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?

Oh, have a day off.

I just give them a quick rinse, more to spare my recycling bin than anything else.

Me too. Barely an extra minute, and that includes all the scrunchy plastic.

Of course I do. Recycling gets washed when doing the dishes, no great hardship. The rules are very clear where I am - recycling has to be clean and dry, if you can't get it clean then its better to put it in mixed waste to be burnt than contaminate the recycling.

This. Also I don’t want my bin to smell. It's not particularly arduous.

I once went to someone’s house where they didn’t wash their recycling, and I was astonished - it wouldn’t have crossed my mind not to wash it. Sorry, OP, but to put dirty pots in the recycling is just grubby.

Seems to me that in order to save the planet by recycling, we must waste a lot of water getting the recycling clean! That bothers me a lot, but I do it. I hate using fresh water so as often as possible I'll use leftover water in the sink etc. But I don't wash up at the sink, it all goes in the d/w. I wish there was a way to harvest the waste water from the w/m and d/w. I'm sure there is, but no doubt it would cost a bomb and there would be pipes and buckets/receptacles all over the place. There's a lot of work involved (and sometimes funds) in recycling!

Anyway, to answer the question, yes everything I put in recycling is clean and dry as best I can. No point otherwise as it contaminates if not.

If that astonishes you I'd hate to see how you react when something serious happens.

Of course!

Yep.

Rinsing out yoghurt pots is one of the more satisfying adult tasks - because it all comes out so nicely. See also chopped tomato tins. Is this just a me thing?

Of course, everything that goes into the recycling is washed - yoghurt pots, tins, bottles. We wash up at the sink (no dishwasher) so do it then. No extra water needed and barely any extra effort.

Is this some sort of thought-experiment?
A week after we celebrated David Attenborough and his save-the-planet ethos, asking the people who are raising the next generation if they can be bothered to spend a few minutes doing a very easy save-the-planet task.

For the avoidance of doubt: I wash yoghurt pots and either use them myself (gardening, DIY, etc) or recycle them. <Polishes halo>

Astonished is just a word, not a slur.

It does actually astonish me, when I am out for the day and my DH, puts unwashed food packaging from a heat and serve into the recycling bin, despite being told not to.

Luckily it doesn’t happen often and it doesn’t take long to start to smell. Astonished, yes!

Of course.

I wash all plastic food packaging except for the sort of containers that soft fruit comes in, which generally stay very clean.

I also wash most food-related soft plastic before taking it back to the supermarket for recycling.

Blimey 😂

Of course. Putting dirty things out for recycling is gross.

Yes, our recycling is checked and they won’t take it if it’s not clean, plus we keep our recycling boxes outside by the back door and they would attract pests if there was still food remnants in them.

DH moans at me for having to rinse out our rubbish… I remind him it’s recycling not rubbish. I really don’t want a stinky, filthy bin so rinsing out solves that problem. There’s always a bit of manual washing up to do so it’s no great hardship.

Yes, even if you don't believe the recycling story, someone's got to handle them at some point and they'd stink otherwise.
It's hardly an effort though. We jdon't make a special effort, just do them last, before throwing out the washing up water.

Yes. Obviously. Takes 4 seconds

Always. It keeps the recycling bin clean and makes it less unpleasant for the people who handle it down the line.

Yes of course. It contaminates the whole recycling load otherwise making it useless

No - it's my dogs job

Yes - it takes a second