Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Sun, 14 Sep 2008 08:04:35 +0100, Rod wrote:

Which is much more likely nowadays. Instead of touching the cad and lid
just once (to pour out the contents and drop the empty in the bin),

Yuk, not even rinsed so it goes all manky in the bin?

If it's collected frequently enough, is the food left on a can any worse
than the other stuff that ends up in the bin? I used to make a token
effort - but with fortnightly collections and being not supposed to wrap
things in the can bin, more thorough effort is required.

we are expected to rinse off both lid and can and bin them separately.

What? Can't you put the (metal) lid in with the (same metal) tin for
recycling? A 2l ice cream tub takes our tins and tin lids, tins a rinsed
and flattened before be placed in there.

Hands up! I should obviously have phrased that to be "separately to
other (non-can) rubbish)". I have never made any effort to squash cans
because the collecting box we have is ample for the containers we
collect without doing so. (And will still last four weeks, i.e. allowing
a forgotten-to-put-the-damn-thing-out week.)

I certainly have cut myself on cans due to this method of opening.
Accident prone? Maybe. Trying where sensible to avoid wickedly nasty
sharp edges? Yes, definitely.

So have I both from the fold out type of opener and our lift off one. I'm
intrigued by this "cut through the rim" type. We sort of need a new tin
opener as I said earlier it is ancient (20 years or more old) and the
surface of the plastic handles is starting to fail.

I have never had any significant problem with the camping type opener
(as described earlier). And no problem at all with the 'cut through the
rim' styles. Some are much better on the small cans (tomato paste,
pilchards) than other types of opener.

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