I have thousands of milk caps. Thousands. I’m not lying. I
started collecting them about the time we began curb side recycling. I put the
bottles in the recycling, but couldn’t bear to throw out the bright plastic
lids. Why couldn’t they be recycled too? I figured the recyclers would figure
it out eventually, and until then I’d save them. But then they never did.
The lids piled up (along with the yogurt containers, sour
cream cartons, deli plastic, etc.). Slowly I found solutions to for my rapidly
growing bins of plastic crowding the corners in our basement. Yogurt cups make
perfect seed starter pots if you poke a few holes in the bottom for drainage.
Sour cream containers are just about the right size to freeze chicken broth for
future recipes (just under two cups). Ice Cream tubs are excellent for sending
cookies to school for parties, and also for refilling with homemade ice cream.
But what to do with all those lids?
