Plastics: What's Recyclable, What Becomes Trash and Why

Re:Plastics: What's Recyclable, What Becomes Trash and Why by baroffoos on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @11:02PM (#20764271)

I once got a 10KG sack of rice from an Asian store once. After a year it got full of tiny bugs less than 1mm in size. Now I buy 1kg bags that I can more easily seal airtight with pegs.

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Re:Plastics: What's Recyclable, What Becomes Trash and Why by Ensorceled on Thursday August 22, 2019 @01:30AM (#20764932)

I divide the 10kg sack into a bunch of mason jars and avoid the pests.

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Re:Plastics: What's Recyclable, What Becomes Trash and Why by baroffoos on Thursday August 22, 2019 @01:34AM (#20764960)

Thats the correct way to go about it really. I will do it this way next time.

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Re:Plastics: What's Recyclable, What Becomes Trash and Why by Ensorceled on Friday August 23, 2019 @07:31AM (#20776403)

Buy a canning funnel!

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Re:Plastics: What's Recyclable, What Becomes Trash and Why by p1necone on Thursday August 22, 2019 @12:09AM (#20764545)

But you're missing out on all that extra protein!

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Re:Plastics: What's Recyclable, What Becomes Trash and Why by logfromblammo on Thursday August 22, 2019 @11:17AM (#20769031)

For bulk foods, like grains, you can use aluminized polyester film bags, and blow in pure nitrogen or drop in an oxygen-absorber packets while sealing the bag. Then you put the bags in a food-grade bucket and seal it. The bags can have resealable zip-locks on them.

Yes, this uses plastic, but all of it is reusable when using certain bag-sealing methods.

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