Marmite and re-cycling

Dear Editor, Week two of the new recycle system and I admit that it went smoothly at my address. Most of the backlog of paper, cans etc. fitted in to the green bin. It is fair to say that I remain sad for Grundon?s, whose superb service has disappeared, apparently unsung.

There remain problems which maybe only the initiates of the new green theology can answer. Take Marmite. As someone once said to me: ?There always a bit more you can get out of a Marmite jar.? A Marmite container is very difficult indeed to clean. Soak it in tap water and washing up liquid and that takes a small environmental toll. You may even have to use more washing up liquid and more water to clean the now Marmited sink.

Throw the jar unwashed into the recycling and someone, somwhere, will have to deal with the eventually pulverised Marmited mess. Put the jar in the food recycling and the content is fine but not the glass or plastic. Oh dear. And then there are tomato sauce containers. Such are the problems of the dutiful citizenry.

Norman Brand
Fanshawe Road
Thame

Ed. The answer I find is to soak the marmite jar in hot, soapy water and then use a washing up brush to get the residual marmite out from under the lip of the jar. Works a treat!