Seems like a shame to throw away and must have a use.
I know you were probably joking, but as a PSA I will add that you NEVER dip any ‘bits’ or any body part in plaster in a closed, rigid container! 😬 A mold should be made with alginate, silicone, or other resilient material. The plaster is what would be poured into the mold afterwards, to make a casting. thanks.
Yep.
And if you knew it was bad, but didn’t know how bad:
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2009/oct/12/girl-loses-fingers-school-art
A school was ordered to pay nearly £20,000 in fines and legal costs today after a pupil lost all but two of her fingers in an art lesson.
The penalty was increased on the Giles foundation school in Boston, Lincolnshire, because staff failed to report the “catastrophic” incident, involving plaster of paris, to the Health and Safety Executive.
WTF was it increased from, £2000? Maybe I’m just used to settlements in the hundreds of millions of USD but that seems insultingly low, even for 15 years ago.
Edit: OMG 2009 was fifteen years ago…
Oh my god, TIL it is that bad
I don’t know why I’m surprised that plaster can burn skin. My grandfather did construction and got a bit of cement in his boots one time while working, and it laid him up for days.
This person molds
Fill the jars with loose screws, nails and bolts then screw the lid into the bottom of a shelf above your workbench. Screw jar into lids and voila you’re living in 1972
Depending on where you live, this may be the start of your plastic-free/no-waste journey. (You’d obviously need a place where you can shop plastic-free somewhere near you )
One possibility is that, any of these jars that were vacuum sealed in the first place, they can easily be re-vacuum sealed with a cheap vacuum chamber/hand pump combo. it’s not an appropriate preservation method for all the kinds of things that originally came in the jars, but will keep dry goods from oxidizing/etc.
Nice collecion you have there! Just got my hand on a large cardbox worth of jars. Almost all of them have caps as well. My plan is to slowly clean and fill them up, just like you did! Also I recently found out (by a foodwaste prevention program) that I have plastic-free shop not too far away from me.
Do you happen to have any My Little Pony figurines to put in the jar?
Put a piece of food in, take a picture every day for a year and post it in youtube.
Collect loose change maybe
Just some thoughts: Spaghetti Lasagna Paintbrush with turpentine Tie wraps Paint rollers
Spaghetti storage. What you described I’d do with an old tennis ball can. Glass jars have uses.
Store pickle, spices, dry fruits? I’m not sure if that’s a food-grade jar. I would recommend pickling raw (ripe is used for sambar) Malabar cucumber. But then again, you won’t be able to probably find it in your stores. Or better, buy black pepper in bulk, throw them in a mixer grider, turn it to power, and then store it.
It’s glass, it’s food safe.
Yes, it is, but glass can be contaminated by previously carcinogenic and not-fit-for-consumption substances. Simply scrubbing with soap and water isn’t enough.
Huh? What jar bought from a store these days is going to have that issue? There is uranium glass but even the cheapest cheap shit glass from the dollar store is going to be safe for food storage. Glass isn’t likely to leach out harmful chemicals like plastic can. Plus glass doesn’t absorb anything that could then later be harmful, that’s why glass is used for canning among other things.
Old glass can be quite dangerous - carnival glass is especially notorious for contaminants. Glass is tricky and a lot of cheap glass intended for display and manufactured abroad may still not be food safe.
Why, uh. Why was that your first thought.
Life, uh, finds a way.
You know all those little bits and bobs you have laying around, like screws you might use one day, a pen that probably has half a page of barely visible words left and those paperclips with the ripped box? Them, you put all of them in there, it will be frustrating to get what you need out, but it will be worth it.
I use them for grease after cooking. Or for drinking glasses when I can’t be bothered to run the dishwasher.
'Fess up, OP - you wouldn’t need the whole jar for that.
I have a co-worker who just started pickling his own eggs. He boils and peels them, then puts them in a jar with 1/3 water, 1/3 white vinegar, 1/3 apple cider vinegar, 1 tsp sugar and some pickling spices. I’ve seen him eat an entire jar for lunch, which makes me grateful my desk is far away from his.
Seems like a shame to throw away
Don’t throw away glass! It’s almost always recyclable if you cannot find a reuse for it!
Also, if you have a local “Buy Nothing” group I can guarantee someone will take it off your hands. My wife has gone deep into the Buy Nothing world, and pretty much anything someone takes. Broken espresso machine? Someone wanted it. Glass containers from old individual serving tiramisu? Someone wanted it. Someone online said they had old broken paving stones, someone took them. It’s amazing how often you can find someone else to reuse something you might not have a use for.
Between Buy Nothing, industrial composting, and recycling, we end up with a surprising amount of the waste from our house staying in the “Reuse, Recycle” part of the waste hierarchy (since composting is technically recycling), and very little actual trash.
Seems like a shame to throw away
Don’t throw away glass! It’s almost always recyclable if you cannot find a reuse for it!
I mean… maybe because I am not a native English speaker but how you say it normally? Don’t people say “throw away” even when they throw it to the recycling bin as well?
I never thought it would imply to not recycling it, I am confused.
Could be, who knows! Regional differences in English make it complicated.
I’ve always used these as separate verbs. “Throw away” to me means to put it into the garbage, “recycle” means to put it in the recycling bin. Like, “Oh, don’t bother recycling that, just throw it away” or, conversely, “Don’t throw that away, it should get recycled.”
But at the same time, if someone were to hand me a rinsed-out milk carton and say, “throw this away” I would probably ask them where their recycling bin is. All down to interpretation and situation, I suppose.
Language is fun!
In colloquial American English you throw away trash. You throw away garbage. You can throw away rubbish. You sort recycling or you take out the recycling. Recycling becomes a noun in this use case.
If you don’t always need glass jars to pour your bacon grease before you wash the pan, you are clearly not eating enough bacon
