Rinse Your Milk Bottles Before Putting In Brown Bin. Pyoo

[Nightbird 0]

My brown bin is about half full of empty plastic milk bottles; due to the hot weather the smell coming from the small amount of milk in the bottom of the bottles is awful.

 

I think I'm going to empty my brown bin and take the bottles to the local recycling place and remember to rinse the bottles in future.

[francypants 441]

Surely if the top is screwed on the empty bottle it doesn't smell.  Mine don't.

[Nightbird 0]

21 minutes ago, francypants said:

Surely if the top is screwed on the empty bottle it doesn't smell.  Mine don't.

I should have mentioned that the tops are not on mine; I'm sure I heard somewhere that the tops are not recyclable like the bottles, so I've always removed them before putting them in the recycling bin.  

[Jen17 10]

46 minutes ago, Nightbird said:

My brown bin is about half full of empty plastic milk bottles; due to the hot weather the smell coming from the small amount of milk in the bottom of the bottles is awful.

 

I think I'm going to empty my brown bin and take the bottles to the local recycling place and remember to rinse the bottles in future.

Yuk ! Don't most people rinse their bottles and cans before putting in the bin ?

[ANGELFIRE1 10]

22 minutes ago, Nightbird said:

I should have mentioned that the tops are not on mine; I'm sure I heard somewhere that the tops are not recyclable like the bottles, so I've always removed them before putting them in the recycling bin.  

And stand on them so you can get more in the bin. Seen my missus doing it.

 

Angel1.

[Bilge 34]

1 hour ago, Nightbird said:

I should have mentioned that the tops are not on mine; I'm sure I heard somewhere that the tops are not recyclable like the bottles, so I've always removed them before putting them in the recycling bin.  

You're supposed to remove the top but put it in the bin too. The tops are recyclable. With the top left on the dregs ferment and inflate the bottle with gas and waste space, that's why I assume the advice is to remove tops. So you take the top off, crush the bottle a bit and chuck both in the bin.

 

I don't bother rinsing anything out before it goes in the brown bin. I expect the inside of a bin to be less than clean. Surely that would be a waste of water and would also help create fatbergs in the drains? Unless you mean you should rinse everything and empty it on the garden.

[jaffa1 10]

I thought everyone rinsed out their bottles and tins other wise it will stink and also attract flies .

[scousemouse 10]

Bottles tins jars I wash them all out and properly not just a rinse, why wouldn't you.?

[Janus 28]

3 hours ago, Nightbird said:

I should have mentioned that the tops are not on mine; I'm sure I heard somewhere that the tops are not recyclable like the bottles, so I've always removed them before putting them in the recycling bin.  

I get the long life  full skimmed that comes in them square type containers-tetra packs or something, and I recycle the plastic tops. In Rovrum we can put all sorts in the green bins including plastics from food packaging . Them trays that chilled fresh chicken comes in, containers with peaches & plums. All go in with the cans, plastic bottles and glass. Not had any come back. 

[RiffRaff 10]

I rinse mine out using hot water, which softens the plastic enough to be able to roll it almost flat. If you then run cold water over it, the flattened shape keeps the new form, therefore taking less room in the bin.

The label asks to "check local recycling" as regards the top.

Have done, with (in my case) the Chesterfield authorities advising that the tops are not able to be recycled, and so are thrown in the ordinary bin.

[Ms Macbeth 75]

7 hours ago, Janus said:

I get the long life  full skimmed that comes in them square type containers-tetra packs or something, and I recycle the plastic tops. In Rovrum we can put all sorts in the green bins including plastics from food packaging . Them trays that chilled fresh chicken comes in, containers with peaches & plums. All go in with the cans, plastic bottles and glass. Not had any come back. 

And all we in Sheffield can put in our brown bin is bottles and cans.  I regularly stay in Cheshire and Doncaster with family.  Both local authorities seem to take everything recyclable.   Sheffield seems to be lagging behind.  Bottles and cans in one bin, paper and card in the other.   No yoghurt pots, no food packaging.

[francypants 441]

13 hours ago, francypants said:

Surely if the top is screwed on the empty bottle it doesn't smell.  Mine don't.

I always squash the bottle flat then screw the top back on.

I'm under Barnsley Council and as far as I know this is permissible.