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?

Why are you only asking about yoghurt pots, do you wash everything else?

How is a quick swoosh at the end of washing up or shoving it in the next dishwasher load hard for people?

Quick rinse with cold water. Not wasting my hot water or detergent on it.

The dog does most of ours. The things she can’t- eg things in glass jars, tins, I wash. I don’t want my recycling bags all manky and mouldy

Yes

Yes, and if something is so dirty that it’s hard to wash, like a tin tray with baked on food, I throw it in main refuse since I thought dirty stuff contaminates recycling and risks the whole lot getting thrown to landfill?

If it goes in the recycling bin it gets washed and drip dried. However not everything gets recycled that should be. Multiple days old dried on yoghurt being one of them.

If there’s room. That’s what I do.

also with some items one of the dogs “chores ” is to clean any suitable food containers ready for recycling

We always wash/rinse the recycling. However I know plenty who don’t 🤮. We had a new guy start in work who kept throwing his soggy teabags into the recycling. So many people don’t seem to know how to recycle.

Ew, yes of course! I rinse everything that goes in recycling and leave it to dry overnight. It should only take a second if you use hot water.

Yes I wash everything. That’s what the council says I’m supposed to do. Also I once had to evict a maggot festival from my main bin and I have no desire to repeat that experience.

I do but I buy those big 1kg pots of Greek yoghurt and add honey / fruit rather than lots of little pots. Everything gets a quick rinse, rather than a full on scrub. I don’t remove paper/ plastic labels from jars/ tins. I know someone who does but it seems like a bit much.

Yes. In the dishwasher. They’d stink otherwise.

Yes

Yes of course.

Yes I just rinse things out.

I only buy natural yogurt in 1kg or 500ml tubs. When I’m finished with them the dog licks them out (his favourite game) and then I rinse them before recycling.
Glass jars certainly go through the dishwasher and bottles get a swish out under the tap. Nobody wants a smelly recycling bag.

Yes. It takes seconds.

yes! also (oat) milk cartons and anything that held food

No. I never wash any recycling.

Rinse out yes

Yeah, I rinse all my recycling, I just do it at the end of washing up.

Buy a big tub of plain yoghurt and add fruit or whatever to it if you're finding smaller pots overwhelming.

Rinsing recycling is a very quick job indeed.

Yes, of course.

Yes yoghurt pots, tins, anything with food residue in. Takes a few seconds at the end of the rest of the washing up. Stops the bins from smelling too.