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Wed 7 Sep, 2011 08:24 am
I always run glass jars through the dishwasher before tossing them into the recycle bin because I don't want to attract bugs. A peanut butter jar, a jelly jar, whatever, always comes perfectly clean. On the other hand, if a piece of silverware or a dish with even the smallest SPECK of dried food goes in the dishwasher, that small piece of food will cling to my silver or dinnerware until either the return of the Messiah or the application of heavy elbow grease and a scrubbie. WTF?
That you should give you pause in consideration of what they put in the peanut butter and the jelly.
@blueveinedthrobber,
You mean, you pay for soap, heated water, and all that electricity just to recycle a jelly jar? You're spending a dollar to save a dime.
@roger,
I'm washing the dishes anyway rog...it's not like I run a special load for it.
@blueveinedthrobber,
I think that glass jars make for great drinking glasses.
@blueveinedthrobber,
I don't waste the energy and space in the dishwasher. In order to prevent bugs from being attracted to my recycling I simply rinse things with hot water. Peanut butter is the most resistant so I add strong dishsoap and use a bottle brush. Everything else I get passably clean which is fine. Back in days of old when I didn't do that, I simply placed a lid on my recycling bin 'til I brought it out to the curb.
@roger,
I believe he's not trying to save any money. He wrote that he was trying to keep bugs away.
@roger,
Will ya stop it already, Roger! It's an American birthright to obscenely waste energy.
@Ragman,
Then, he should follow your lead and put the lids back on.
There's an odd thing about the savings from recycling. Usually, someone does turn a net profit from the deal, but only because thousands of people sort of donate free labor in sorting and cleaning trash.
@roger,
Quote:There's an odd thing about the savings from recycling. Usually, someone does turn a net profit from the deal, but only because thousands of people sort of donate free labor in sorting and cleaning trash.
Earth to Roger. Earth to Roger.
Damn, he never answers.
@Ragman,
does anyone think that when I put the the occasional jelly jar in my dishwasher with the rest of the dishes I'm crazily wasting money and resources in some significant way? Really?
Has anyone considered the post was joke?
@Ragman,
you know that handwashing actually uses more electricity and hot water than the dishwasher right?
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2005/08/dishwasher_vs_h.php
@blueveinedthrobber,
certainly not me..I was stating the opposite.
@blueveinedthrobber,
Not the way I wash dishes.
@blueveinedthrobber,
Yes, and that explains why the rest of the stuff doesn't get clean. It sits around with food drying and petrifying waiting for a full load of jelly glasses.
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