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i'm thinking of foods like peanut butter and jelly which are hard to rinse or wash clean. i understand the plastic lids generally are made of a different type of plastic that shouldn't be recycled with the jars, but are the jars okay to recycle or are they just solid waste?
Squirt a bit of dish soap in the jar, fill it with warm water, and in the morning, the peanut butter will come right out. The bottom of the jar will indicate the type of plastic. Call your recycling company to check on its recyclability. If it's a 5 and your program dos not accept that type of plastic, Google "Gimme 5" to find a collection site near you. I generally drop mine in the Gimme 5 bin at my local Whole Foods.
I'm big on re-purposing, using re-usable things whenever possible and recycling certain metals like iron, copper & aluminum.
But recycling plastic and many other things is simply not cost effective and does little for the environment. When accounting is done properly, recycling many common things actually uses more energy than just dumping them and making a new one.
Before you lose any sleep over your dilemma, check this humorous but factual treatment of the question: Trilulilu - Video, Muzica, Imagini
That ignores the fact that recycling keeps the plastic out of the landfill.
Watch the video I cited-- the myth about landfills was started by a bureaucrat in the Nixon days trying to ensure he would have a job, creating "a problem" where none actually existed.
The USA is composed of 3,800,000 sq mi and all the landfills put together total 30 sq mi. Landfills that have been completed are turned into parks & recreational areas- in better condition afterwards than they were before.
"Collect facts before making policy decisions" is radicalism of the worst kind. This would devastate the employment levels of government planners and their private sector consultants. The point of government planning and policy, and too often private sector, p & p is to correct mistakes with more mistakes so people can retire from this work.
Re: plastic jars. I wash them and toss them and their lids into the recycle bin. What happens next is somebody else's problem.
"Collect facts before making policy decisions" is radicalism of the worst kind. This would devastate the employment levels of government planners and their private sector consultants. The point of government planning and policy, and too often private sector, p & p is to correct mistakes with more mistakes so people can retire from this work.
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Yer right. I'm so ashamed. I don't know what came over me. I'll go say 3 Hail Hillaries and 2 Our Bernies and make a donation to the WWF.
Often times I am going to fill it with warm water and let it soak for 10-15 minutes or more, and then go back to the jar and empty it. When it comes to purposes of recycling glass you do not need to wash it perfectly clean. A small amount of fat doesn't do much harm to liquid glass (probably it will just burn and stay gone at some point).
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