How do you keep your recycling bin clean without having to rinse everything first?

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Do you put in a liner and change it every time you empty it? I'm fed up of the baked bean juice, chopped toms, yoghurt leftovers ending up smeared all over the place [boak]

We rinse it all as our council says it has to be clean.
You can get clear liners for recycling though.

You are supposed to rinse everything before it goes in the bin.

Rinse it.

Yuk! We wash stuff out and it still gets pretty grim in there.

Rinse it. A lot of it is sorted by hand at the other end. Think of those poor souls who have to endure the bean juice.

We only recycle paper and cardboard.

Why would you not rinse everything first? It takes seconds to do it with the dishes. Surely dirty things in the recycle bin would count as contaminated?

Another rinser here. I give it a quick swish around in the old washing up water to save on water.

You're supposed to wash it.

I wash or rinse it.

Ewk! Can't believe you wouldn't rinse out first!

We rinse out tins before throwing away but also we have a person who comes and washes out wheely bins for £1.50 per bin each month. They are very reliable and do a good job.

I can't believe you don't rinse it! Our council wouldn't take it otherwise.

Our council say that you have to rinse it first so that it's clean.

So we rinse it.

Why aren't you rinsing the tins and bottles out first? Our council requests that we rinse ours, and I guess that your council would like you to as well.

You are just being lazy.

I just checked, and our council says rinse. However I have previously heard that some only say to scrape out so I can see where the OP is coming from.

Our council also says you have to rinse. And if you don't your bin will be foul, so its worth it for that.

I'm afraid I am a compete slattern and I don't rinse first. We empty daily and the bin men have never said anything.

I doubt swishing a bit of water round will make it non-contaminated

We also have the bins cleaned every 4 weeks.

It is not sorted by hand by the way. We have a mixed recycling bin and it all gets sent to a place where it is sorted mechanically.

I don't know why I didn't think to use liners and then just throw them away after.

"I don't know why I didn't think to use liners and then just throw them away after."

More landfill . Just rinse them out you lazy slattern.

Er, you do rinse them or there is little point them being recycled full of food waste!

How revolting.

Our council actually check and you get fined if they find unwashed tins etc in the recycling bin.

And wouldn't they smell in hot weather?

To clarify I didn't mean throw away the liners each time, just when they get manky.

I'm also not chucking half empty cans in there so they're not full of food waste. But I can see I am most definitely in the minority. I admit I am a lazy bugger.

Yes, I swill everything out and leave to dry before putting into recycling bin. There's no wet in the bottom of bin when emptied

Result not perfect but of course I try to clean everything that goes in the recycling bin.

The bin-men won't say anything, but at the recycling facility your dirty recycling will contaminate other recycling & make it all non-recycable. If you're putting really dirty stuff in recycling bin then you may as well forget recycling bin & stick it all in rubbish bin where it will end up, anyway.

(Reusing other plastic bags, I never buy plastic bags for anything) I also double bag all the regular rubbish to try to cut down on the rubbish bin getting manky.