Recycling food packaging

i never ever wash a container as such and never put anything with perhaps more than 0.25% contamination in the recycle
food is eaten never wasted or on the odd occasion left outside for the cats if its on the turn
anything like sauce or condiments containers are swilled and used as flavour
any container with any residue is place on the gas boiler top for any wet matter to dry so zero smell same goes for any vegetable salad and fruit residue
 
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That's for a metered supply and not for heated water. I thought we were talking about the cost of a gallon of hot water which would actually be the cost of the gas required to heat it from cold to the the desired temperature.
I don't care, I was just wondering.
 
It's massively more efficient to use a an electric kettle, in terms of energy losses, than to use a gas ring. Something like 3:1.
If you store HW in a cylinder it'll lose heat, plus you have wastes in the pipe runs. 5m of 15mm holds about 1.8l.
To get 1l from a combi you have to heat the boiler up first

If the lost heat gets used to heat your house, then..... get some back. (same argument as filament lamps.)


1 litre boiled in a kettle at 50p/kWHr costs about 5p if I've got it right.
1000 x 4.2 x (100-15)/(3600 x 1000) x50.
 
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Mrs Bod whinds me up rotten. She has no conscience about recycling. She'll put any old shít in.

I'm for ever fishing and separating the rubbish .

I don't wash. I take the lids off bottles as then they will compact more other fannying around but generally make an effort.

And at work. I separated the cardboard from the wood and the general crap. Plastic will go in one bag metle another. The way I see it is if I make an effort it'll make it easier for those who don't give a shít to make an effort %
 
Stivino said:
That's for a metered supply and not for heated water. I thought we were talking about the cost of a gallon of hot water which would actually be the cost of the gas required to heat it from cold to the the desired temperature.
I don't care, I was just wondering.
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In summer we use around half a metre of gas a day, almost all for HW

Hw usage costs are trivial

But as cans and jars are sloshed in the washing up water, or rinsed in cold, and a few things go in the dwr, there is no additional cost
 
Justin Passing said:
It's massively more efficient to use a an electric kettle, in terms of energy losses, than to use a gas ring. Something like 3:1.
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Except that efficiency losses in energy from the giant kettle in the power station, to the socket in your kitchen, are more than that, and you pay around four times as much for energy from electricity as for gas.
 
JohnD said:
Except that efficiency losses in energy from the giant kettle in the power station, to the socket in your kitchen, are more than that, and you pay around four times as much for energy from electricity as for gas.
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What I wrote stands.

My electricity is all green, so no power station kettle at all.

Yes we all know the unit costs - your "except" is invalid. Repeating the bleedin obvious is just trolling. Again.
 
Ihavenojob said:
Our council takes general waste one week, then recyclables (glass/plastic/cans) another, food waste every week. Food containers are cleaned out and put in the bin, but with rising fuel prices, who will still be cleaning packaging (if you already do) ? Cost of hot water and all that.
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I never have. Why bother, it will be cleaned anyway before they recycle it.
 
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Here they are collected every fortnight, so in the summer it could get a bit whiffy. May be better now it's cooler.
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Mine are stored in a recycling wheelie bin, which has a lid which more or less seals, which fits into a lean to bin store outside - not much smell, but what there is is outside.
 
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