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Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
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Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Thu Sep 26, 13 2:24 pm Post subject: Bottles.
Can anyone recommend a supplier of bottles? I've emailed some results of a google, and am waiting on replies, but you can't beat personal recommendations.

Nell Merionwen

Joined: 02 Jun 2008
Posts: 16300
Location: Beautiful Derbyshire

Posted: Thu Sep 26, 13 2:30 pm Post subject:
https://www.dormex.co.uk/ https://www.naturallythinking.com/categories/Bottles-%26-Jars/ I have other suppliers but they are cosmetic packaging suppliers. I'm guessing that is not what you need.

sgt.colon

Joined: 27 Jul 2009
Posts: 7380
Location: Just south of north.

Posted: Thu Sep 26, 13 3:13 pm Post subject:
Bought lots from these guys and only ever have one broken jar. https://www.bottlecompanysouth.co.uk/

Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
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Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Thu Sep 26, 13 3:15 pm Post subject:

Thank you.
I'm sorry, my reply is sounding very ungrateful. It is not meant that way, I am just thinking aloud...

Nell Merionwen wrote:

https://www.dormex.co.uk/

I don't like websites than don't give prices: the Golden rule of shopping: if you have to ask, then you can't afford it.

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https://www.naturallythinking.com/categories/Bottles-%26-Jars/

Starting at about 50p/bottle. Makes you wonder why bottles are not more readily re-used... as if I wasn't wondering that already.
Presumably they're substantially cheaper if you buy several million, but does make you wonder how much we're spending on packaging.

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I have other suppliers but they are cosmetic packaging suppliers. I'm guessing that is not what you need.

Well, I was wondering about refining, and I'd read that that involves removing the free fatty acids... which I guess you can do by turning them into soap?

Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
Posts: 15425
Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Fri Sep 27, 13 7:10 am Post subject:

Well, since I seem to have offended everyone who was trying to help (and sorry again for that), shall we come back to the point which caused me to do so?

Why is it that there is so little re-use of bottles these days?
We used to do it: when i were a lad, you could get 10p back on your pop bottles, and I understand that other countries manage to do it.
I had assumed that bottles were so cheap to make that it just isn't economical to clean them properly, but if they cost 50p each, then your minimum wage lacky only has to do more than 12 per hour and you are into savings: that's almost 5 minutes per bottle...

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 16004

Posted: Fri Sep 27, 13 8:22 am Post subject:

With the demise of the corner shop it is difficult for supermarkets to collect bottles; you know people would put them in the wrong crate, break them etc. Add to that the transport costs of getting all the bottles back to a depot, and the economics don't look so good.

Used to work well when the roundsman could collect when he delivered the next lot of Corona, milkman the milk bottles, or you took them back to the corner shop, but the price of fuel to transport them around now is a lot higher, and no supply chain in place any more.

I agree it would be a good idea, and I do try to take jars/punnets and other things back to small shops and farmers market stalls when I think they can re-use them, but I am just one.

DorsetScott

Joined: 23 Oct 2011
Posts: 500
Location: Bournemouth

Posted: Fri Sep 27, 13 11:35 am Post subject:
My wine bottles (and most of my colleagues) always get refilled. With more wine.

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 16004

Posted: Sat Sep 28, 13 8:03 am Post subject:
I save screw top wine bottles for my own brews. Plastic milk bottles, when cut down also make good jugs for wax melting we have found.

Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
Posts: 15425
Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Sun Sep 29, 13 8:27 am Post subject:

Hairyloon wrote:

Nell Merionwen wrote:

https://www.dormex.co.uk/

I don't like websites than don't give prices: the Golden rule of shopping: if you have to ask, then you can't afford it.

Ok, perhaps it is more of a guideline that a rule: he got back to me at �15 for 100 (1 litre bottles).
So thank you again for the pointer.

Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
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Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Thu Feb 13, 14 4:47 pm Post subject:

Hairyloon wrote:

Nell Merionwen wrote:

https://www.dormex.co.uk/

I don't like websites than don't give prices: the Golden rule of shopping: if you have to ask, then you can't afford it.

Ok, perhaps it is more of a guideline that a rule: he got back to me at �15 for 100 (1 litre bottles)...

Except they are rubbish bottles. Never trust a salesman.

Rob R

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 31902
Location: York

Posted: Thu Feb 13, 14 5:03 pm Post subject:

I don't like adverts that don't have prices, but if it were a supplier of this kind I'd assume that it means that whatever the price is, there is room for haggling.

I'd definitely go for samples though, and if they won't supply one, particularly if you offer to pay their costs, don't bother with a larger order. I did this with sheeps wool insulation boxes - a tenner was expensive for one box, but cheap compared to having 50 to use up.

Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
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Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Thu Feb 13, 14 5:09 pm Post subject:
Good advise. Other good advice is to tell the supplier what you want it for: you can't complain they're not fit for purpose if you haven't said what was the purpose.

Rob R

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: York

Posted: Thu Feb 13, 14 5:10 pm Post subject:

Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
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Posted: Thu Feb 13, 14 5:24 pm Post subject:
I was thinking they'll probably do for the "no frills" range.

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