Can you recycle latex/plastic gloves?

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Anyone else think throwing them out is a waste?

I have been using gloves when I shop but hate the waste. I know we are meant to be keeping ourselves safe but surely there is a way to recycle these. Plus they are a bit scarce and very costly for what they are.

I'm thinking, take them off, leave for a while (any virus to die) and dump them in a bowl of disinfectant and then dry on your line?

Anyone else do this?

You don't have to wear gloves sanitize your hands before and after the supermarket my dh wears gloves and sanitizes those so he can re use them ,but no they can't be recycled.

By all means try it but ime gloves go a bit weird once they’ve gotten wet, they seem to a bit crinkly and more prone to tearing.

I feel like your method would work better for thicker washing up gloves but you’d definitely need a thick skin to carry those off in public!

If your only using them for shopping then washable cotton gloves would do the same job, or simply wash your hands would be better for the environment.

Unfortunately a lot of ppe isn't reusable but in a medical setting this is nessesary to stop the spread of infection and cross contamination. For shopping it's pointless and wasteful.

I saw a woman on her daily walk rocking the marigolds

Yes you can recyle

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TV Dr is just saying wearing gloves is pointless .

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TV Dr is just saying wearing gloves is pointless .

To be honest I would agree with this. Gloves should be used per task then changed/discarded otherwise it’s just a second skin doing exactly what your unwashed hands would be doing.

That being said for the purposes of something like a supermarket shop I can see the logic, but it is much better to wash/sanitise your hands because gloves tend not to be changed as often as they should be or hands washed as often.

I can see why people want to wear them for their own peace of mind but they really are unnecessary and washing them will just weaken them so they can split,

As someone Dr Chris on This Morning said gloves are pointless. Wash and sanatise before and after shopping.

If you are wearing gloves outside of home as PPE then they are classified as clinical waste as are face masks. They should be put into a clinical waste bag or into a bag such as a nappy bag so if anyone comes into contact with them they can’t be infected by pathogens you’ve picked up while wearing them. That was my clinical infection control answer. In real life put them in your normal non recyclable waste. As long as no one is likely to be handling them after you they should be safe. They are not recyclable.

I do think we need to wear gloves in supermarkets, plus take our own wipes. Some of them wipe the trolleys but they don't wipe the edge of the shelves. I asked a few and they said no they didn't. So, you have 000's of people a day touching the edge of bread shelves and milk trollies and no one is wiping them. Ewww.

A lot of these supermarkets are just giving this lip service with no thought. Aldi wipes trollies but then lets in groups of 4 at a time. Tesco ask you to get your trolley, then once you have held onto it for 1/2 hour waiting in the queue, you can wipe it at the entrance.

Taking your own wipes and hand gel is going to be more beneficial than gloves though supermarkets can't disinfect shelf edges because it might be against health and safety rules, when you have gloves on you can just be spreading virus about are you wiping shopping down when you get in?

Just wash your hands, even if you're wearing gloves, you touch something and you could potential have virus on your gloves, then you touch something else and moved the germs so gloves are literally pointless. Plus people dont dispose of them correctly so you're risking even more cross contamination

I hate seeing people in shops wearing gloves...your gloves become your hands when you wear them so as long as you don't touch your face with your hands or anything else like your mobile phone then bare hands are fine. Just wash them!! I had a patient come in with surgical gloves on, they were filthy. I asked him to take them off and dispose of them at home.
You pick up the shopping with gloves, touch the shopping bags with gloves, your phone with your list on it etc etc then you take your gloves off and touch the bags in the car ...no need at all there's a brilliant video on YouTube that explains it all ..save the planet and don't use gloves unless in a clinical setting.