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Do you wash your yogurt pots for recycling?

153 replies

Forgottenmyphone · 17/05/2026 10:09

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?

OP posts:
Larrythecatforpm · 17/05/2026 10:10

Good lord, no.

Do you wash your yogurt pots for recycling?
Abouteffingtime · 17/05/2026 10:11

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

Ineffable23 · 17/05/2026 10:11

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

Happytaytos · 17/05/2026 10:11

Shove them in the dishwasher if you cba.

maudelovesharold · 17/05/2026 10:12

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

Galaxylights · 17/05/2026 10:12

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

pizzaHeart · 17/05/2026 10:13

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. 🙂

Limer · 17/05/2026 10:13

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.

nopenotplaying · 17/05/2026 10:13

Quick swish under the tap 😂

Sherwil16 · 17/05/2026 10:13

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.

rwalker · 17/05/2026 10:14

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

MNLurker1345 · 17/05/2026 10:14

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.

FernandoSor · 17/05/2026 10:14

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

Objectrelations · 17/05/2026 10:15

Yes rinse them so clean but not dried!

CookieDoughJoe · 17/05/2026 10:16

Of course. It takes seconds.

mindutopia · 17/05/2026 10:16

Yes

GrandHighPoohbah · 17/05/2026 10:18

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.

Drivingmissrangey · 17/05/2026 10:19

Abouteffingtime · 17/05/2026 10:11

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

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.

JasmineTea11 · 17/05/2026 10:21

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'.

NotTheOrdinary · 17/05/2026 10:22

JasmineTea11 · 17/05/2026 10:21

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'.

🙄

Didn't take long.

PashaMinaMio · 17/05/2026 10:24

Yes!! Of course!

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

ItsmeMargo · 17/05/2026 10:24

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.

SyrupTopped · 17/05/2026 10:25

Always. Dishwasher for difficult ones.

Rosessmelllovely · 17/05/2026 10:25

NotTheOrdinary · 17/05/2026 10:22

🙄

Didn't take long.

Can’t spell it though

RaraRachael · 17/05/2026 10:26

Yes otherwise my recycling bin would stink after 3 weeks