Recycling Plastic water bottles?

Save the for the next storm or unexpected multi-day power outage!

Don't keep buying new bottles of water, refill them at the grocery stores. A lot cheaper.

the water out of the machines at Cost U Less or Price Smart I always wondered about the quality of it. I assume it is ok, if your drinking it!
Right now we buy Virgin Water at Cost U Less for 5.99 case and we use that for drinking, ice, cooking.

It's probably better than my cistern water which I use for cooking, ice, etc. 🙂

OK, these water jugs are unfortunately headed for the dumpster. I even stopped and asked the Frenchie couple that sells veggies down by the stadium this morning if they wanted them and they said they had enough...hmmm....at least thats what I think they said!:D

Why is it so hard to recycle here? Whats involved in starting a recycling program?

I like the 21/2 gallon ones at Cost u Less. they only wiegh 16-20 pounds full. there is a skinny one that keeps a gallon cold in the fridge, both have dispensers and they are the "good" plastic. and they have handles

There have been recycling programs before. The problem is it costs money to get the stuff off the islands.

"Why is it so hard to recycle here? Whats involved in starting a recycling program?"

Money! Right now RAVI (Recycling Association of the VI) St. Croix is working on grant money to get a bailer as well as a glass pulverizer for the Boys and Girls Club. The bailer is for plastic so it can get taken off island. The glass will stay on island with the intent for a new business to take the reigns of leasing the equipment and sellling the end product to our local contractors for road filler. These future plans will be posted in the Avis sometime November. Watch for it.

There was something in the papers a few months ago about shipping an un-used glass crusher from STJ to STX. The crushed glass to be used in asphalt for road construction. Haven't heard anything about it since.

A while back I looked in to simple low tech ways of recycling of plastic. Some of it is easy to melt and form. I wonder if there is a grant out there to explore local plastic . You could make those curb stone things or some kind of building block or road markers.

That glass crusher is still in its crate on St. John. There are too many parts to get it to where we want it as a glass pulverizer. It was bought with grant money for the purpose of road construction but contractors need clean glass, which is what a pulverizer does. A glass crusher just reduces the glass.

St. Croix will get a new pulverizer and hopefully a start up company will maintain it and sell the end product. If you know of anyone in the states looking to get a company started down they should contact RAVI.

Website is http://www.usvircd.org/RAVI/STXRAVI.htm

The opaque plastic jugs are designed to break down in a landfill after a while and will eventually leak. Not too good for long term water storage. The clear plastic jugs are made much better. I just left a few gallons by the dumpster not in it; in case somebody wants em.