For the last two months, Mark's been inventing
a pretty cool chicken waterer. (More on that in a couple of
weeks.) Since I was raised on the mantra "reduce, reuse,
recycle", I wanted to make the main portion of the waterers out of
reused plastic containers. This worked great in the planning
stages, with leftover dish detergent and squeeze honey bottles which
we'd squirreled away in the barn making great test models.
But as the time nears for us to introduce Mark's waterer to the general
public, we realized that we needed a larger and more consistent source
of plastic bottles.
"Let's call the closest recycling centers and ask if we can pick
through their plastic and take some bottles home," I suggested. Read more....