Polymath
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Was drinking out in town last weekend when I came over the following idea. Got a drink at the bar and watched the staff throwing used bottles into a large container. My idea came from where do those used bottles go?
I am considering they do one of two things with them :
1) Bin them all
2) Recycle them
3) Send them back to the suppliers perhaps?
If my local pubs are just binning them, surely I might be able to approach the owner of the pub and purchase/obtain them for my own use. At the minute I'm looking at a pack of 6 beer bottles from Wilko's for about £3.50. So thats 50p a bottle. Or £20 for a full set of bottles for one brew. If I can reuse them from my local pub which was just going to bin them anyway, then I can drop my costs ALOT.
Does anyone have any experience or opinions on this. Clearly each bottle would be given a very good clean (1 hour soaked in strong steriliser) before use ....
I am considering they do one of two things with them :
1) Bin them all
2) Recycle them
3) Send them back to the suppliers perhaps?
If my local pubs are just binning them, surely I might be able to approach the owner of the pub and purchase/obtain them for my own use. At the minute I'm looking at a pack of 6 beer bottles from Wilko's for about £3.50. So thats 50p a bottle. Or £20 for a full set of bottles for one brew. If I can reuse them from my local pub which was just going to bin them anyway, then I can drop my costs ALOT.
Does anyone have any experience or opinions on this. Clearly each bottle would be given a very good clean (1 hour soaked in strong steriliser) before use ....