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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    If I can't get the label or its sticky glue off a jar so I can re-use it for my own purposes @pansyface it goes in the bottles box and, I assume, the glue and paper get incinerated when the glass is recycled.

    @B3 - we have our windows open too but with the shutters down on ventilation mode.   Possum gets bovver but not us and if we get bitten we just take an anti histamine and slap on some anti-itch cream. 
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    I swill tins and bottles out, nothing more than that.  Then straight into the recycling box.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    @Obelixx. Stopped itching now. Aloe Vera works for me but it really psssss me off that I can't have the windows open at night in this heat.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    B3 said:
    @Obelixx. Stopped itching now. Aloe Vera works for me but it really psssss me off that I can't have the windows open at night in this heat.
    I've just shut all the windows. It's freezing outside.
    Devon.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Lucky you
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    I'm a fastidious recycler too. Paper removed from cans and bottles to be recycled or composted, plastics cleaned in our old hand washing water then crushed, plastic labels removed so they don't confuse the scanners. It was much easier before we had kids and we didn't actually produce much waste in the first place. I often question the point given how other people treat their recycling but Wales is doing really well now and loads of the recycling is done locally too. The only thing stopping us being the best recycling country in the world now is people not recycling as well as they could.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    It would be interesting to know: are the Welsh people better recyclers, if so why, or does Wales have better recycling capabilities?
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Don’t worry about paper labels on glass jars and bottles,  it goes into a huge container filled with water, they soak off and rise to the top then it’s skimmed off.

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505

    Why?
    I just don't get it😲
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    Nightmare  :o Where was that B3?
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
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