Old Juice Bottles- Save, Throw Out or Re-use?

[WharfRat1976]

Just curious as to what others are doing with their discards. I have many many dead soldiers in my juice bottle graveyard box. Most are empty, some have a little juice on the bottom and some are full and I did not like the juice and many have gone bad over time and became unvapable.

I DIY juice so I will probably clean the ones I like and recycle them back into my rotation. I will have a "peel the label off session" and clean them up.

What are you doing with all of your dead soldiers?

Here is a pic of mine---Post a pic of yours!

 

[sub4me]

I dump them out, give then away, or sometimes try to mix, but usually I just throw them away.

 

[wonner]

If they are clear glass with glass droppers and the labels peel off without a jackhammer, I clean and keep.

Pretty much everything else goes i the trash.

I don't buy much juice these days, but my stash of bottles should last a good long time.

 

[TheJakeBailey]

I save and reuse all of my glass dropper bottles. I find a LOT of premium liquids are super strong in the flavor department, so I add vg to taste and turn 30ml into 50ml. I also find the 15ml bottles easier to pocket.

 

[spaceballsrules]

I save all my bottles for DIY. I love love love the glass bottles with the childproof dripper tops. I toss HDPE plastic bottles, as I just don't like them, and I have only had to toss a few LDPE plastic bottles due to staining or strong flavor that won't wash out.

FYI If you have trouble getting the labels off cleanly, dab the labels with some cooking oil, or better yet, grab a bottle of Goo-Gone and use that. It makes even the most stubborn labels come off very easily, although it may take a couple of applications. Once the label is gone, just grab some grease-cutting dishwashing liquid to clean up the excess oil residue.

 

[FlamingoTutu]

I save all my bottles for DIY. I love love love the glass bottles with the childproof dripper tops. I toss HDPE plastic bottles, as I just don't like them, and I have only had to toss a few LDPE plastic bottles due to staining or strong flavor that won't wash out.

FYI If you have trouble getting the labels off cleanly, dab the labels with some cooking oil, or better yet, grab a bottle of Goo-Gone and use that. It makes even the most stubborn labels come off very easily, although it may take a couple of applications. Once the label is gone, just grab some grease-cutting dishwashing liquid to clean up the excess oil residue.

You can also use lighter fluid to get the gunk off. Good way to use that up.


Save the old ones for DIY and also use them when flying. Figure it's easier to get through TSA with a professional label on the bottle in the liquid bag than a scribbled description stuck on with scotch tape. They didn't put the eliquid through the bomb sniffer machine but they did the prescription cough syrup.

 

[samturdo]

my fallen soldiers

 

[DaveOno]

I have a dozen empty blue Halo glass bottles, 30ml. One day I might diy, so they will come in useful. I did send 6 empties to a diy friend.

 

[K_Tech]

I DIY and still get some juice in the mail.

The glass bottles I will wash and keep, the plastic ones get rinsed out and trashed.

 

[catlady60]

I reuse my old juice bottles. All I do is peel off the label, clean the bottle, refill it with DIY (of FIY--flavor it yourself) juice, and slap a new label with handwritten info about the flavor, nic level, and PG/VG percentages.

 

[ProjektMayhem]

I save all my glass bottles with glass droppers. I have like 10 empty Space Jam Pluto bottles from when I was vaping on that. But I throw the plastic ones away and keep the little needle tip part of them.

 

[Steven G]

Trow them out

 

[The Torch]

You guys are bad... I keep a few old juice bottles for carrying and recycle the rest. I tend to clean and keep the glass bottles, but I will end up keeping some of the droppers and recycle the bottles when I get tired of having too many empty ones.

I save all my bottles for DIY. I love love love the glass bottles with the childproof dripper tops. I toss HDPE plastic bottles, as I just don't like them, and I have only had to toss a few LDPE plastic bottles due to staining or strong flavor that won't wash out.

FYI If you have trouble getting the labels off cleanly, dab the labels with some cooking oil, or better yet, grab a bottle of Goo-Gone and use that. It makes even the most stubborn labels come off very easily, although it may take a couple of applications. Once the label is gone, just grab some grease-cutting dishwashing liquid to clean up the excess oil residue.

You can also use lighter fluid to get the gunk off. Good way to use that up.


Save the old ones for DIY and also use them when flying. Figure it's easier to get through TSA with a professional label on the bottle in the liquid bag than a scribbled description stuck on with scotch tape. They didn't put the eliquid through the bomb sniffer machine but they did the prescription cough syrup.

WD-40 for removing the glue is the easiest and fastest method in general (WD-40 is not really a lubricant... it is a solvent!). Lighter fluid tends to dry, harden and whiten plastics, but will clean up WD-40 oily feel and glue remnants very nicely. It is sometimes necessary to let lighter fluid to soak into labels and glue before it can work properly.) Goo-Gone needs to be used with a towel and can take a lot of effort compared to the other methods, but is probably the least toxic as it uses mostly citrus juice and less toxic or harsh chemicals (but it's been years since I had a bottle of that in my hands, so read the labels for yourself).

 

[Astron]

I've been saving all my glass 30ml bottles and since I've started DIY I am very glad I did.

 

[Ryedan]

The last time I bought juice was two years ago and I used to save the better plastic bottles. Then I got into making juice, bought a bunch of glass bottles and all the plastic I had saved got recycled. The only thing I use plastic bottles for now is to hold juice for dripping and I have all of them that I need for a few years.

 

[AndriaD]

You can also use lighter fluid to get the gunk off. Good way to use that up.


Save the old ones for DIY and also use them when flying. Figure it's easier to get through TSA with a professional label on the bottle in the liquid bag than a scribbled description stuck on with scotch tape. They didn't put the eliquid through the bomb sniffer machine but they did the prescription cough syrup.

Once you've soaked a bottle and gotten most of the label off, but there's still some of the adhesive gunk remaining, a silicone eraser will finish getting the gunk off. The white smooth kind, not the abrasive kind like on pencils.

I save every single old bottle I have, unless I have to cut the tops off with a razor knife to get a syringe down to the bottom -- happens a lot with some bigger bottles like 30ml or tall 15ml bottles.

The other day, one of my new bottles from Sweet-Vapes, the child-proof cap was IMPOSSIBLE!!! to get off... but the bottle was LDPE so I stuck a sharp-pointed syringe into it and just sucked all the juice out and put into the old bottle for that same juice.

Andria

 

[The Torch]

Once you've soaked a bottle and gotten most of the label off, but there's still some of the adhesive gunk remaining, a silicone eraser will finish getting the gunk off. The white smooth kind, not the abrasive kind like on pencils.

I save every single old bottle I have, unless I have to cut the tops off with a razor knife to get a syringe down to the bottom -- happens a lot with some bigger bottles like 30ml or tall 15ml bottles.

The other day, one of my new bottles from Sweet-Vapes, the child-proof cap was IMPOSSIBLE!!! to get off... but the bottle was LDPE so I stuck a sharp-pointed syringe into it and just sucked all the juice out and put into the old bottle for that same juice.

Andria

Just transfer the juice from the hard-to-reach-into bottles into an empty clean bottle that can accommodate your syringe.

I personally use the smallest Haagen-Dasz ice-cream containers (118mL) that I got on special and kept just for mixing e-juices. When I have to, I pour some juice from the bottle in there and fill my syringes from there to transfer into my RBA's. Whatever leftover there is I can put back into the original bottle with the same syringe by tilting the container to make sure I don't leave any non-negligible amount in there.

 

[mackman]

Some one told me to empty all the remnants into a bottle and vape it.

 

[Ryedan]

Some one told me to empty all the remnants into a bottle and vape it.

I did that before I switched to DIY. It's amazing just how good that mix can become, just how bad it can become or what a judicious addition of menthol will do for it. You have to of course appreciate menthol for the later to work

 

[Rourke]

Some one told me to empty all the remnants into a bottle and vape it.

I tried that too. It works best with higher end juices like NT.