Re-Use Your Empty Toothpaste Tubes

[EuroDat]

No one uses toothpaste in Netherlands?

Yes we do and we also recycle.

Im now the proud owner of four garbage bins. Paper/Carton bin, Plastic bin, Garden/Fruit/Vegitable bin and the normal bin. The normal bin is weighed and we pay per kilo. That is the local councils way to encourage recycling....

 

Im still trying to get my mind around how you came up with tooth paste tubes. Ice cream containers for nuts and bolts. Now that I can understand, but tooth paste tubes????

Im a little with Zed Head on this one. Lets not talk about. Oh crap thats exactly what Im doing and Im post number 13.... Thanks to carnival. (google: carnival in the netherlands)

 

I think Ill go back to watching TV and in the commercail breaks working on my color wiring diagram.

Chas

[Zed Head]

Yep, the toothpaste is out of the tube now...

 

On wiring diagrams - Saridout's wiring diagram links in his past messages don't work anymore so I sent him a message.  He's moved them to a new spot.

 

I put the links at the end of his previous messages so that no one has to come here to get them.

[Travel'n Man]

I feel bad when I throw out a Woodford Reserve bottle - but not a tube of toothpaste..............much less keep it for the perfect use on down the road.......... WTH!!

[TomoHawk]

The normal bin is weighed and we pay per kilo. That is the local councils way to encourage recycling....

I like that idea.  I've seen TV shows about how you could recycle almost everything  you buy.  I recycle as much as possible, or sometimes everything (each week.)  I only have one small bag to put in the bin each week, but a big bag of paper I take to the paper bin and one bag  of plastics items the collectors pick up.  I wish I could say that about the neighbors.

[TomoHawk]

Actually, I've seen a lot of recycled objects in or on custom show cars and cruisers recently.  I've seen things from a Viagra bottle for a coolant overflow, beer cans used to wrap ignition coils and other cylindrical parts,  and orange traffic cones made from recycled 4L bottles.  

 

There is an artist that makes sculptures and things (trains, horse, airplane, fire engine) from parts taken from the junkyard!  It's all skillfully welded, soldered, glued, and mounted to a hand-made wooden base made from a piece of a fallen tree.

 

People do some very interesting and clever things with the recycled goods, besides throwing them in the trash.  Or the Pacific ocean.

[sblake01]

Those examples are more repurposing than recycling.