What do you do with the empties?

Used to keep a single of each beer I have tried. The cases and cases of them ended up filling the garage to the point that I couldn't get the car in. Decided to throw everything out, without remembering that a) some of those bottles / labels were rare, limited edition or no longer produced, and b) in one of our house moves I had actually stuck a whole heap of my 1980s Transformers in those boxes.

Sad times.

 

trash em, got no more room for random junk in my apt.

 

I recycle them. I keep the bottle caps because when I collect enough, I want to make a table with all the beers I've drank through the years.

 

Living in Michigan definitely take back to the store for deposit. A lot of really cool artwork and design on the label though.

 

I soak and save about half of the labels (I already have a lot...) and the rest get soaked and tossed so that the bottles can be used for homebrew. I'm a bit nutty that way, but the old returnables, they's hard ta come by, these daze...

 

I save any ones I deem special enough to display. Either throw the other ones away or save em for homebrew.

 

I recycle to get my money back.

 

I dont save any of them (though I might save a Gandhi bot can or two, now that it's an endangered species)

Other than that, I basically donate all my empties to the local high school's bottle drive. They use the proceeds to fund the Safe Grad party (oh the irony!))

all that aside, my volume of empties has plummeted in the past year.......since I started going to Tree House so frequently. Refilling growlers at the brewery has done wonders for reducing my recycling footprint.

 

This is what I do with mine.....Sorry you can only see 2 of the four walls I am working on...Also, no pictures of the Bomber Bookcase, lol

 

I also do this with my empties !!!!!!!!!

 

I save one of each of my very favorite beers. My hope is to design some sort of display in my basement (but that would require motivation).

 

I remember living in base housing & having neighbors comment about how may bottles I recycled. I of course told them my wife had "issues" Actually, I told them to fuck off & mind their own business.

 

Save the cans to give to the Humane Society, used to save them for my kids to sell, but they wanted me to do all the work, so screw'em. No one takes bottles around here. Hell they didn't start recycling around here in manner until about 6 months ago

 

LOL... yeah my phone pics are beer, beer, beer, meat/steak, kid, cat, dog, dog, beer, (repeat)

 

Build my earthship. And ocassionally get deposits.

 

Jesus Christ!

That would be a great drinking room if I had a spare room.

Enjoy

 

LOL

 

Usually I rinse out the empties and either recycle them or save them for homebrewing. Sometimes I'll peel off a label if the design is something I want to keep.

 

I always throw them in the recycling bin in front of my house that gets picked up once every two weeks. I really wish they didn't pick it up at six in the morning though because it's pretty loud when they empty it.