While on the subject of dishwashers - AIBU to put jars/tins in teh dishwasher before sticking in the recycling?

[MamaG]

mate says so

says there's no point recycling if I'm going to put them in my dishwasher monster first

They don't have a special wash - just get bunged in with the daily pots

I don't think IABU

But if IABU, I will ignore you all and continue to wash em in the dishwasher.

:S Are they not just going in the bin anyway? I never ever ever rinse/wash my rubbish.. sounds bizzare! There is probably maggots in the green bin? And well, bins smell anyway don't they, so why's the blue bin any different...

Our recycling bags say "clean refuse only" on the side of them.

Must be pretty minging for the person who has to sort the recycling if you don't wash it first hollyandnoah.

wait wait.. I just read someone elses comments scrub mines I thought you were washing them to put them in the wheelie bin? Do you get the coloured wheelie bins where you are? We have green, blue and brown. Green is general, blue for paper, bottles, tubs ect and brown for garden waist like grass n that :| I think some places still have recycle men and blue carrier bags.. (sorry if im wrong) I'd wash them up if i had the recycling bags or little boxes for indoors. Sorry!

We just put ours out in bags/a box and the men sort through them

Mingo not to wash them I feel

yeh backgammon, im sorry, lol i didnt realise that you were talking abouyt bags, our blue bins just get picked up on mondays and tipped into the bucket lorry same as green bins.

yeh, gotcha, we dont have that system, but i do see what you mean and i would indeed wash if some was hand picking through it. sorry

our recycling goes in a green wheelie bin which I hose out every week in hot weather and every other week or so in colder months

oo our normal goes in the green one. I don't hose it out though, we have a wee wheelibin cleaner van that comes round sometimes.

YANBU, i do the same

Fair enough, if you're putting a wash on anyway, I suppose.

I put glass jars into the dishwasher, but I rinse tins. We don't use that many tins anyway.

If I was spending time washing a label off, I'd just rinse the jar under the tap at the same time.

You dishawashing lot are bonkers in teh bean. I don't think you realise that you give yourselves much more work than just washing in the sink.

UANBU - I do that - if it's going to sit in a recycling box for a week or more I want it to be clean .

I do this too so you're not alone. As you say it's going on anyway and I'd prefer them to be clean because I only take them to the bottle bank every once in a blue moon so they sit in the house for ages and would smell otherwise plus I hate actually scrubbing them out by hand.