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How to break up a plastic storage box?

  • 08-07-2020 1:00pm
    #1
    Registered Users Posts: 164 ✭✭


    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.


Comments

  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,445 ✭✭✭Rodney Bathgate


    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.


  • Registered Users Posts: 164 ✭✭WastedYouth


    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.


  • Registered Users Posts: 472 ✭✭CarPark2


    Put up a photo of it.


  • Registered Users Posts: 837 ✭✭✭crossmolinalad


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


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,353 ✭✭✭jack of all


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


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  • Registered Users Posts: 164 ✭✭WastedYouth


    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


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,470 ✭✭✭✭guil


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


  • Registered Users Posts: 164 ✭✭WastedYouth


    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 :p


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,215 ✭✭✭✭Suckit


    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.


  • Registered Users Posts: 28,703 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    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


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  • Registered Users Posts: 164 ✭✭WastedYouth


    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!!!


  • Registered Users Posts: 43,017 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Cut it up with a Stanley knife


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,419 ✭✭✭antix80


    Burn it


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,155 ✭✭✭Spon Farmer


    Feel like people are not reading the thread.


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,363 ✭✭✭✭Del.Monte


    Thread should be moved to AH.


  • Registered Users Posts: 164 ✭✭WastedYouth


    Del.Monte wrote: »
    Thread should be moved to AH.

    Why? What more is to be discussed?


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,470 ✭✭✭✭guil


    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 :p

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


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    if it is ice cold it will probably shatter.


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