Disposing of empties

[hotwine]

We're fortunate to be able to recycle our empty wine bottles; they're picked up by our garbage contractor once a week, along with other recyclable trash (while normal garbage pickup occurs twice each week). But I'm curious as to how other members of the board dispose of their empties, considering we all generate a goodly quantity of those puppies. How do you folks do it? Set 'em up on fence posts for target practice? (That was once my method.) Fling 'em at that howlin' mutt down the road? (Also done that.) Unlike empty beer cans, they're really too heavy to expect the wind to scoop 'em out of the back of the pickup while drivin' down the road, so some other more dependable method is called for.

[winecollector]

I save them all. I know a lot of people that make wine, and if I don't use the empties, someone else will.

[winoweenie]

Hi Hots and all, I`m also in an area that recycles. We have a once-a-week pickup. Sure makes lots of noise when they dump them suckers. WW

[mrdutton]

We recycle. The pick-up is twice a month.

You should hear the neighbors complain about the loud glass breaking crashes that resound through-out our cul-de-sac when my recycling bin is emptied.

The recycling container is about the same size as a 200 gallon container..........

Holds lots of stuff. My wife complains that there is never any room in the thing because of all the wine bottles!

[hotwine]

I was wondering if anyone else was having the same problem with the noise. Good grief! Kee-RASH! <tinkle, tinkle, tinkle.> The neighbors have got to be saying, "There's old juicer Hotwine, fillin' up the recyle bins again!" My wife also complains that I leave no room for milk or water bottles, or as she puts it, "The stuff that NORMAL people recycle!" It's nice to have you guys' sympathy ....

[barnesy]

I live in Idaho. Here, Recycling is considered one of the pinko-commy ideas....like government at any level of any sort. And why waste the ammo on the bottles? you need to save it for them black helycopters the goverment is always using to spy on us...
Plus you can fill them with some rippin' moonshine.

They just go in the garbage.

Barnesy

[Thomas]

NY is one of themthere pinky commo states; recycling is the law.

[cpurvis]

Been sendin' most of 'em to friends in California who promptly take them to an Obester Winery BYOB event & refill them at $3.75/bottle w/ better juice than I typically find for $10+ in the store...in fact, MUCH better than several $20+ specimens that I tried at a recent tasting.

Savin' the ammo for local mountain lions that prowl the valley on occasion.

[chittychattykathy]

Big time recycling here in Seattle, huge recycling cans and bins. I sometimes feel a bit odd about the sheer numbers of wine bottles in the bins, but all the neighbors know what I do for a living and many of them "share the wealth" when I walk down the street with almost full sample bottles to give out to those in need.

[winoweenie]

Help me Dorothy, identify that noise. Is it a tornado?.....No just Drew packing ...WW

[hotwine]

WW, I'm ready to pack, too! With CCK & Bucko both sharing the wealth with their neighbors in need, how do we go about qualifying?

[Drew]

Don't even go there, Wienie Wonder....You remember how you started??? [img]http://www.wines.com/ubb2/biggrin.gif[/img]

Drew