11th July 2025
Once the jam – or peanut butter/ marmite/ olives etc – has been eat, is that the end of the road for the empty jar?
If nothing else it can be recycled. Glass is readily recycled time and time again – but there is an energy cost involved in melting and reforming the glass. Reusing the jar is a better outcome. In our kitchen jam jars are filled and emptied in a rotating cycle as jam/ marmalade/ peanut butter/ bottled fruit/ chutney/ pickles are eaten and refilled. Peanut butter comes from the refill shop; marmalade is made in January when Seville oranges are in the shops; jams, chutneys etc are made as fruits are picked in the garden or bought when gluts appear in the shops.
In an ideal world jam jars like milk bottles would be collected and reused – a better use of a ‘waste’ item.
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