10 litre Plastic Water Bottles

[munchy]

Does anyone have any useful suggestions for the disposal of these items?

[13roman58]

A deposit will have been taken so take them back to the shop to get the refund
But good with that

[munchy]

That's for the 19 litre bottle 13roman58. Just asked in the Store where I bought the 10 litre ones and they say just bin them.

[mrsgee]

Sah Supermarket in Catalkoy does recycling, maybe try there.

[munchy]

mrsgee, Thanks for info. I am situated in Karsiyaka . I feel guilty putting these rather large plastic items in a domestic bin. I suppose the same can be said of all plastic containers!

[Jonnie]

The key these days is to reduce single use plastics, the sea is full of it. Can you not go on to the 19litre ones?

[munchy]

I had been using various 19 ltr waters for some time but found a particular brand which I preferred but which only came in 10 ltr containers. Oh well, conscience or taste , my choice

[sophie]

Don't feel guilty about using the smaller water containers, we only use them because I can only just lift the large ones and I can't turn them over on to the top of the machine. We either take ours to Sha once a fortnight (and treat ourselves to a nice lunch) OR you can fill them with water for your pots around the garden so when you are cut off (as we are from this pm) you can water the plants.

[Jonnie]

I accept if you cannot lift however it is important that we all try to use less and less plastic, recycling is not the answer (whilst it can help). We often talk about the legacy we leave for our children and their children yet 20 years ago we were not drinking out of plastic bottles how did we manage and what does the future look like? Mains tap water here is fine to drink, I remember drinking out of a stream in Scotland as a child and in Nigeria tap water, boiled and filtered, there are alternatives and I urge everyone to consider them, not just bottles but bags and any other plastics particularly single use ones. We used to shop here using plastic bags for veg etc, we worked out it was 75 bags every two weeks, shocking, we use one big bag and about 10 shop ones a fortnight now through a little effort. 75 bags every two weeks is nearly 2000 per year.