to wonder why you don't wash/rinse your recycling?

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Sorry, this has probably been done before.

We have an excellent kerbside recycling collection here. I know many people who don't rinse their recyclables as "Why should I?" "I can't be bothered" "Eh, why would I do that?"
For me, it's just an extension of washing up. Dishes get washed, pots get washed, then recycling gets washed. It sits on the draining board to drip dry then makes it's way to the recycling bin.

Do you? Those who don't, why not?

I wash (well rinse really) tins and bottle etc but not juice cartons or milk cartons as i just close the lid and throw in the recycling bin we keep in the kitchen. I only sort it out once a week so if i didn't wash things then my sorting bins would stink. We have 4 bins, one small grey for general rubbish (collected fortnightly), one green for food and garden waste (weekly collection), blue for paper (monthly collection) and black for tins, plastic and glass (monthly collection).

I'm too busy washing my chicken

Seriously did everyone else get a 'rules of recycling' handbook or something?! I just got some recycling bins and a list of what to put in them. No rules around washing/taking bottle lids off etc.

I'm afraid I google this kind of stuff in detail, whenever they change the kerbside scheme or I move borough councils. I appreciate I'm not normal with this!

I don't. Because it wouldn't be very green. You're wasting water to wash something that will be washed anyway.

Oh, milk bottles... That's different. I can't let them stand and stink outside my door, so yes, I wash them.

Ain't nobody got time for that!

I rinse my milk cartons but nowt else!

I am shocked, completely shocked at this thread!
I am an utter slattern by most people's standards, but I was out the recycling.
Surely it just reeks otherwise?

EstRusmum- I use the water at the end of the washing up, rather than run fresh water. Grey water system, if you will.

Yes, I always rinse out stuff to go into the recycling box - mainly because it sits outside the back door for at least a week and would attract flies and rats. Besides, it is slovely NOT to. Yuk.

Sort of - I swill it out so it doesn't attract rats/other pests. But don't wash it like I would cutlery or a plate.

My husband spends bloody ages washing everything for recycling. I think he is mad. With a big family the recycling is never ending.

He does all the recycling but when he was in hospital I didn't and wouldn't wash a thing, much to his disgust.

Cannot be arsed and the thought has never even occurred to me until this very moment. I don't iron my knickers either. Or anything else for that matter.

I wash it because it would be all sticky in the bag otherwise and I recycle meat containers so I don't want the bacteria on them jumping around.

I live in a studio flat so always wash mine, though people find it odd but there's nowhere else to keep it and we don't have recycling so it's a trip to local recycling bank. Used to have recycling bins but lazy Sod's would thrown all in so council refused to empty them in our flats but do all the houses on our street!