Reuse before recycle

Bea Johnson of The Zero Waste Home blog established a 5 R's hierarchy -in this order- refuse, reduce, reuse, recycle and rot. The other day I mentioned that I had reduced my waste and had a significant increase in recycling.  I decided I would reuse some items before just tossing into the recycle bin, consistent with the 5 R's hierarchy.  

I collected a couple glass juice jars from store purchases and sterilized them just like I would do with a baby bottle.  

I took all the ripe lemons from my tree and juiced them for my own home made lemon juice. I get fresh lemon juice from my garden, reuse something instead of recycling it, and avoid the purchase of a plastic lemon juice dispenser!  Oh, and my kitchen smells like fresh lemons!

I found some Ball brand jar labels from Amazon that wash right off the jar!