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I don't know where to put this, but...I finally found a use for all those lids to the containers we use to root, pot, and grow. They aren't deep enough to be used as saucers. They make great little mini cutting boards! The smaller sizes (yogurt, cottage cheese, etc.) are good for only 1-2 items, but the larger ones, like gallon ice cream containers, are good for a whole family. Best of all--there's no washing, just throw it away when finished. What a great idea for camping!
i love that you found a reuse for these. but do you mean plastic lids?
b/c if you mean plastic, you really shouldn't just throw them away afterwards - unless by that, you mean recycle the plastic. otherwise, they are all just ending up in the landfill, or worse, where I live, our city BURNS all our trash - which means releasing horrific dioxins and known carcinogens into fine particles into our air.
i would recommend reusing them as some type of art material, and if you don't need them for this, find a local school or art school to donate them to - they could use the circles to glue photographs onto, paint and decorate.
or, they could be strung up with fishing line and made into a mobile for babies... or somehow attached laying flat onto mini-branches and hung up as bird feeders?
anyhow, just a few other ideas for you! i like the cutting board idea, but i would just throw them in some type of mesh netting bag (an old avocado or onion bag, or cut pair of nylons) and hang them in a creek or river, if you don't have access to running water, and then hang them like that to dry and be reused again.
