we recycle everything, im quite luck to have a great recycling bin at wher we live which takes all plastic, even my mum pops all her bits she cant recycle up to us. The animals get some of our peelings and glass we take to the bottle bank. I noramlly rince things out well or they end up being washed up with the dinner bits, i have a friend who just dumps it in dirty and i have to admit it dose bug me as it can become smelly and i hate getting bean juice on my hands