BajaNomad - How many uses can you list for plastic coke bottles?

How many uses can you list for plastic coke bottles?

RFClark - 6-17-2023 at 09:25 AM

Coke is the largest selling beverage in Mexico. One of the reasons or results is the large number of uses for the empty plastic bottles.

I’ll list a couple of our uses to start this off.

1) container to hold or mix paint while painting.

2) container to clean brushes after painting

3) the coke label is used to do round edges on plaster and cement walls.

Post pictures too!

AKgringo - 6-17-2023 at 09:31 AM

My dog likes to play with plastic bottles! She seems to like the sound they make when she bites them. She also likes to toss, then pounce on them...especially when she can push them down a slope.

RFClark - 6-17-2023 at 09:44 AM

Musical instrument when filled with various things.

JDCanuck - 6-17-2023 at 09:49 AM

Plastic bottles all sizes: Very handy funnels when the need arises. Heat shrinkable covers for partially used tin cans replaced in the fridge. Traps for fruit flies and other insects(slice and invert the top). Larger 5 gal bottles make great drain funnels and pans for oil replacements or drain trays under anything likely to leak. Camp sinks for washing dishes?
My favourite tho is is as an additive to asphalt to both make it more durable and reduce cracking.
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surabi - 6-17-2023 at 01:00 PM

Fill with water, jam the neck into the soil around potted or outdoor in-ground plants, where the water will seep slowly into the soil. Works well if you're going away for a few days and don't have anyone to call on to come water in your absence.

Fill with water (leaving space for expansion), put in the freezer. When frozen, hang on the back of a stand up fan. As the air passes by the frozen bottle of water, it cools the air so it feels like AC.

Fill with water and freeze- put in coolers or cooler bags when you go shopping (or for a day excursion) to keep everything cold until you get home. Better than using block or bag ice, which melts and makes a mess in the cooler. If you fill them with drinkable water, you have ice cold water to drink as the ice in the bottles melts.
I actually prefer the Electrolit bottles for this, as they are square, so can be packed in tightly without wasting space.

surabi - 6-17-2023 at 01:10 PM

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mtgoat666 - 6-17-2023 at 05:58 PM

Coke bottles mouth is too wide. Prefer Gatorade bottles for cigarette butts, peeing on road trip. Coke and Plastic bottles make poor decoration, prefer glass wine bottles for decoration.

[Edited on 6-18-2023 by mtgoat666]

surabi - 6-17-2023 at 06:14 PM

Liquor bottles as "decoration", regardless of whether they are made of glass, is the epitome of tacky.

Almost - 6-17-2023 at 07:34 PM

Along with being a refreshing beverage, coke is also used as a retarding agent in concrete work. The sugar content when mixed in, slows the hardening of cement and increases the working time to allow for extended placement and working times. When applied to the finished and non hardened surface of concrete, only the surface is affected. This is used when an exposed aggregate finish is required. The commercially available product is called Zokor/Zokol? and expensive compared to good old Coca Cola.

Water director

RFClark - 6-17-2023 at 07:43 PM

Here’s our latest use. Diverts water down to the basin for the gray water system.

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mtgoat666 - 6-17-2023 at 08:45 PM

Quote: Originally posted by surabi

Liquor bottles as "decoration", regardless of whether they are made of glass, is the epitome of tacky.

You should stick to decorating with plastic coke bottles. Stay classy!

mtgoat666 - 6-17-2023 at 08:51 PM

Quote: Originally posted by RFClark

Here’s our latest use. Diverts water down to the basin for the gray water system

A bubbler irrigation head costs about $1 to $2 usd. Just sayin’

surabi - 6-17-2023 at 08:51 PM

I don't drink sodas and don't buy things in plastic bottles if I can help it. And I don't decorate with useless dust collectors or anything that doesn't have some personal value to me because it was made by a friend or family member.

The only plastic pop bottles I end up with are the ones piggish people toss on the side of my road, which I pick up and take to the recycling depot.

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RFClark - 6-17-2023 at 09:21 PM

Goat,

These are free and water faster.

mtgoat666 - 6-17-2023 at 09:48 PM

Quote: Originally posted by surabi

I don't drink sodas and don't buy things in plastic bottles if I can help it. And I don't decorate with useless dust collectors or anything that doesn't have some personal value to me because it was made by a friend or family member.

The only plastic pop bottles I end up with are the ones piggish people toss on the side of my road, which I pick up and take to the recycling depot.

[Edited on 6-18-2023 by surabi]

I strive to be as hifalutin as you, maybe someday I can be as vainglorious as you. I will keep trying! Until then, pardon my crude and classless ways!

tomieharder - 6-18-2023 at 08:52 AM

Quote: Originally posted by mtgoat666

I strive to be as hifalutin as you, maybe someday I can be as vainglorious as you. I will keep trying! Until then, pardon my crude and classless ways!

RFClark - 6-18-2023 at 09:27 AM

T,

When I was learning to fly one of my instructors told me that you have to keep flying the plane until the goat sticks its head through the c-ckpit window.

Santiago - 6-20-2023 at 05:36 AM

Quote: Originally posted by surabi

Liquor bottles as "decoration", regardless of whether they are made of glass, is the epitome of tacky.

Whoa there, I remember empty bottles of Mateus with multi colored candle wax dripped down its side as super super cool......back in the late 60s. Incense sticks all around, a couple of blacklight posters, oversized beanbags for chairs, a two-paper fatty, Abraxas vinyl on the record changer and life was about as good as it got. Tacky indeed.

mtgoat666 - 6-20-2023 at 05:59 AM

Quote: Originally posted by surabi

Liquor bottles as "decoration", regardless of whether they are made of glass, is the epitome of tacky.

Better tacky than snobby!

RFClark - 6-20-2023 at 06:14 AM

Goat & S,

You two need to get a room!

willardguy - 6-20-2023 at 09:16 AM

Empty coke bottle? Perfect size for a JZ trucker bomb!

Empty plastic bottles

Don Jorge - 6-21-2023 at 07:18 AM

are used as floats by local fisherman as buoys for all sorts of traps and hooked lines. Also seen them used as fishing reels much like the beer can.

I have been out-fished by many a local using appropriate technology while the fat gabacho, me, with high priced gear gets schooled on how it is done over and over again. :bounce:

RFClark - 6-21-2023 at 08:25 AM

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bajaric - 6-24-2023 at 01:31 PM

Do plastic coke bottles have any economic value, in terms of recycling? If not, taking them to a recycling center might actually increase the chance of them ending up in the ocean or scattered across the desert.

Dumping worthless garbage into a recycling bin does not mean it gets recycled. It just creates a disposal problem.

Witness a study where they put "trackers" into plastic bags that were returned to the big box stores. Most of the trackers ended up in a landfill, which is probably preferable to where some of them went: Malasia and Thailand.

Coke Bottle bag Closer

RFClark - 7-9-2023 at 11:25 AM

Yes, l know it’s not a coke bottle, but you get the idea.

pacificobob - 7-9-2023 at 12:14 PM

When I'm on a dirt bike a long ways from fuel I'll use 2liter bottles, as soon as there's room in the tank, I'll drain and responseably dispose of the bottle.

RFClark - 7-9-2023 at 12:59 PM

The different sizes make great funnels too.

Crushed ice source

RFClark - 7-20-2023 at 09:51 PM

We freeze RO water in coke bottles. When we need crushed ice we take one out and hit it a few times with metal lime squeezer until the ice is crushed. Then we cut the bottle open and use the ice. This way the ice always tastes fresh and keeps the freezer cold if the power goes off. We also use the bottles to cool a cold bag when shopping,

Paco Facullo - 7-22-2023 at 10:25 AM

I could tell stories of the uses of Coke bottles in Olongapo City, Philippines in the early 70's....

But I'm sure this is not the right audience for them...

RFClark - 7-22-2023 at 12:05 PM

PF,

Birth Control?

Paco Facullo - 7-22-2023 at 06:50 PM

Quote: Originally posted by RFClark

PF,

Birth Control?

Well, i Guess you could say that ???? :lol:

RFClark - 7-22-2023 at 06:55 PM

Paco,

I’m a child of the ‘60s ‘50s as well! You probably have no idea some of what went on!

We’re talking California here!

[Edited on 7-23-2023 by RFClark]

Paco Facullo - 7-24-2023 at 08:29 AM

Quote: Originally posted by RFClark

Paco,

I’m a child of the ‘60s ‘50s as well! You probably have no idea some of what went on!

We’re talking California here!

[Edited on 7-23-2023 by RFClark]

Oh , I think I have a clue. I grew up on Venice/Santa Monica beaches.

Still home based here, although I travel internationally, about 9 months a year.

RFClark - 7-24-2023 at 09:04 AM

Paco,

I grew up a few miles from there and worked for lots of Commercial and Film people in that area, mostly on Abbot Kinney. It was a great place in the ‘60s.

Another great use.

RFClark - 9-2-2023 at 02:00 PM