Recycling marmite and Nutella jars

textbook

I clean out mayonnaise etc jars for recycling, do you also need to clean out marmite jars and nutella? Marmite is difficult to ewt completetly clean.

PasturesNew

ALL items I put into recycling are cleaned. If you don't clean them you can contaminate the entire load, thus wasting the time/effort/cost everybody else and the Local Authority have gone to to provide a recycling service.

If you have separate glass collections though, it's less critical as they do wash them and then smash/melt them up ..... but I'd be ashamed to put something grubby in the glass collection.

love_lifer

I keep empty marmite jars then rinse with hot water and use it as stock when Im cooking. Keep rinsing until clean. Works a treat

Norman_Castle

Marmite is difficult to ewt completetly clean.

Leave marmite jars in washing up water for a few minutes or just fill with water to soak then easy to clean.

Some love this method, but some hate it.

sevenhills

PasturesNew wrote: »

ALL items I put into recycling are cleaned. If you don't clean them you can contaminate the entire load, thus wasting the time/effort/cost everybody else and the Local Authority have gone to to provide a recycling service.

I generally do clean jars for recycling, I am sure they would like them as clean as practical.
But each recycle bin goes into the bin lorry, so they would be rejecting a whole lorry full, for a few unclean jars, I dont think that will happen. It will be when people put in non-recycleble items in their recycle bin, and that is emptied in the bin wagon.

Norman_Castle

I don't think it damages the recycling process for bottles and jars but I think food residue makes the process unpleasant as food will become mouldy and will attract vermin.

greyteam1959

I never wash out jars for recycling.
I don't see the point.

Norman_Castle

^ It keeps food waste out of the recycling process.

rach_k

Our council only asks you to rinse things, they don't require a proper wash.

With Nutella, make sure you've removed all of the foil from the seal, add milk, microwave until hot, put the lid on, shake and then enjoy hot chocolate - yum!

squiggles

rach_k wrote: »

Our council only asks you to rinse things, they don't require a proper wash.

With Nutella, make sure you've removed all of the foil from the seal, add milk, microwave until hot, put the lid on, shake and then enjoy hot chocolate - yum!

I wish I had an empty Nutella jar to try this now, what a belter idea.

DigForVictory

If it weren't for the fact my gannets eat nutella in volumes frankly deplorable, I'd be buying it in the glass jars intended for reuse as tumblers.
As for Marmite, I can't make anything resembling a gravy without it & the colocated kettle is no accident.