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?

Yes, I would scrape it out with a spatula etc but after DH and DD have filled it with lukewarm water and soap and left it to fester the goo seems to become gooier. It was particularly bad last time as it hadn’t been scraped clean and was full of half concealed lumps.
However, I have given myself a stern talking to and will try not to be so squeamish next time.

I don't have a dishwasher, so I just wash them last using the dishwater half fill, shake & dispose of the water, , 3/4 times and it's clean.

im not sure why I bother though as we have a communal waste system & the mostly lovely, but clearly thick bunch put al kinds of crap in the recycling (toys, broken things incl a rotary washing line) all the wrong kinds of plastic) bloody nightmare, the little of them !

There is a peanut butter brand (P&N) that used plastic jars that were a pig to clean, but I they switched to glass jars, I think.

Might well try giving the dog first dibs in future….if I can keep DH and DD from the ‘soaking’.

I used to put them in the dishwasher, until it had to be repaired as we discovered the peanut butter had clogged the drain hose. My husband leaves knives covered in it too, so there was a lot that the dishwasher was dealing with.

Silicone spatulas are so great at retrieving it from the awkward jar crevices that I don't need to wash the jars any more.

Yanbu- stuff doesn’t have to be squeaky clean to go in the recycling.

There is also another, rather well known, peanut butter brand that used to use glass jars and now uses oddly shaped plastic ones that seem designed for the sole purpose of trapping a significant amount of product in the jar, perhaps to increase wastage and therefore improve sales because people buy more of it.

I won't fall for shit like that, hence the long spoons to scrape out as much as possible. Being the saddo that I am, I weighed the jar when DP declared it 'empty' ie when it started to require effort to extract the remaining PB, and when I thought it was truely empty and the difference was around 10-15% of a full jar.

I don’t recycle anything that requires a lot of hot water, dish soap to clean, it defeats the point in my mind, in the general waste it goes.

I just put things in the recycling bin anyway if I can't be bothered to clean them, it's not like it's going to be traced back to me. I don't imagine "contaminated" recycling can be that much of a problem, given that inappropriate stuff must end up in just about every lorryload of recycling.

Glass jars don't do much damage to the environment, I just bin them. The plastic lid gets recycled though.

I'm like this with the Nutella jar. I don't think the world is going to burn because I put the odd jar in the bin or sling it in recycling without washing it out properly.

I use as much of the peanut butter as I can (because I love it) and stick the unwashed jar in the recycling. I hadn't realised washing recycling was a thing other than a quick rinse if it's something like a tomato tin.

I assume the glass is thoroughly washed at the recycling plant before it is recycled.

Glass is heated to about a million degrees during the recycling process. I'd assume that the odd bit of food left in the jars is vapourised along with the labels, or at least separated off as some sort of sludge.

There are signs on all the bottle banks where I am saying that you don't even need to remove the cap, so presumably they're able to deal with that too.

Thank you @BarbaraofSeville I feel vindicated for my slovenliness 😁

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

This. Just soak it in hot water with some washing up liquid.

What about all the raw materials needed to make it? It's much easier just to heat and reform old glass rather than putting much more energy into mining, purifying, mixing and melting new raw materials to make glass from scratch.

No wonder the world is fucked.

This!
i never have a problem with them if I do this

YOU are not being unreasonable not to recycle it (yourself).
Whoever finished it and left it in the sink to soak is being unreasonable. They should finish the job, and you shouldn't do it for them (or not by binning it) otherwise they are never going to do it themselves.

I've never thought of this, mine would love it.
I don't have peanut butter very often, and when I do it is usually for baking and scraped pretty clean, but the dog will be getting the jar next time.

@BarbaraofSeville exactly this. If the melting down can deal with the labels and and any lid/plastic ring round the bottle/jar neck then I'm sure it can deal with a bit of PB/jam/tomato sauce etc residue. If the recycling process can't handle this then we are just wasting our time even bothering and you are never going to get everyone to clean things spotlessly.

Can also drain through a sieve to stop bits getting in the sink. Peanut butter jars are useful for things like pumpkin seeds.

It’s all my fault 😂thanks for giving me a laugh this morning, I really needed it!

I've got one of these for getting the dregs out of jars
Supoon

Given yourself a stern talking to?

What is this? Just tell whoever finishes it to clean it out, you are wife and mum to these people not a bloody skivvy.