Stop 🚫, To Throw Away Your Glass Jar!!! Reused It

Zero waste lifestyle

Everyone must start to do it in everyday life. Everything you can do for making this world more better.

The goal of a zero waste lifestyle is to help reduce global warming. Global warming is a threat to the next life of the earth.

Often used glass jars or better known as mason jars such as containers for jam, chili sauce, etc. only end up in disposal and increase the amount of waste accumulated. Glass jar can be recycled back 100% many times without losing the quality. And recycling glass is better than producing new glass, because it produces less air, water pollution and also requires less energy.

But if it can still be used again, then the Reused function that we must take to reuse it with new benefits. Simply, clean the used glass jar, remove the label and reuse it, thus helping the waste reduction function from the 3R waste utilization function.

There are many benefits that we can do on the used glass jar. For example, as a kitchen spice holder, a cake holder, a dried flower holder, a pen container, a flower pot, modified into a beautiful glass, a place to store pickles, etc. So from now on, start using items that can still be reused.

Glass containers are a natural and environmentally friendly choice for storing food or groceries in dry or wet form. Glass material is able to maintain the aroma and durability of a food. In terms of appearance, glass jars are also beautiful and make it easier for us to see what's inside.

TIPS

For Removing Labels On Used Jar Glasses

Labels on glass jars are always a difficult problem to remove, sometimes leaving glue residue that can worsen the appearance of the jars we will use. Tips for removing labels attached to used jars. Follow these steps:

MATERIALS
• Vegetable oil
• Baking soda

DIRECTIONS
• Soak the used glass jar in warm or plain water for ± 1 hour.
• Peel off the label which is easy to remove. For stubborn glue marks, you can use a 1: 1 mixture of vegetable oil and baking soda and apply it to the label marks in the jar glass. Let stand for ± 20 minutes. Rub and rinse thoroughly.