Hallo,
Ich habe Zugang zu 100 dieser Container, die derzeit jede Woche in der Mülleimer fahren, was so verschwenderisch ist. Ich suche nach Ideen, was ich für diese verwenden könnte – Handwerk, Gartenarbeit, DIY. Alle Ideen willkommen
Danke
Von: t625703
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Storing water
Could saw them in half and use them as pots for plants in the greenhouse.
We get them too, local allotments and horse owners like them.
Mini water butts work well.
I do t k ow how I would do it yet, but I’d find a way to turn these into mini irrigation tanks.
Cloches
Tie them together, build a raft. Start a new life, bring Wilson.
What was in them before?
I use one to keep screen wash (dump in concentrate and add water, less water in winter)
We’ve used a couple of those to make comfrey tea. Wodge a load of comfrey in, top up with water and wait. You can do the same with nettles I believe.
Do you have a greenhouse? If you fill them with water and paint them black, they’re good night storage heaters for winter. It won’t make it tropical in there, but it’ll certainly take the edge off and keep more delicate things alive!
I’ll be looking for containers like this to store urine in for 6 months until it’s safe (pasteurised) as per richearthinstitute.org for use as an effective garden fertiliser.
chop top off and use for container gardening. if they’re the 20L ones be pref for tomatos or spuds.
Whereabouts are you and what’s been in them? We always need them for transporting water for our horses. Try horsey Facebook groups in your area. ‘Equestrian + area name’ might bring some up.
Home brew – sold as no chill cubes.
After mashing (soaking crushed grain in 65°C water), for an hour, rinsing said grains to remove any sugars (sparge) then boiling it for another hour boiling you tou have to chill down to 19°C before adding your yeast. To do this you run tap water through a coiled pipe sat in your boiled wort. Uses a lot of water. To save water Australians developed the cube, into which the hot wort is put, cap sealed and left at ambient temperature to hopefully dissipate heat down to 19°C. A technique known as no chill…. can then transfer into your fermentation vessel, add yeast and let nature do it’s thing.
Piss jug
Cut the bottom off and they will make individual cloches, then use the bottom you have cut off as seed starter pots
If you put water in them and then put them under the plants in the green house/coldframe in the winter they will get warm in the day and keep the plants warmer at night.
We take water from home to the allotment in times of drought. 1000l IBC and 2x 240l water butts lasted no time at all this summer. I did however get a warning email from our water supplier at home for using Tok much water lol
Loads of campervans need storage. They specifically often have water tanks and then grey water tanks (ie waste water from the sinks).
Now I note you say they’ve stored a non-toxic polymer but these – if you genuinely have loads, constantly – might be of interest to a campervan conversion company to clean/rinse, recycle and use as grey water storage…?
Store comfrey tea
As someone who doesn’t have a proper water butt, and relies on rain water for my carnivorous plants, I’d be storing water in them 😀
Do they let a bit of light in? I saw a youtuber who cut them in half, filled them with soil, sowed some annuals, placed the top bit back on, then kept them outside over winter. Some seeds really like a bit of cold to get going and so come spring he had a lot of seedlings ready to go! If I had access to some of these it’s something I would like to try myself….
Why are these being binned? Just curious to know the situation surrounding this…
I have one that I use for storing water for my watering system for my pots, as I have no outdoor tap to run it from
You could make comfrey/ nettle tea and store it in these
If they’re clear (as per the picture), they’re usually not UV stable, so not great for using outside. The other colours are a lot better