1. Do Not Use Already Broken Eggs (And Their Carton)
You open the package, take your egg and you realize that it is already broken: this is not a good sign, and it doesn’t matter if you suspect that you broke it during transport. You will never be sure that you didn’t buy it already broken, which is why it would be better to avoid using it, unless it was broken right when it was being prepared and consumed immediately, within a few hours at most. A broken egg, in fact, could have passed any germs and bacteria present on the shell inside the food, making it unsafe. For the same reason, it would be best to avoid using egg cartons to contain other food, especially if they contained eggs that were already broken: if the eggs were contaminated, the bacteria could remain on the carton. So yes to creative recycling to create handcrafted objects, no to reusing cartons for new eggs or other foods.
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