Tue 30 May 2006
We flipped to roll-on ones from aerosol anti-perspirants for environment reasons - both big, out-there environment (the aerosol bit) and little, in-here environment (the spray quickly made the bathroom unpleasant as it deodorised your lungs) - but now we’re left with lots of roll-on bottles instead.
I suspect the bottle and the ball are different types of plastic so am wary to throw them in the recycling bin - anyone know if they can be recycled? Does it help if you pop the ball out first?
But better than that, are there any reuses for them? Either complete or in parts.
And what about stick deodorant containers (the narrower, ball-less ones)?





LisaP
May 30th, 2006 at 2:50 pm
fill them with a mixture of glue and glitter to make glitter pens for kids. Add a few drops of food colouring too. The glue has to be quite thin though.
You can probably make the flour glue from the other article, but make it really thin.
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sarar
May 30th, 2006 at 3:14 pm
I keep too in my stationery cabinet at work, one filled with thin pva paper glue, the other just filled with water. I used them for envelopes and stamps and the like that aren’t self-adhesive. Saves licking or looking for pritt stick.
-SaraR
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snapper
May 31st, 2006 at 8:54 pm
my wife does the same thing with belach so she can just put a little amount of it on stains on clothes beforfe washing them.
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Sumachy
April 23rd, 2007 at 8:59 am
I Clean them and then refill them with sun screen for my children to use at school.
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Koshi
October 12th, 2007 at 12:50 pm
Anyone have ideas about what to do for stick deoderant, the dry powder kind? They can’t get a second life as a glue-roller-on I don’t think…
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Tamara
January 24th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
roll the stick all the way back down, then
melt some old crayon bits with similar colors i.e. reds/pinks, blues, greens etc. in seperate pots or in old plastic containers in the microwave. pour the melted mixture into the clean deodorant tube and voila!
fat crayons for little fingers.
i might mention that i have a tiny old broken-handled pot that i got for free at a garage sale, so i’m not using a nice pot that i eat from… although cooled crayon will come off a pot…
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Jim
June 20th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
Does anyone know if the deodorant/anti-persperant bottles (plastic) are recyclable at all? I throw mine away too…don’t want to trip up the recyclers but it seems such a waste.
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