Pots versus Bags

[Audi_o_phile]

@krismoriah

I bought some white ones from WM last year. They have already become brittle.

The larger used buckets that I got from the dumpster pile of a local pool service company are still going strong. The flippy plastic handles used on the smaller of the sizes don’t appear to be shot full of a UV stabilizer so they got brittle and are mostly breaking, but the molded in ones are still working well.

@Audi_o_phile

A friend recently mentioned that his work office is right beside another business that does maintenance for household swimming pools, and that they generate a large quantity of waste HDPE buckets that they receive calcium hypochlorite in for the chlorination of pools.

The smaller size that they receive are roughly 6.75 gallons in volume, with a diameter commensurate with a 5 gallon bucket and a plastic flippy handle. The larger buckets are roughly 12 gallons in volume, much larger in diameter and height, and have either two or four handholds molded into the area below the rim.

I used to source a variety of different sized pickle buckets from fast food restaurants, and they were great for all sorts of purposes.