“I don’t even bother recycling, though my wife has a fetish about it. It’s a pain in the ass, washing out containers and removing plastic bits and labels.”
Just where do you live? We recycle practically everything now and we don’t have to wash out anything! Our “garbage can” goes out every week practically empty. We put food scraps in with the green waste as well. Here in California there is a lot of pressure not to put everything in a landfill, and it’s one of the few good ideas that comes out of our $hitball government.
Everything has to have the inside clean. They it with peanut butter. Toilet bowl cleaners have plastic nozzles that require pliers to remove.