We featured babies’ dummies last week and it made me realise we hadn’t covered much baby paraphernalia – but there is a sure to be a lot of it out there.
So how about babies’ bottles?
Can they be sterilised sufficiently to be passed on to others? And if not, what other things could they be used for?
(Photo by spekulator)
We’ve had an email from Gary, saying:
I have found a few leftover babies’ dummies and dummy cases whilst doing some tidying in the kitchen.
Rather than throwing them away I wondered if there was any way to reuse or recycle them.
Good suggestion, Gary. There must be millions of those things lying around in households around the country.
The only thing I can think to do with them is to give them to teenagers who want “ironic” jewellery :) But any other suggestions?
DOWNTIME INFO: Just in case anyone noticed, we’ve been down for six hours this afternoon – our entire (huge) hosting service went down because of the floods. Everything looks to be up again now and hopefully they’ve got giant sandbags on standby for next time.
(Photo by xymonau)
We’ve had an email from “nannaspoon”:
Can I recycle the boxes that baby powered milk comes in? Cow & Gate comes in a laminated cardboard outer case, plastic lid and silver-foil covering on the inside of the box which is non-detachable. What should I put it in with – cardboard, plastic or foil?
Oooh, that’s a good question: I suspect if you can pull the lid off – and it’s a type of plastic covered by your recycling people – then that’s ok to be thrown in with plastics but does anyone know what the deal is with foil-lined cardboard?
Cow and Gate claims this new packaging is better for the environment that their old tins and they “use recycled materials wherever possible” – but they’ve not got back to me about how the tubs can be recycled post-consumer. (UPDATE: they have done now. Their response is in the comments.)
Any ideas for reuses?
