Girl, I got latex gloves and ziplocks on me at all times.
I think they might be a message from the universe or something.
@Czarcasm, I care. They’d make cute salt and pepper shakers.
And even cuter bottles of booze.
I’m tryna reduce by reusing 
The Crown Royal mini-bottles are glass. Most of the others are plastic.
Oooh. I love those.
Thx.
I read once in a PJ O’Rourke book of a Marine division in Somalia who glued little red loops on their empty Fireball bottles and hung them on a fake Christmas tree in their dining hall. But @Beckdawrek’s inspiration to use them as salt and pepper shakers is nice too. Tho a teetotaler, I could fill my spice drawer with those from the party store next to me.
I used to wonder about why I always saw so many floss picks in sketchy parts of town.
Then one fine evening I broke a tooth. It didn’t hurt, and I set an appointment to get it repaired in a month or two. In the interim, even though there was no pain, I was constantly dealing with food getting wedged into the now large gap between one tooth and its neighbor. I found myself carrying around dental floss for just this situation.
Then I put it all together: A person who has a broken or missing tooth will struggle with food getting stuck in the gap, and will likely carry around floss or … floss picks!
And it stands to reason that unrepaired dental issues are more likely in lower income areas.
Now, put that together with the attitude that the mini-bottle consumers have and you get the odd combo.
Huh. I feel like I live in an alternate universe. Sure, the Fireball whiskey bottles I see everywhere. But dental floss picks? The only ones I’ve ever seen are in the medicine cabinet and I don’t use them. Hell, I didn’t even know they existed until about five years ago. But I’m outside, right now, walking around the city (Chicago, and not the burbs) and I see the occasional bottle, but haven’t come across a dental pick yet.
I live in a middle-class area. I’ll say that when I was at the grocery store yesterday, the man in line behind me at the can deposit station said I should go downtown, and take a bag with me.
I don’t really know how to describe what my trash-picking crew finds in Southern California but am curious if it’s widespread. We’re finding empty footlong 2-3 lb nozzled bottles of whipped cream spray. I imagine massive groups of people must be huffing it. It seems to really be a new trend. Do you see these bottles in your area?
Sucking nitrous out of whipped cream vessels goes back quite a long time.
I’m not familiar with the description of the vessel of which you speak.
The local bottle redemption center won’t take the mini-bottles/nips AND they are exactly under the minimum size for our recycling program…
They are Great Whip 640 gram Master Cream Chargers with nozzles on them. Our crews have been finding maybe ten of them per day in the bushes and they’ve mostly been found far from restaurants and ice cream places. I even saw them today on display in a liquor store; this last part stemmed my spotting it as a new trend.
Maybe the liquor store could offer a deposit return kind of a deal. Get a free one if you bring in 10 empties.
That works for me as I always have a can of bottles going for cash. 
The giant whipits are a relatively new thing. Just more convenient than the litte one-off cartridges. The hippies love em.
Here in the burbs, I bet I see one in the Jewel parking lot at least every other visit.
Maybe I’ll have to check out the parking lots. I do kind of scan for them when I remember when I’m taking my dog on his 3-mile walk, but I’ve yet to see any dental picks. Plenty of those Fireball bottles, and plenty of empty beer bottles.
I also see them occasionally at larger road intersections (when crossing on foot or bike). My guess is some special breed of slob uses them while stopped at a light then tosses them out the window.
A video I saw on their usage wasn’t hippies. It was addicts passing out in their cars with empty cans strewn about. It’s sad and not a fun party thing.