This polyethylene bottle, which I probably bought at the REI store in Seattle in 1979, served me well through 2009.

Its first assignment was to carry wine on a backpacking trip in October 1980 (Upper Wildcat Lake, north of Snoqualmie Pass). No doubt I took cheese with me to go with the wine. Eventually its mission changed from wine bottle to bottle for stove fuel during backpacking hikes.

Later, it served the same purpose on road trips through 2009. It always was inside one or two plastic bags to capture leaks (never had any). I have two metal fuel containers, but they are too big to take on hikes and are too tall to fit in the tote boxes I used on road trips. In 2010 I bought a small MSR fuel bottle to replace this noble servant on road trips. Then this got recycled so its molecules can become part of something new.