On Sun, 06 Aug 2006 21:45:58 +0100, Pete C wrote:

|On Sun, 06 Aug 2006 17:35:55 +0100, John Rumm
wrote:
|
|Dave Liquorice wrote:
|
| What contaminated food packaging? Tins rinse easy, as do bottles and
| jars, frozen food packs/bags are pretty clean but again rinse if
| required.
|
|At what cost (monetary or environmental) in water, heating, and
|detergent though?
|
|I fill up any leftover space at the top of the DW with fruit punnets,
|margarine tubs etc.
|
|Jars I soak off the label and most of the of the left over contents,
|and put them on top of and between the cups/mugs.
|
|Time is an important consideration too, but considering the time spent
|buying, storing and eating the contents, a bit of extra time spent on
|recycling is nothing really.

I notionally charge all time I spend on anything at the National Minimum
Wage, currently roughly GBP 5 per hour. If somebody, somewhere does not
get GBP 5 for everything I do it is not worth doing.
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