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?

Yes, otherwise your recycling bin will be food of food waste

a 15-30 second rinse under the tap will suffice

In many years of putting plastic into the dishwasher, I have never had a problem with plastic melting and dripping into the dishwasher.

On the off-chance that it’s true about the toxic chemicals, I shall swap to washing plastic things by hand at the same time that I do the other things that don’t go into the dishwasher.

Our city doesn't allow yoghurt pots in recycling same as the punnets fruit comes In. Bottles and cardboard only

Oh and tin cans can be but definitely not yoghurt pots allowed

My dog washes out yogurt pots and ice cream tubs. He'd be most upset if we put them under the tap.

We rinse out everything else, and glass jars go in the dishwasher.

Ours go in the bin as our council doesnt actually recycle yogurt pots 🤔🤣

I'll stick stuff in the dishwasher if there's space. But we have a water meter so I'm not going to do endless running stuff under the tap.

No. Not all all. I don't wash any of the recycling, bloody hell I'm not wasting (extremely expensive) water washing the rubbish! 🤣

You’ve beaten me to exactly what I was going to say!

People with children REALLY don’t like the fact that their yoghurt-pot-washing will never touch the sides of compensating for the kids they’ve had.

Of course I do. It's hardly an arduous task...

This

Yeah same it's crazy

Yes otherwise they'd stink. I just rinse out any recycling in the manky water when I've finished washing up.

Yes of course, otherwise it stinks and contaminates. Put in dishwasher - no effort.

Yes. Just wait until you're washing up anyway

Yes! Takes 3 seconds! Otherwise they’re landfill.

Of course! It takes no effort to swish things at the end of the washing up or run them under the tap! I don’t want my recycling bin to stink!

I do but someone whose neighbour apparently works in the refuse/recycling industry told me that it makes no difference as a lot of recycling is just sent to refuse. I really hope this isn't true!

My DB is a bin man, it's very often the recycling goes in the residual waste lorries.

I use a large saucepan of hot water and washing up liquid and soak all pots in there. I put them on kitchen roll but can’t promise everything is dry. I don’t get everyone saying they know all their recycling is dry because often containers are weird shapes you can rinse out but can’t get into to dry.

There was a thread recently and a number of people said they can’t understand why people have to wash out their bins and I’d guess they’re the people who don’t have to. (I have to wash bins most weeks- there’s six of us a car and a dog)

DramaAlpaca
My dog washes out yogurt pots and ice cream tubs. He'd be most upset if we put them under the tap.

I knew my dog wasn’t fully trained (sorry not sorry😅)

yes. And all cans, jars etc

I give them to the dog to wash out!
His favourite thing ever is to be presented with a yogurt pot.

Not entirely thoroughly, but we give everything a rinse.

Yes I do. Rinse them clean, or sometimes put them in the dishwasher