Do you wash all of your recycle rubbish ???

trinidadone

Hello all,

with pressure to recycle more from local councils and residents, I wanted to ask, if you wash out, all of your recycle materials before putting them out for your local council to collect??

Southend1

No............

PasturesNew

Yes I do. It's not hard to do, mostly I just leave them in soak in the sink, then rinse them out thoroughly when I feel like tackling them. I do that for tins and coffee jars and plastic milk cartons - they're all the washables I recycle.

To put a volume on it: 1 milk carton a fortnight, 1 coffee jar every 2 months, 1-2 tin cans/week, one random/other glass jar (maybe a sauce) every 3-4 months.

LittleJohn

Yes, also wash plastic milk bottles and tin cans. The local authority here ask that items to be recycled are washed.

jennifernil

I rinse out milk cartons with cold water, wash tins and jars with my other washing-up. I would not do it on its own.

elsien

Rinse rather than wash. It's still not clean but it stops it from getting too pongy.

nearlyrich

We used to give everything a good wash till we discovered our local authority bungs it all in together....now we just rinse anything that might pong in the bin.

anamenottaken

jennifernil wrote: »

I rinse out milk cartons with cold water, wash tins and jars with my other washing-up. I would not do it on its own.

Me too.

Also yoghurt pots, metal jar lids and plastic bottles and lids (separately).

As an aside:

Why do people put the screw tops back on plastic bottles - when the plastics are different?

Why do people put the tops back on and then discard them as litter in the countryside? They are too lazy and untidy to take them home but make the effort to put the tops back on. I don't get it.

Snakey

Because fieldmice and things crawl into the bottle following the sweet smell of the Coke residue at the bottom, and can't get back out, and die. Why the need to throw anything out of a car window into a hedgerow in the first place is beyond me, but at least the only danger to fieldmice is if one gets hit on on the head by the flying bottle.

Alternative explanation: bottle tops on their own don't "throw" very well, and who wants a footwell full of bottle tops building up?

Kim_kim

No I don't waste the worlds most valueable & precious resource on washing rubbish.

marleyboy

Nope, recycles get taken away to be washed pre-recycle, whether or not they have been pre-washed.