Reuse Plastic Bottles Instead of Buying Ice
I recycle plastic bottles by filling them with tap water, freezing, and then using to line plastic grocery bags when I go on a picnic or long car journey. Food and other drinks stay cold and you have extra water for emergencies or to save on buying junk drinks en route.
By Joan from Geneva, Switzerland
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10/23/2010
This is not a safe practice. These bottles have recyclable symbols on them which means they are not fit for reuse because of chemicals leaching out of them into our food and water, whatever we put in them.
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(Archived Sep 20, 2010)Reusing Plastic Soda Bottles Instead of Buying Ice
Tip: Reusing Plastic Soda Bottles Instead of Buying Ice
When we purchase soda in the small plastic bottles, 16 or 22 ounce size we always keep the bottles and wash them out. If we go fishing or take a small road trip to my mother in laws house that is 4 hours away we always freeze two of the larger ones and put water in the smaller ones and fill a small cooler with them. Our water is great and it keeps us from spending too much on extra soda. We are trying to drink more water.
Also, when we purchase soda in the 2 litre bottles we keep a few of them to freeze and put into the bottom of our big cooler for when we go camping. No money spent for ice to keep things cold. And no mess.
By RoseMary B.
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