Although the Plastic-Free-July Challenge targets at single use disposable plastic, I am using this opportunity to mention something about my love for glass jars and bottles. Glass is my most preferred material as food storage containers for my pantry. You can see through them and know what’s exactly inside. There is no worrying of toxins leaching into my food. And they are such a breeze to sterilize, take your pick from six methods here.
There are many food items that are already packaged in glass vessels, I always think that it’s such a waste to be buying glass containers (or plastic ones) yet discarding perfectly well pasta sauce jars into the recycling bins instead. Here are some of my favorite reused and repurposed glass jars and bottles, I collect those that come in clean lines and once you remove the labels, they will look totally like the ones that you want to buy from the stores.
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Papa Alfredo pasta sauce jars.
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I love these 680ml pasta sauce wide mouth bottles that do not come with shoulders. They are great for dispensing breakfast goodies such as Milo powder, oatmeal and granola. Covering the lids are my diy beeswax wrap to test out how well them can wrap and mold. I have since been using the wraps for food items instead.
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Prego pasta sauce jar.
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Bottle for my homemade cold brew coffee, perfect on a warm day. I leave the coffee brewing inside the fridge for 1-2 days.
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Daiso rice vinegar glass bottle.
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Cooking oil dispenser. I buy 2L bottles of cooking oil that are quite bulky to dispense during cooking. This glass bottle with a flip cap is perfect. The dispensing hole is also big enough for easy refilling.
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Japanese rice seasoning mix bottles.
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Toasted sesame seeds dispenser.
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Bragg apple cider vinegar bottle (946ml) and preserved olive vegetable bottle.
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Glass water bottle with drinking glass ‘set’. Fill to the brim daily with drinking water and place on the table as a reminder to keep myself well-hydrated.
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Bottled organic milk bought and drank in Korea.
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I brought it all the way home and currently using it to store balance whipping cream from an opened tetra pak carton. I sterilize the glass bottle thoroughly every time before reusing it for storing dairy products.
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Honey bottles.
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Condensed milk and evaporated milk containers.
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Eternity perfume bottles.
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Reed diffusers after removing the spray nozzles.
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(left-right) Cough medicine bottle and essential oil bottle.
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Indoor green display. Brown bottles go really well with fresh green cuttings like these.
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Beer bottle.
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Flower vase.
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Another bottled milk bought and drank during an overseas vacation.
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For another stem cutting display.
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Bragg Apple Cider Vinegar bottle.
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Wrap the bottle body with jute string and turn it into a rustic looking display vase.
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Clarins body oil bottle.
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Bottle filled with water, placed by the warm window for growing new plants from cutting.
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Jam jar bottles.
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Pretty gift jars, with some crafting efforts.
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Nutella 850ml bottle.
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Pretty greeting card-bottle.
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Nutella 1-kg glass bottle.
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DIY piggy bank.
MONO and CO 
These ideas are so lovely.Thanks for sharing such awesome jars repurpose DIY ideas with us.
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