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I always wash bottles and tins etc out before putting them in my recycling collection as I thought you had to. My partner is Spanish and in Spain you don't have to clean them first.

Some plastic and glass bottles are impossible to clean ie oil bottles with a narrow opening.

What to do?

2007-02-18 04:47:15 · 13 answers · asked by spanishkitties 1 in Home & Garden Cleaning & Laundry

13 answers

try these:

http://www.wasteonline.org.uk/resources/InformationSheets/HouseholdersRecycling.htm

http://www.recycle-more.co.uk/nav/page549.aspx

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/4618699.stm

these might work

i hope so

;D

2007-02-18 05:08:54 · answer #1 · answered by recycled thoughts 4 · 0 0

My recycling is only collected fortnightly so I do rinse everything out - the house would smell of rotting food otherwise!
If I've used a tin of curry sauce I put the tin in the dishwasher because rinsing it doesn't get rid of the smell.
With bottles, I just put some water in them, cover the top and give them a good shake! If they're oily I add a bit of washing up liquid to the water, then leave it to drain into the sink overnight.

2007-02-18 06:41:10 · answer #2 · answered by chip2001 7 · 0 0

You always swill out things like this because they can go mouldy and smell. Most recycling in the UK is sorted by hand so I guess it makes their job nicer if there's no minging bits inside the bottles etc. Perhaps in Spain they just do it mechanically?

2007-02-18 04:51:20 · answer #3 · answered by Minky 2 · 0 0

No you do not need to clean them.

They are taken away and broken down into "Cullet" which is then re-melted at very very hot temperatures in a furnace, any residual liquid etc will be well gone before the glass is reused

Just recycle whatever the condition

2007-02-18 04:50:54 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

No you don't, its just nicer if you're going to have them hanging about for awhile. Stops smells and is less likely to attract vermin. The treatment processes will clean the bottles and tins.

2007-02-18 04:51:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Personally I'd rinse the tins out but I wouldn't bother with the bottles.

2007-02-18 20:12:58 · answer #6 · answered by trixie 2 · 0 0

Do your best and thats it really.Just dump them in the dish water after washing dishes give them a good shake then recycle at least you will have tried.

2007-02-18 05:19:02 · answer #7 · answered by taxed till i die,and then some. 7 · 0 0

Youre doing the right thing, its a hygiene thing, can you imagine haveing to deal with hundreds of cans with food waste in them.

2007-02-18 04:51:44 · answer #8 · answered by John S 4 · 0 0

No, no longer incredibly. yet while they lay around on your place in the past they bypass somwhere it ought to attraction to bugs.... We rinse ours out in the past they bypass in our recycling bin in the storage.

2016-11-23 16:48:34 · answer #9 · answered by tabbitha 4 · 0 0

I don't clean mine and they happily take them each weds.

2007-02-18 04:51:13 · answer #10 · answered by Dan M 1 · 0 0

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