Not recycled - but here is

http://www.usplastic.com/catalog/default.asp
click on bottles on the left
Then Jars on the right top picture

Then down three on the left is Pet(r) Clear Jars for Packing. [ a.k.a.
food qualified ]
Now you can pick from 8 sizes.

Perhaps you can find better shapes than peanut size for samples - e.g.
half height...

Other plastics available.

Martin

Frederick W Schueler wrote:
> Conchologists,
>
> I wonder if anyone knows of a source for recycle class 1 PETE wide-mouth
> jars for keeping big samples of shells or drifted material. We used to
> largely depend on peanut butter jars from a soup kitchen (see picture at
> http://pinicola.ca/cldm.htm ) but those aren't available, and we're
> overwhelmed with frozen and dried samples. We've now got some money to
> buy jars, but we can't find a supplier: evidently manufacturers are
> unwilling to ship small quantities, and the local food container
> suppliers don't stock things that don't stack, as jars don't.
>
> I wonder if anyone else stores specimens in this kind of container, and
> if they have a more direct way of getting them than just urging their
> spouse to buy products that come in suitable jars.
>
> fred.
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