Recycling egg boxes....

My milkman,a farmer , takes any egg boxes back. Proper recycling

I have a Can O Worms, bought years ago when our council had them as special offers. I have just bought one the same for DS2's birthday. It takes quite a long time (years) to get much worm compost from it but I do get the liquid to use as fertiliser.

What a great present. That’s the sort of present I like to get.

Years ago I had a Wiggly Wigglers wormery, bought for my birthday by my son, and I was delighted with it. Instructions come with the product, but you need to use composting worms.
I also have a collection of egg boxes, as I used to buy from a local smallholder, who stopped selling eggs during the lockdown. I will see if there is another one locally.

I’m going to get a wormer.I had one years ago but it didn’t work. I put tiger worms in it and I opened it one day and it was like opening a tin of spaghetti hoops. I just ended up with a vile mushy mess and lots of worms. Which is the best one to buy?

I tear up damp cardboard egg boxes to put in the wormery. Also if you make them soggy enough to fall apart and mix in some PVA you can use the resulting mush as a modelling material. It just needs time to air dry, or maybe very cool oven. I made small balls of it and added an extension to the Christmas nativity stable.

I put cardboard egg boxes in compost bin, along with loo rolls, but would put them in the re-cycling bin if not. Also put plastic egg boxes to re-cycle. Yogurt pots and marg tubs allowed, but we have to take glass to the bottle banks.
Pity the whole country doesn’t do the same all over, would make the rules easier to follow.

We just have 3 bins. Green for household waste, black for recycling and brown for garden waste.
Our recycling provision is rather poor here we can put newspapers cardboard, cans and plastic bottles into the bin, and thats about all.
I do put in cardboard egg boxes and have never been asked not to.

Mine also go in the compost in summer, or are used for seeds. In winter the make excellent fire lighters, either in the chimenea or open fire.

I tear them up and put them in the compost bin, like Treebee. They're rotting down well.

We used to but since Covid I get them delivered by the milkman. We don’t even venture forth to the village shop or the farm these days. I may phone the farm up and ask if they need any boxes though.

Buy eggs from your local farm or poultry keeper- and re-use the same box. When I do have spares, they all go into the compost bin.

We recycle ours, but I see that you can’t Maybee nor pizza boxes.
Suppose you will have to add them to the general refuse bin.

Again those little pots are ideal as plant pots burn a little hole in the bottom though

I give the coat hangers back to the dry cleaners but I do have a problem with take a way food containers, I don’t buy that often but they build up as do the yogurt pots. Funnily enough the next town accepts them in their recycle bins and they are collected by the same company.

We don’t have inner and outer just one blue recycling bin which all recyclable things go into

Perhaps that means the plastic egg boxes you often get in supermarkets

We buy our eggs from a local smallholder and take the boxes back for refilling every week. They must be older than the grandsons now, but still going strong.

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This is what it says on the recycling calendar. Maybe it's a space thing. Unfortunately I no longer have a compost bin due to a rat infestation.

I use them to chit potatoes for allotment.

Are you sure you can't recycle the cardboard ones? Some areas accept them, others do not. Reasons for some areas not wanting them (for instance, if you put eggy eggshells back into them, they could be contaminated with food, whichmakes them unacceptable) are mentioned at wigglywisdom.com/are-egg-cartons-recyclable/ which also has some other things you could do with them

Compost heap here too.
Our Co-op had a sign up that they were having to switch temporarily to plastic boxes.

We tear them up and put them on our compost heap. They rot down well.

PollyDolly

I always put them in the blue recycling bin too. However, the last dozen free range egg sale I bought were packed in clear plastic! ?

Yes: I bought some recently that were in a plastic box. I thought maybe they’d switched to recycleable plastic.

I always put them in the blue recycling bin too. However, the last dozen free range egg sale I bought were packed in clear plastic! ?