Recycling

tamarab30 · #1 (**permalink**) 09-01-2008, 11:38 AM

Hoping someone can help me with this.
My son is on gastrostomy feeding (feeding thru a button in his stomach) and has a special pre-made formula.
He goes thru 100 bottles a fortnight (they are 200ml).
As far as I am aware, to be able to recycle glass, it must be rinsed out before putting in recycle bin.
As you can imagine that would be a lot of wasted water.
What do you recommend I do? Wash them out or not? If not, can I still put in recycle bin?

TIA

Jawill · #2 (**permalink**) 09-01-2008, 12:11 PM

Maybe rinse the bottles out in a bucket of water and then recycle the water into your garden?

Jakaluma · #3 (**permalink**) 09-01-2008, 12:13 PM

We did a tour of a recycling plant in Melbourne a year or two ago. They said that rinsing was nice, but not really necessary - just makes it more pleasant smell wise for the workers if not sour milk and things.

Meridith · #4 (**permalink**) 09-01-2008, 12:33 PM

If you rinse immediately then there really should be very little water used.

We're expressly told to NOT rinse recycling where we live, due to the drought.

Craig&Kel · #5 (**permalink**) 09-01-2008, 02:34 PM

As Jakaluma said, the rinsing is just for the benefit of the workers. All the glass gets crushed and sterilized before recycling.