How to break up a plastic storage box?

WastedYouth · 08-07-2020 02:00PM #1

I have a cracked and manky plastic storage box that is too big to fit in a wheelie bin so I need to break it up.

I’ve tried cutting it with a saw but the saw broke and it was taking forever anyway.

I’ve tried jumping on it but won’t give.

I’ve tried a hammer.

Has anyone got ideas?

It is a Wham box I think.

Rodney Bathgate · 08-07-2020 02:04PM

Put it in the ground below a first floor window. Jump out the first floor window so you land on it.

Bury it in the garden.

WastedYouth · 12-07-2020 10:07AM

Rodney Bathgate wrote: »

Put it in the ground below a first floor window. Jump out the first floor window so you land on it.

Bury it in the garden.

Rude, but I think a fitting response.

CarPark2 · 02-09-2020 03:11PM

Put up a photo of it.

crossmolinalad · 04-09-2020 01:49PM

Take a saw normally used to cut timber
would go great
plumbers doing the same with waste pipe

jack of all · 04-09-2020 01:53PM

I haven't found a plastic item yet that wouldn't yield to a sharp handsaw or a ball pein hammer!

WastedYouth · 14-09-2020 10:40AM

I still have the flipping thing.

Got no no-where with a hammer. Sawing takes forever and I honestly never get the time. I still haven't even sawed it enough that it will break.

I'm getting a loan of a blow torch. I know there are other ways to dispose of it like recycling centres but I'm putting this flipper in the wheelie in :P

guil · 22-09-2020 04:20PM

Crazy idea but leave it beside or on top of the bin?

WastedYouth · 23-09-2020 02:50AM

guil wrote: »

Crazy idea but leave it beside or on top of the bin?

AES guys won’t take it.

Has to be in the bin or in a cardboard box as extra recycling m. And I’m pretty sure it exceeds the size of what you leave

All the one anyway. I left the box outside and someone stole it

Suckit · 23-09-2020 03:01AM

Give it to a five year old and tell them not to touch it..

Failing that, Aldi had/have a circular saw for €14. Very handy to have anyway, and that will definitely break it up. Or drill a line of holes.

Wanderer78 · 23-09-2020 04:42AM

WastedYouth wrote:

All the one anyway. I left the box outside and someone stole it

The little ba$tards, we ll find it for you, failing that, we ll do a boards whip around and buy you another one, a bigger and better one

WastedYouth · 23-09-2020 07:35AM

Wanderer78 wrote: »

The little ba$tards, we ll find it for you, failing that, we ll do a boards whip around and buy you another one, a bigger and better one

So much for my opinion that the lockdown and such had made the people better... thank goodness I was wrong!!!

SEPT 23 1989 · 23-09-2020 07:37AM

Cut it up with a Stanley knife

antix80 · 23-09-2020 07:41AM

Burn it

Spon Farmer · 23-09-2020 08:19AM

Feel like people are not reading the thread.

Del.Monte · 25-09-2020 06:58AM

Thread should be moved to AH.

WastedYouth · 25-09-2020 08:20AM

Del.Monte wrote: »

Thread should be moved to AH.

Why? What more is to be discussed?

guil · 27-09-2020 12:36PM

WastedYouth wrote: »

AES guys won’t take it.

Has to be in the bin or in a cardboard box as extra recycling m. And I’m pretty sure it exceeds the size of what you leave

All the one anyway. I left the box outside and someone stole it

It wouldn't be classed as recycling anyway, you should have left it out with the waste bin.

27-09-2020 12:41PM

if it is ice cold it will probably shatter.

How to break up a plastic storage box?

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