View Poll Results: What would you do with an empty pringles container? Steel bottom cardboard sides.

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  • Put it in the trash.

    8 19.51%
  • Put it in the recycling bin.

    2 4.88%
  • Put it in the steel pile as is.

    6 14.63%
  • Fill it up with small steel and throw it in with the steel.

    14 34.15%
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    Empty Pringles Container

    What would you do with an empty Pringles container?


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    Make an iPhone Speaker!
    I'm so into scrapping.. When my Steel Toe Boots Wear out, I cut the Steel out of them and recycle the Toe!

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    ugh... iphone... you can make an iphone casket and throw them both away.
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    I cut the bottoms off. Also with peanut can bottoms

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    Throw it in the burn pile. Remnants of the burn pile are raked up and shoveled into a Gaylord (old fertilizer tub) and hauled in as prepared. Living in the country allows for the burning of trash. I know the forum does not endorse burning as a method of preparing scrap, but this is a fact of life in country life. Hauling trash 30 miles to a landfill instead of burning it and adding it to the garden is not a hard choice.

    To put this in perspective, lots of old farm machinery has wood attached. Scrap yards do no pay for wood so we burn it off. Since I heat my home and shop with wood, it does not seem any different.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Patriot76 View Post
    Throw it in the burn pile. Remnants of the burn pile are raked up and shoveled into a Gaylord (old fertilizer tub) and hauled in as prepared. Living in the country allows for the burning of trash. I know the forum does not endorse burning as a method of preparing scrap, but this is a fact of life in country life. Hauling trash 30 miles to a landfill instead of burning it and adding it to the garden is not a hard choice.

    To put this in perspective, lots of old farm machinery has wood attached. Scrap yards do no pay for wood so we burn it off. Since I heat my home and shop with wood, it does not seem any different.

    I feel the same as burning plastic. #2 fuel oil has similar properties. Now I don't sit around and burn plastic for fun, but I don't freak out about it.

    The plastic grocery bags make great fire starters.

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    Quote Originally Posted by etack View Post
    I feel the same as burning plastic. #2 fuel oil has similar properties. Now I don't sit around and burn plastic for fun, but I don't freak out about it.

    The plastic grocery bags make great fire starters.

    Eric
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    Closed plastic bottles explode. Bonfireworks.

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    I chose other. I do use them for small shred(screws, bolts, washers, etc.) I also use them for small cast/pot metal I get with somethings I get regularly. Small CBM type stuff(things I pluck off low grade boards an the like), alum heat sinks from low grade that I strip, an other small heat sinks from various items. Basically anything small that I can get in one.

    I also use them for copper yokes that fall apart. Can fit a good bit of it in there. LOL.

    No container goes un-used if I can help it.

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    you just got a thanks for the boomshakkalakka

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    I keep one beside my chair in my shop. When I'm breaking down electronics and something gold pops out, it goes into the pringles can.

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    I usually use the small ones to hold resistors - can fit about 5,000 new ones in there.

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    Fill it with screws as I tear stuff apart and then into the shred pile...
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    I wouldn't waste my or other peoples time asking what to do with an old pringles can.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bullion View Post
    I wouldn't waste my or other peoples time asking what to do with an old pringles can.
    Somebody got up on the wrong side of the bullion bed this morning. LOL, lighten up Bullion.
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    I usually throw them in the garbage because I'm p****d off that I just found an empty can in the pantry and I didn't get any chips.

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    Put it down and go get a full one. Mike
    "Profit begins when you buy NOT when you sell." {quote passed down to me from a wise man}

    Now go beat the copper out of something, Miked

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    I burn off everything except the steel

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    They're all lined up next to my chair for winter scrapping. I should just line the floor with neo magnets cuz I'm a terrible shot.

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