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Rob R

Polyboxes

I'm looking for ideas of how to use the moulded polyboxes that you get meat etc. in, what do you do with yours?
Mrs Fiddlesticks

do you mean the polystryrene ones? Or the clear plastic trays?
Rob R

Oh sorry, the polysytrene ones.

Chez

Re: Polyboxes

Rob R wrote:
I'm looking for ideas of how to use the moulded polyboxes that you get meat etc. in, what do you do with yours?


You mean afterwards? You can make an incubator out of them Smile. And I use mine as seed trays.
Rob R

Yep, I wondered what customers do with them so I (or we, in HMM) can make suggestions. Smile

Edit: also, when you eventually do dispose of them, how do you do it?
pookie

I use them to transport jars of Jam/marmalade to market
Chez

Chickens think they are REALLY tasty - I don't know why Shocked
judith

Chez wrote:
Chickens think they are REALLY tasty - I don't know why Shocked


Ain't that the truth. Don't know why I bother with expensive layer pellets!
cab

Handy to keep some in for when you defrost the freezer.

Failing that, with the right solvents you can use them to make a reasonable approximation of napalm.
Rob R

Does it make the eggs frost resistant? Smile
LynneA

Growing mushrooms?
Chez

Rob R wrote:
Does it make the eggs frost resistant? Smile


Bizarrely, it doesn't seem to do the chickens any obvious harm. But I wouldn't put it on your 'what to do with your boxes' tip sheet Laughing
Mrs Fiddlesticks

wool stashes?

Or you can break a few bits down to make crocks in bottom of containers

Or give it to the kids who will come up with weird and wonderful creations.

Can't they be given back to you to use on the next customer or is that not allowed?
toggle

Is that what you are delivering my half sheep in?
Green Rosie

Great for carrying shopping in from boot of car to house.

We also used one to store paperwork in
jocorless

You can use them to make a solar wax extractor for melting beeswax

http://beekeeperlinda.blogspot.com/2007/06/video-on-how-to-use-simple-solar-wax.html
Marionb

I'd imagine they'd be useful for putting frozen stuff in from the supermarket to get it home without it thawing out?
ros

I looked at the ones my www.handmademeat.co.uk delivery came in and wondered what to do with them too Very Happy

I'm going to grow salad in one by the kitcen door, fed up with getting rained on when I go out to pick my tea, but I have a few that are stashed away until I can find a use for them.

maybe Nick can do a collection service and we they can be re-used?

( with lots of 'phone numbers for breakdowns of course!)
RichardW

ros wrote:


( with lots of 'phone numbers for breakdowns of course!)


LOL
ros

I guess they'd be perfect for growing mint in? A photo of one bursting with mint and a recipeformint sauce would be appropriate for the lamb Smile

so on the same theme - Thyme and sage for the pork and maybe the big size one would keep horseradish under control ??

I feel a project coming on for my kids this weekend Smile
Jamanda

Keep horse radish under control? I've two plants and neither of them does anything but stay teeny tiny and get nibbled by slugs Sad

The mint's very good idea though.
ros

Jamanda wrote:
Keep horse radish under control? I've two plants and neither of them does anything but stay teeny tiny and get nibbled by slugs Sad

The mint's very good idea though.


I tried containing a plant in an awkward corner of the garden behind the compost bin. It spread through the fence and next door are not best pleased with me Embarassed
Nick

ros wrote:
I looked at the ones my www.handmademeat.co.uk delivery came in and wondered what to do with them too Very Happy

I'm going to grow salad in one by the kitcen door, fed up with getting rained on when I go out to pick my tea, but I have a few that are stashed away until I can find a use for them.

maybe Nick can do a collection service and we they can be re-used?

( with lots of 'phone numbers for breakdowns of course!)


Sob. We'd like to have them sent back for reuse, but it's looking stupidly expensive, even to stick in the post.
Northern_Lad

What happened to the carboard boxes?
Rob R

Northern_Lad wrote:
What happened to the carboard boxes?


Shhhh! They're undergoing secret trials Wink

toggle: yes, possibly the last ones that will, though.
toggle

Rob R wrote:
Northern_Lad wrote:
What happened to the carboard boxes?


Shhhh! They're undergoing secret trials Wink

toggle: yes, possibly the last ones that will, though.


thanks, you've just solved a problem for me, offspring has to make a model of a sound insulated room as a homework assignment.
Rob R

Excellent Very Happy
Rosemary Judy

The lids are fab for seed trays to stand on.
I grow salad in one.
the chickens ate most of the other one - why do they like polystyrene.
I can't handle them easily though, as they set my teeth on edge, like nails on a blackboard, so can't store things in them....
Cathryn

You're creating a market for them. Smile

(Which I suspect was not quite the plan.)
Rob R

ruby wrote:
You're creating a market for them. Smile

(Which I suspect was not quite the plan.)


The plan was just to find out what happens to them all, some interesting uses have arisen Very Happy

OK, another question; can you have too many of them?

Does anyone recycle (as opposed to reuse) them?
JB

cab wrote:
Failing that, with the right solvents you can use them to make a reasonable approximation of napalm.


Are you starting the Cambridge liberation front Shocked ?
cab

JB wrote:
cab wrote:
Failing that, with the right solvents you can use them to make a reasonable approximation of napalm.


Are you starting the Cambridge liberation front Shocked ?


Laughing

It can't only be me who has played at melting different sorts of plastic in whatever solvents are around at the time?
ros

cab wrote:
JB wrote:
cab wrote:
Failing that, with the right solvents you can use them to make a reasonable approximation of napalm.


Are you starting the Cambridge liberation front Shocked ?


Laughing

It can't only be me who has played at melting different sorts of plastic in whatever solvents are around at the time?


nope, it's not only you Embarassed
Chez

ros wrote:
cab wrote:
JB wrote:
cab wrote:
Failing that, with the right solvents you can use them to make a reasonable approximation of napalm.


Are you starting the Cambridge liberation front Shocked ?


Laughing

It can't only be me who has played at melting different sorts of plastic in whatever solvents are around at the time?


nope, it's not only you Embarassed


Nope. My ex boyfriend once burnt down his mother's shrubbery doing experiments in to explosives. Many years ago, before we all knew better Laughing
Spruengli

Insulated boxes work well for proving dough in a cold house with no airing cupboard - put bowl of dough and a hot hot water bottle in and close lid... Very Happy
ros

Spruengli wrote:
Insulated boxes work well for proving dough in a cold house with no airing cupboard - put bowl of dough and a hot hot water bottle in and close lid... Very Happy


that's a good idea.
VSS

making yoghurt - we have a pharmaceutical grade polybox that the pot of "making" yoghurt goes in to keep warm. does away with the need for a flask. any old pot will do.

looks like the are not recyclable, but they are reusable.
RichardW

VSS wrote:


looks like the are not recyclable, but they are reusable.



They are but very few place do it.

http://www.expanded-polystyrene-recycling.co.uk/


Justme
Rob R

http://www.eps.co.uk/recycling/recycling_A_recyclers_map.htm
wellington womble

They are far too useful to recylce - I used to get a monthly meat box from well hung meat (I think they may have reuse ideas on their site too?) I grew most of my veg in them, one year - tomatoes did brillantly in them, as did carrots, salads, baby beetroot, peppers and chillies. This year I've got peas in one for leafy tips. I also used to take one camping for keeping cold stuff cool, and for extra fridge space when we had visitors, and for sausagemaking days, and keeping booze cold for parties. I get my organic box delivered in one now, but they take it back for re-use - of course I dutifully return it. Mostly.
Earthmother

We uses them for transporting our tropical fish when (in bags of course) we take them to auctions.
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