Do you wash your yogurt pots for recycling?

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As if we don’t have enough to do! With young children, I get through a lot of Petit Filous. Do you wash yogurt pots?

Good lord, no.

Yes of course. Recycling should be clean and dry. Same with cans of beans or whatever else.

Well everything that's being recycled is meant to be clean and dry. Otherwise it can contaminate the rest of the recycling.

Shove them in the dishwasher if you cba.

Yes. We keep our recycling in a bin in the garage. If would stink if things weren’t washed out.

Yes I do, I wash all things that can be recycled.

No, not small ones. Some big pots if DH needs them for building/ gardening works.

I offset my not washing by not flying on holidays several times per year. 🙂

I rinse them (and all plastic/glass/tins etc) under a cold tap, I don't wash them as such. If I don't, all the residue makes a mess/smell in the recycling bin.

Quick swish under the tap 😂

Of course. It's the bits left behind that encourage foxes/ crows/ squirrels to attack the recycling bag and scatter everything, making it unlikely that bags will be collected.

You could if washed a weeks worth with the time and effort it took to start and read a thread

I can’t believe anyone is that busy they can’t rinse a yoghurt pot

Yes I wash everything for recycling. My council makes it clear that we must. I don’t find it difficult, a quick rinse. More stubborn stuff goes in the dishwasher.

I wash all recycling in the washing up water after doing the main washing up. Takes no effort.

Yes rinse them so clean but not dried!

Of course. It takes seconds.

Yes

I rinse most things for recycling, dishwasher for stubborn jars. Our recycling is collected once a fortnight and I don't want mouldy bits of food residue hanging around. It takes a few seconds to rinse a small yoghurt pot.

Exactly. Everything gets a quick rinse.

If you don’t have time to give a yoghurt pot a quick rinse OP then you are doing something seriously wrong with your time.

Putting anything dirty in recycling is just grim.

Feeding kids 'petit flour' not much better, poncy French name, but should really be labelled 'sugar and chemicals'.

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Didn't take long.

Yes!! Of course!

I respect my bin collectors too so I keep my bins immaculate too.

I rinse out yoghurt pots: couple of seconds under a hot tap and it’s done. Stick them on the side of the sink to dry off. Same with tin cans.

Always. Dishwasher for difficult ones.

Can’t spell it though

Yes otherwise my recycling bin would stink after 3 weeks