Fork lift dirt totes

I've ended up with a pallet of dirt totes similar to the one in the picture.  I'm wondering if any one has  used these for raised beds? mini hugelbeds? I'm going to try it this spring.

These look identical to what we call a mini-bulk bag here; used to deliver ~2000lbs of feed.

If the material is the same, modern ones are plasticky and not real nice once UV starts breaking it down.

I wouldn't want to use them on my land, unless they were well shielded from UV in a pretty permanent application...

They make really nice potato planters, roll them down to about half height and go from there, here they will survive a couple of years out in the sun before you risk bits of plastic everywhere.

Just think of the thermal mass if they were used in an earthbag house.

Make biochar and sell it by the bag...

They are not UV stable! At least none that I've seen. Too much sun and they flake and tear. They will last for years setting outside, say full of aluminum cans beside my shed, but they won't support a load. Full of something light like cans, I'd say 6 months outside will be ok. Anything heavy like grain or rock, maybe a month, but for me the limit is one day if I'm doing a big sack shuffle. I've resacked so many of those by hand after the straps broke. So you you are going to repurpose them for anything, make sure the sun can't get them.

Sack plastic might eventually biodegrade, but its probably one of those that takes 90 years.

If nothing else a framework over some of my sensitive beds and use them as a frost cover. That way UV exposure would be a minimum and a shortened bag would be easy to store. 25% of them are marked bio degragdable so I'll try a side by side potato bed trial.