Self catering this week. Domestic staff off to Berlin with her girlfriends and now minding GCs in London. Look out Dave:-)
The consequence is a flock of empty freezer meal plastic containers. Each carefully designed to be non-stackable and determined to tip over in the dishwasher.
So. Wash by hand? Don't be silly.
Idea so far is a variation on the invoice spike we were discussing last month. Perhaps with retaining barbs and a heavy base.
There is a little niggle of doubt in my mind about the concept of recycling where the labour and energy costs far exceed the recovered value.
Finite resource and disposal space excepted, I question the importance of expensively rinsing plastic for expensive collection/sorting and eventual conversion to products displacing renewable wood.
I think combustible waste should be burned, flue gas scrubbed and the energy usefully used.
Indeed, we have a lot of our recycling delivered daily. More effort should be spent on stopping Virgin Media from doing this. Four copies of the same A4 glossies to Flats 1, 2, 3 & 4. There are no flats, and have not been for 25 years.
People grow trees, mash them up, print on them, deliver them to my house where I put them in the recycling. The Smash Martians must be pissing themselves.
Life is full of minor inconveniences. I don't heat water specially to wash food residue, it just goes in the bowl last. Last week my neighbour combined all their family waste in black bin bags. Clearing that lot up when the foxes had finished their inspection took a lot longer than any recycling routine
Eh? Here in Treznal the plastic gets as clean as, say, a spoon will get a yogurt container, and then it gets tossed into the bin "plastic" (ok, "Kunststoffe"). Or the one for "Metall", or the green/brown/clear glass containers. None of that needs to be cleaner than what one would put in the trash anyway. So an oil bottle should be empty but for a few drips, a pickle jar free of most of the mustard seeds and stuff (dill?), but "the label left on" and "drips of pickle water" is fine. "Paper" for recycling is clean paper, greasy pizza packaging is "trash". (My experience may be local, because most of Germany is part of the "Duales System" where you chuck all packaging into a yellow bag and some industrial process tries to extract resources and value from that mess.)
I though you were going to reuse the plastic containers: I get yogurt in little one-kilo lidded buckets that are made of thick white plastic, seal well, and resist heating and freezing. Also good for paint, up to and including solvent paint, up to and including lacquer thinner. But they have this rolled edge that means there in no orientation in which water does not collect in the dishwasher...
If you want to dishwash them, just put a tile on top of them. Sometimes a few suitably placed kitchen implements works too. Small ones can go on their side, held in position by a cup handle.
Yes. Requires ingenuity. My last effort ended with am Elmlea tub, carefully positioned over a plate spacer, filling with water and finding its way through the rack; jamming the bottom disperser.
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