What to do with Idexx Polystyrene boxes??

RE: What to do with Idexx Polystyrene boxes??

Sal the 1st — Sat, 18 Jan 2020 23:14:26 GMT

nah I am just tighter than a duck's a*se and refuse to splash out on something I can adapt for free

RE: What to do with Idexx Polystyrene boxes??

Alison Clare Hickman — Sat, 18 Jan 2020 07:27:45 GMT

Sal the 1st

You defo get the VetNurse Recycling Repurposing Award!!! What a lass!!! X

RE: What to do with Idexx Polystyrene boxes??

Sal the 1st — Fri, 17 Jan 2020 21:53:06 GMT

here's one for anybody with an outside tap before it gets to the freezing bit of the year - cot a slot in the two pieces to fit around your tap and then hold together with a laggy band - forgot I have been doing this for a few years now - saves you buying one of these https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kingfisher-Outside-Cover-Frost-Protector/dp/B00FK08BWO/ref=pd_sbs_86_img_0/257-9007987-6573254?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B00FK08BWO&pd_rd_r=beea75d0-47fa-434a-a6cd-d3475c9d6f73&pd_rd_w=tDgwY&pd_rd_wg=J5hjI&pf_rd_p=e44592b5-e56d-44c2-a4f9-dbdc09b29395&pf_rd_r=D8R85JDWPSVVMWMZRSYQ&psc=1&refRID=D8R85JDWPSVVMWMZRSYQ

RE: What to do with Idexx Polystyrene boxes??

kittyboots — Fri, 17 Jan 2020 11:29:43 GMT

I take it the rep can't collect and recycle them?

In the future we plan to use a few and grow some veggies for the exotics we get in clinic but we have also put them up on facebook and people have taken them. Its shame they cant collect and reuse them considering how many get wasted

RE: What to do with Idexx Polystyrene boxes??

Selena Carnell — Fri, 27 Dec 2019 20:36:59 GMT

freecycle, facebook, rescues some will use them.. apparently good planters for seedings

RE: What to do with Idexx Polystyrene boxes??

Ben Ogden — Mon, 23 Dec 2019 13:15:09 GMT

We've just moved to abaxsis and the packaging is even worse! instead of polystyrene boxes its now polystyrene squares, nightmare! Waiting for the company to get back to me on how I can send my 1-3 boxes a week back to them!

RE: What to do with Idexx Polystyrene boxes??

James Colver Cert. Ed, RVN — Sat, 30 Nov 2019 21:52:48 GMT

Put them on your local facebook marketplace, someone will have them!

RE: What to do with Idexx Polystyrene boxes??

Robyn — Fri, 29 Nov 2019 09:58:33 GMT

Might be worth seeing if any local wildlife rescue centers could make use of them?

RE: What to do with Idexx Polystyrene boxes??

Sal the 1st — Thu, 28 Nov 2019 20:22:27 GMT

we have a few clients with tortoises that use them. I have one of the big, big ones that I have slotted inside a plastic box and made an insulated outside cat box out of which Chalky the semi feral is happy enough to use, I have another in the garden called the Hedgehog Hilton it has been in use a couple of years now, lovely and dry and warm and full of dry leaves and straw and whatever this years guest has dragged in there

I have some of these https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT0Y76_RKlk , we use them for packing delicate aircraft parts and instruments up at the hangars, I use them for transporting warm food for homeless outreach (put a box inside them rather than them inside a box) - as you can see I hardly ever chuck them out. The coolpacks that come with them are great for lunchboxes, cool bags, the outreach group or we keep some to wrap around insulin boxes when owners come to collect insulin in warm weather