Do you rinse out recycleable tins and bottles ?

amanda40

Yep I wash them all out, milk bottles, jars, cans, not on a meter, but even if I wasI still would. I just think of the persons whos job it is to sort, imagine the mess if folk put in dirty jars eyc.

exlibris

Am I alone in using the rinsings of the squash bottle to mix the squash? Am also tring to get OH to rinse out his rum bottle with the coke he is going to mix with it but I have not succeeded yet.

Our recycle men hand sort into the wagon, nad though they wear gloves, I would hate their job!

savvy

Our council do ask that they are cleaned out, sometimes use washing up water, sometimes not, depending on what's convenient at the time.

We've got fortnightly collections too, and once, I had my neighbours bin by accident, it was filthy and stank, he didn't realise you weren't meant to clean them out first!! :rolleyes::rolleyes: Felt sorry for the poor sorters going through his stinky stuff!!

savvy

exlibris wrote:

Am I alone in using the rinsings of the squash bottle to mix the squash?

LOL no you're not!!! :D

arkonite_babe

Rikki wrote:

I always rinse mine, just use the washing up water when you've finished washing up.

This is what our house does too.

I can sympathise with savvy as well, cos we had a neighbours recycling box once by mistake and it honked :eek: :rolleyes: