Those makeshift containers are the ones where problems have arisen recently.

Even vegetable packing cases can offer makeshift containers for situations where the visual quality of the container is not important.

He fashioned a palm leaf into a cup, climbed down to the lake, and scooped up water in the makeshift container.

The court heard that, although expertly prepared and audited cases of demonstration ammunition should have been used by instructors, some made do with makeshift containers.

On Monday, it said makeshift containers being used to store tens of thousands of tonnes of contaminated water were almost full.

People risked potential explosions and swamped the truck, stealing fuel in buckets, pots and other makeshift containers.

I was home earlier than I'd intended, concerned that calf brain would leak out of the makeshift container and contaminate the interior of my shoulder bag.

He said that involved using various makeshift containers such as the Quality Street tin to store rounds, something that had been going on for up to 10 years.

There are glass jars that look like something from a chemist's lab, as well as makeshift containers that used to hold peanut butter or vegetable oil.

Risking his own life, Kapaun would sneak out after dark to scrounge food for those too weak to eat, fashion makeshift containers to collect water and wash their soiled clothes.

Are gasoline and other flammable liquids stored in safety cans (never glass jugs, discarded bleach bottles, or other makeshift containers) and away from heat, sparks, and children?

"Apparently, they ran out in one (lavatory) half-way home and couldn't bother to transfer a roll from another," wrote the original poster, who included a photo of the napkins found inside a makeshift container.

It is referred to along with Grammatophyllum as a "trash basket" orchid due to its odd habit of creating a makeshift container of aerial roots to catch falling leaf litter for nutrients.

Although the instructors should have used expertly prepared and audited cases of demonstration ammunition, some bullets were kept in makeshift containers including a Quality Street tin, a Tupperware box and a baby-food tin, the court heard.

When one of these makeshift containers recently sprang a leak, it apparently took weeks before the company's two-person foot-patrol passed by and noticed it, by which time 300 tons of highly contaminated water had seeped out of the tank.