2001.


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