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 on earth wouldn’t you?

I do yes. But some things I give up on.
Things with labels that cannot go in the dishwasher. And things that are very sticky /hard to get to.
I am mindful my water bill is just going up and up. I cannot spend ages rinsing stuff out.
Personally I think the recycling people should invest in machines that do the cleaning.

No.

No - but then all our recycling goes into one bin, and I've seen what the neighbours put in theirs. It often gets wet as the wind blows the lid up (we do put a rock on it, but sometimes that doesn't help), and more than once I've watched the bin men put the recycling and general waste into the same lorry anyway.

I already have enough on my plate taking glass, and other cans to the various recycling points. If they want me to wash it too then it can just go in the general waste.

Always wash and dry recycling

Yes. Rinse under cold tap. Takes 5 seconds

Yes of course. Yoghurt comes off easily under the hot tap, other things I put in the dishwasher.

We don't have a dishwasher and wash up by hand, so any recycling gets a quick slosh in the bowl once everything else is done.

If I feel well I wash the recycling (or put in dishwasher).

If I feel ill/exhausted (which is often) I don't. It's easy to be virtuous when you're well.

BTW, I think 17 percent of plastic is recycled :/. Most of it is burnt or shipped abroad. Info available on Greenpeace website.

Sounds a lot like apples. They are all “sugar and chemicals”. Should we stop feeding kids apples?

Yes of course I do.

Yes!

Anything else and you're either a lazy slob or a grubby minger! IMO at least.

Could part of this reason be, because according to a lot of people here “clean and dry” recycling is just too difficult for them, but is what’s required to be able to recycle things here?

What is "petit flour"?

Just rinse while doing the dishes. My bin would stink by the four weekly collection date. I power wash my plastic recycling bin monthly. I pay to have the landfill and food/garden waste bin washed monthly

Yes

Erm nope. If it’s gotta be washed it goes in general waste

Yes I do. There is just me here. Kitchen too small for a dishwasher so I wash up in the sink once at the end of the day. I wash any recycling pots, jars, soft plastic then. All washing up left to drain overnight then put away next morning.

I don’t disagree there are many privileges to being healthy, but putting a yoghurt pot in the dishwasher along with the other dishes doesn’t seem like something remarkably difficult even for someone who isn’t doing well.

yes but i admit not the dog food cans

Yup - or they won’t get recycled

Nope. It goes into the general.

Yes I wash everything that can be recycled.Tins, bottles, jam jars etc.

Jfc, it takes literally 10 seconds to rinse a yoghurt pot under the cold tap if you it do as soon as it’s finished with (ie before the remnants dry solid).

As for all the people who have proudly stated they just chuck theirs in the general rubbish and don’t recycle - I have no words. Actually, yes I do: lazy, ignorant and selfish.