So what do you loathe washing out to re-cycle? For me, it's the Peanut Butter jar!

[Milliways]

We recycle everything where possible, but I hate the peanut butter jars. You have to soak them for ages - or put them in dishwasher & then scrape the bits of paper label from the bottom of the washer.

Most other jars just rinse straight out.

Oh, and cooking oil bottles.

DO you ever just think, I recycle everything else, that jar can go in the bin.....

Peanut butter jars are definitely the worst. And for some reason when you leave them to soak overnight, the soaking water STINKS especially badly the next day.

I must confess to occasionally just binning them when I feel too grimmed out

Cat food tins

Ah Betty, we use the very eco-unfriendly cat pouches

But the dog-tins usually rinse fine & not too smelly.

Glad it's not just me with the P/nut Butter - & we get through a jar a week!

I hate the peanut butter jars too, and smelly fish tins.

I have to confess to not washing oil bottles before they go in recycling

Deffo the cooking oil bottles - I just threw one out the other day, because we've been having a problem with the drain and I think I'd have to use half a bottle of washing-up liquid to be sure I'd really emulsioned all the oil and not just warmed it up and sent it down to clog the drain again.

Not sure how one unrecycled plastic bottle compares with half a bottle of washing-up liquid in the bad-for-the-planet stakes...

Put it all in the dishwasher.

washing up liquid bottles as it takes ages they just get full of bubbles i cant get rid of! and jam jars!

cat food tins

Pnut Butter 3, Catfood 2

Pesto!

But i did read something that said that the industrial washing process for glass means you shouldn't bother. Wish I could remember where as I wonder if I imagined it!!!

We don't eat peanut butter, but can imagine! Pesto is oily and hard to get out!

PAssata

I do sometimes wonder if it really is more environmentally friendly to recycle, given the water and detergent we use to clean them, and then the industrial cleaning and sorting it all goes through before it even gets to the stage where it can be broken down and made into new stuff. That's an awful lot of energy!

But if we left it out in the recycling bins unwashed, we would be over-run with foxes, rats etc.....

I don't have peanut butter, but marmite jars take a lifetime

Ketchup.

Mayonnaise.
I put it in the landfill bin.

I am ashamed!

flamesparrow -with Marmite jars add some boiling water and give it a shake then use the liquid in your cooking

Oooh I love you!

mayonnaise (it kind of curdles - ugh)
and soya milk cartons

brilliant hint about the marmite!

ooh, I've pulled

choc spread jars. Agggh!

margarine tubs

I give the marge tubs to the dog to lick out - problem solved! Good for his coat, too.

Can't put marg tubs in our recycle bins! Our vet recommended putting marg on our old dogs food when he had skin problems!

Agree on the peanut butter jar and washed a mayo jar the other day and at 8 weeks pg it made me feel ill!