Do You Wash Your Recyclable Items Before You Put them in The Recycling Bin?

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@Besoeker

I rinse them out,

Same with us.

[macywack]

i clean out the council recycle bin every 12 months, whether it needs it or not

[PixieKnuckles]

I wash everything out then crumple it up to save room. Don’t want to be the talk of the steamie with my smelly rubbish!

[Besoeker]

Binbusters do it for us - twice a month.

[Tiffany]

@Besoeker

I rinse them out,

@Mags

I rinse my jars, tins, bottles and any cartons, it comes automatically now.

@Bread

Always wash them.

They stink otherwise ewww

@Bruce

I certainly rinse food containers out before they go in the recycling otherwise they would stink and attract flies after sitting in the heat for nearly a fortnight.

@Last_Tango

Ditto here.

@Omah

I wash everything that goes in the recycling bin and I wash the recycling bin after it’s been emptied.

Like all the above, I rinse out all recyclable containers.

@RightNow

We must rinse out all containers before they go in the recycle bins. Peanut butter jars are the worst for me.

Peanut butter jars are definitely the worst to wash out. I should ban my son eating it, horrible stuff.

[Besoeker]

Horrid stuff!

[Mags]

I never buy peanut butter… yuk!

[Danny]

My peanut butter usually comes wrapped in chocolate just a wrapper to throw away.

[SilverTabby]

@Besoeker

Horrid stuff!

It makes nice biscuits!

[AnnieS]

@Maree

Do you hide them under less incriminating recycling? I always lay the wine bottles
on the bottom and put other stuff on the top. Don’t want the neighbours counting

oh this is so funny Maree! Surely it’s difficult to “lay” wine bottles. Don’t they make a racket?

[AnnieS]

@Danny

My peanut butter usually comes wrapped in chocolate just a wrapper to throw away

I’m wondering whether reeses have a different recipe in the US. You can buy them here but they taste like (very high fat/sweet) chocolate covered wood shavings. Yet when I first tasted them in the US in the late 80s it seemed like I’d died and gone to heaven.

[AnnieS]

@SilverTabby

It makes nice biscuits!

can you make biscuits out of peanut butter? (intrigued now).

it’s very nice in a milkshake, not that I can be bothered but I once had a very nice milkshake with peanut butter back in the 90s

[Bruce]

@Tiffany

Peanut butter jars are definitely the worst to wash out.

They are one thing I don’t recycle, I keep them because they are a useful plastic 1kg jar.

When they are empty I just half fill them with scalding water from the hot tap, add a drop of washing up liquid, throw in the scourer, put the lid back on and give it a good shake. Job done!

[SilverTabby]

@AnnieS

can you make biscuits out of peanut butter? (intrigued now).

Oh Yes - and they are delicious!

PEANUT BUTTER BISCUITS

Ingredients
• 200g peanut butter (crunchy or smooth is fine)
• 175g golden caster sugar
• ¼ tsp fine table salt
• 1 large egg

Method

Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4 and line 2 large baking trays with baking parchment.

Measure the peanut butter and sugar into a bowl. Add ¼ tsp fine table salt and mix well with a wooden spoon. Add the egg and mix again until the mixture forms a dough.

Break off cherry sized chunks of dough and place, well spaced apart because they spread, on the trays. Press the biscuits down with the back of a fork to squash them a little. The biscuits can now be frozen for 2 months, cook from frozen adding an extra min or 2 to the cooking time.

Bake for 12 mins, until golden around the edges and paler in the centre. Cool on the trays for 10 mins, then transfer to a wire rack and cool completely. Store in a biscuit tin for to 3 days.

[Maree]

@AnnieS

@Maree

Do you hide them under less incriminating recycling? I always lay the wine bottles
on the bottom and put other stuff on the top. Don’t want the neighbours counting

oh this is so funny Maree! Surely it’s difficult to “lay” wine bottles. Don’t they make a racket?

Well, Yes, I’m sure the recycling blokes are judging me but e have to put our recycling boxes out on the pavement on collection day and I don’t want casual pedestrians having a nose and seeing my shame

[SilverTabby]

@Maree

Well, Yes, I’m sure the recycling blokes are judging me but e have to put our recycling boxes out on the pavement on collection day and I don’t want casual pedestrians having a nose and seeing my shame

We are lucky - our boxes have lids - hide a multitude of sins in them!

[Maree]

@SilverTabby

@Maree

Well, Yes, I’m sure the recycling blokes are judging me but e have to put our recycling boxes out on the pavement on collection day and I don’t want casual pedestrians having a nose and seeing my shame

We are lucky - our boxes have lids - hide a multitude of sins in them!

Ooh, I’d kill for a lid, we’re not allowed.

Doesn’t taking the lid on and off slow down the recycling blokes?

Our lot grab the box quick and tip it into the right compartment on the lorry

[SilverTabby]

@Maree

Doesn’t taking the lid on and off slow down the recycling blokes?

Doesn’t seem to bother them.

[summer]

Those peanut butter biscuits sound lovely…once I have a proper kitchen I might have a go at them.

No lids here on our recycling boxes different boxes for different things…paper and cardboard in one glass metal and plastic in another…yes I rinse out any food in trays tins etc I read somewhere that if you don’t they are rejected anyway so not doing defeats the purpose.

[Lucylulu]

@Bruce

they are a useful plastic 1kg jar

1kg!!..as my grandmother used to say…'A moment on the lips, a lifetime on the hips"