Recycling those tiny UHT milk cartons

[21again]

Does anyone have any ideas what you can do with those tiny UHT milk cartons that you get in cafes, McDonalds etc?

I have a box of 120 of them to use and don't really want to put them in the recycling bin if I can actually recycle them myself in another way.

I probably could use them on the top of my garden canes if I put some plasticine or something in there to hold the cane in place.

Could use some for my daughter to use to as paint pots.

Anyone got any other ideas for them.

[Jardiniere]

never tried it but couldnt they be used as little modules to start small plants in? punch holes in bottom first?
If i had any i would use them to store beads, buttons, sequins etc......

[HeyWayne]

Pierce a hole in the little "tab" bit and push a stick through the hole. Do this a number of times on the same stick until you form a kind of "flower".

Fill each little pot with a fat/seed mix and you have a flower bird feeder.

[21again]

never tried it but couldnt they be used as little modules to start small plants in? punch holes in bottom first?
If i had any i would use them to store beads, buttons, sequins etc......

Well I did think of that but not sure if they would be too small, they only measure 3.5cm across by 2.5cm deep.

Would that be big enough for the roots to develop, 2.5cm isn't very deep.

[21again]

Pierce a hole in the little "tab" bit and push a stick through the hole. Do this a number of times on the same stick until you form a kind of "flower".

Fill each little pot with a fat/seed mix and you have a flower bird feeder.

Now that sounds like a good idea.

I may have a look into that one.

Will post some pics if I decide to make one.

[HeyWayne]

I decided to sketch it out - reading it back my description din't make sense...

[Two_Sheds]

Turn them upside down, use them as crocks in your containers.

[21again]

I decided to sketch it out - reading it back my description din't make sense...

Great drawing but I knew what you meant and had a bit of an experimet earlier.

Look just like your drawing but he only thing I had to thread them on were bamboo skewers which aren't very long.

Still, will save some fat and stick some Trill in it and see how we go.

Ta.

[21again]

Turn them upside down, use them as crocks in your containers.

That's another great idea, ta.

[HeyWayne]

Great drawing but I knew what you meant and had a bit of an experimet earlier.

Look just like your drawing but he only thing I had to thread them on were bamboo skewers which aren't very long.

Still, will save some fat and stick some Trill in it and see how we go.

Ta.

I guess you could always thread the skewer the other way up so that it was a hanging flower instead of standing...?

[weekendwellies]

stand your pots on 3 or 4 of them to foil the slugs & snails from getting at your plants

[HeyWayne]

Keepin on the skewer theme could you attach one to the end of a skewer and then another at the opposite end facing in the other direction. Make a few like this and bind them all together in the middle and create a kind of "windmill" the tubs acting as little air scoops.

[21again]

Hey, it's getting good this thread now, I can see the cogs revolving in everyones heads!

[HeyWayne]

Fill them with clay or something similar and then attach two together (open faces together) and you could then make a hole in the "tab" and use them as weights to hold down netting, or fleece.

[21again]

Fill them with clay or something similar and then attach two together (open faces together) and you could then make a hole in the "tab" and use them as weights to hold down netting, or fleece.

Good idea but I don't use netting, only grow things in pots and nothing that the birds would be attracted to.