To not recycle the peanut butter jar?

[Stillgoingwell]

I don’t eat the peanut butter. ( I would but once I start I can’t stop). DH Orr DD always leaves the PB jar and lid ‘soaking’. This turns the remains ( and today there seemed to be a lot of remains) into a gluey, glutinous mess. I started to clean them out but as the first globby blob hit the sink, I thought to heck with this, and threw it in the bin. Am I bad?

I have done it too. Contents were gross/stuck, so I have just binned the lot.

I find peanut butter jars easy to clean and recycle. Pour in some nearly boiling water from a height and it will push away most of the peanut butter from the insides.

Medicine bottles on the hand are a complete bastard to clean so usually I do not bother with those.

I put them in the dishwasher

Washing up liquid
half fill with hot water
screw lid on tight and shake well

That should improve matters

I have them to our dog. She licked them clean then I'd wash them.

I don’t recycle cat food tins but try and wash out as many other things as I can

I try to recycle everything I can, but I draw the line at peanut butter jars. YANBU!

Scraper type spatula to get as much as possible out. Then half fill with hot water and washing-up liquid and shake.

I recycle most nearly all stuff I can, but never corned beef tins..

Spatula to remove bits.
Hot water. and washing up liquid.
arm workout/shake.

tadahhhh. Done.

im not super fussed about them being spotless as they are cleaned etc at the recycling centre.

Washing up liquid
half fill with hot water
screw lid on tight and shake well

This is what I do. I feel guilty if I don't recycle the container.

Same here.
It’s just laziness to not recycle something because it takes a bit of effort to clean.

Dishwasher here too. Do that with all jars.

How can you be so lazy? Dishwasher? Hot water scrubbing?

It doesn't have to be you but you shouldn't bin it.

Use a mini spatula to get most of it out (you can then eat it) and give it a wash with hit soapy water.

I scrape PB jars clean with kitchen paper then put them in the dishwasher. Horrible job though.

Glass or plastic?

Glass yes, just pour boiling water in and tip out when it's safe to handle.

Plastic no. So little plastic we recycle is genuinely recycled, it's just send to some poor nation to be recycled and ends up in a badly contained landfill or the ocean. Better in a well managed British landfill.

Everything to be recycled in dishwasher, tins and jars. Why not?

You're basically leaving them for your children's generation to sort out. Just wash the bloody things out!

Is this for real

My DH has a severe peanut allergy. On the rare once a year occasion I buy a jar it’s going nowhere near our dishwasher and is kept bagged with a designated peanut butter knife (normally a plastic one that’s been repurposed from somewhere when we’ve been out and given it with something). I also use a takeaway Tupperware lid as a plate which is kept bagged with it.

When it’s done the whole lot is double bagged and binned. I breathe a sigh of relief I haven’t killed him and don’t buy another for 12 months because even though it’s my favourite thing I can’t cope with the stress and hassle.

There is no going near the sink!

Literally everything else that can be is washed and recycled or composted. I often buy from refill places and we have very little general waste so I don’t feel too bad about my annual peanut butter torment!

I do the same, my dog's an expert at cleaning peanut butter jars.

they are cleaned etc at the recycling centre

Ooh that’s handy. Ours don’t, and if even tiny food scrapings/residue are left in recyclables the council starts tweeting manically about CONTAMINANTS and CIVIC RESPONSIBILITY. 🤣

Recycling doesn't need to be spotless, just not half full of old food.

I bought long handled spoons from the pound shop to get as much as possible of the PB out of the jar, but life's too short to be forensically cleaning rubbish.

In any case, I wouldn't be finishing up after people who left things for someone else to deal with to soak.