Seems like a shame to throw away and must have a use.

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    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 )

    jars

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      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.

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      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.

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      Even if you don’t have a place like that, it’s still worth it to put the stuff in jars to prevent maggots from ruining everything.

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      I’ve slowly been adapting to this! I love having all my jars, it’s like living in a lab with specimens

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    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.

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        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…

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        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.

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    Glass recycling is pretty good. Near complete recovery of the material. Plastic is basically impossible to recover, but glass and metals are generally very recyclable.

    Just put it in the bin. Let the city recycle it. You’ll get it back as a beer bottle or another glass bottle like this one, or something else entirely.

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    The Internet has ruined me. I will not elaborate further.

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    There are two well known uses for a jar on the internet. You don’t want any of them.

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    I save them up all year, and come Christmas / Lunar New Year, I bake cookies then hand out jars filled with cookies to coworkers and neighbors.

    It turns out that my wife and I consume exactly enough jam in a year to balance out the jar egress for the maximum number of social connections we can sustain.

    If I have a spare, I might make mango chutney. It doesn’t need to be vacuum sealed if you just make one jar and eat it reasonably soon.

    I suppose you could engineer them to be solar garden lights too. There ought to be enough room for the panel on top of the lid, a battery and circuit on the underside, and then you hang an LED in there.

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        Not exactly! I just sort of take finely chopped apples (for pectin), onions, mango, and dried raisins or dried apricots. Then I boil, adding (a little) vinegar over time until it looks like chunky jam. Then I flavor it with soup stock and cinnamon to taste. Some nutmeg too, if you like. Finally I adjust acidity and sweetness with more vinegar or some sugar – but that’s usually not necessary if I add things in slowly.

        If it’s too acidic, boil it longer, adding a little water if it gets dry. Vinegar (acetic acid) is a gas and will evaporate out slowly this way.

        Mix frequently.

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    I once saw a video or a guy had a jar. I’m going to leave it a surprise but he put it somewhere. Maybe you could do that?

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    Wash it, pour boiling water over it, put hot jam or other preserves inside, it will hold all winter. Just make sure the lid is concaved when the jam cools down - that means it seals well.

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      Wait, wait, wait!?! Wash it, then pour boiling water over it? Then put jam or whatever in the jar and it will be fine?!?

      I’m not sure you’ve got all the steps in the correct order.

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        The hot water is to kill bacteria, of course you remove the water before you put the jam in. I have apple jam from 2022 canned using this method and it still holds, no mold and good taste.

        I’m wodnering what seems so odd in this procedure because that’s how I’ve been taught to do it

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          You have to boil it after the jam is in there, at least that’s what my mother used to do.

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            I think the boiling water would also be to help sanitize the container, but yeah, I’ve always boiled the container with the lid on but loose after putting the contents in and closing while hot to get the container sealed.

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            Oh, I see where the confusion comes from. Well, that’s another way to do it I guess.

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    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.

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      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.

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        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!

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        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.