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Mumsnet Discussions: Ethical living : What do you do with used wine bottle corks and milk bottle lids? (6 messages)
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Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By Pannacotta on Mon 20-Oct-08 22:37:34
We collect quite a few of both and am not sure if/how to recycle them.
THe local council doesn't collect foil and no local recycling point for cork.
Any ideas?
TIA
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By KatyMac on Mon 20-Oct-08 22:39:24
If you stand your corks up on end & glue them together you can make a cork board

Aren't milk bottle lids just foil?
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By Pannacotta on Mon 20-Oct-08 22:42:39
KatyMac you are clearly more organised than me re the cork boards!
Yes the milk bottle lids are foil so we could take them to the recycling tip place, but I had an ideat that there were charities who collected them, though that could just be my imagination...
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By KatyMac on Mon 20-Oct-08 22:50:49
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By zandy on Tue 21-Oct-08 14:16:21
give to a local primary school for art resources.
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By BlueChampagne on Thu 23-Oct-08 12:59:54
Our council does high temperature composting so I put corks in that. It's organic matter after all. Milk bottle lids get washed and recycled with foil. Not sure what to do with plastic 'corks' though.


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