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Originally Posted by Patience
Does anyone else wash their plastic containers/bottles before putting them into the receycling bags? I've always washed everything. I'm under the impression that people stand at conveyor belts sifting through all this recyclable stuff. But I had a service engineer call to the house one day and I was washing a yoghurt carton and he seemed very surprised that I should wash it at all. So I was wondering am I the only one that does it? Am I mad?
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I wash out all plastic/glass containers, and tetra cartons before sending to recycle. I wouldn't like to handle dirty stuff and wouldn't expect anyone else to either. Keep up the good work!