2024-03-11
Food Containers: Do I Need to Wash them?
Have you ever tried to remove all of the peanut butter from the jar before putting it in the recycling cart? If you have, you know it is not an easy task. If, like most of us, you scrap it out a little and think, “Good enough,” you’re not that far off. When it comes to recycling used food containers, Material Recovery Facilities (MRFs) like Eureka prefer them to be relatively clean, but getting out the scrub brush or running them through the dishwasher is going too far…