If you’re like me than you care about reusing and recycling products. I feel like I recycle everything! But sometimes its a little more difficult than I’d like it to be. Like those PB jars! We used to use only glass jars which were beautiful, old-fashioned, easy to clean and just the right size for reusing. But we had to make the switch to plastic – but the new plastic PB jars can be cleaned, reused or recycled also. Our all-natural PB can be very sticky and pesky to remove (even though I scrape as much PB out with my knife as I possibly can
), so here’s my tip…
After you’ve gotten out as much yummy PB as you can, fill your jar completely with some warm, barely soapy water and let it sit for a few days. I put mine on my windowsill above my kitchen sink but you could hide your water-filled PB jar in a cupboard or behind a kitchen appliance. Every other day I give it a shake and flip the jar over on its lid (and then back over again then next day) to make sure the water dissolves every PB particle. Then when recycling day rolls around – I pour out the water and voila! A nicely clean recyclable plastic jar I can be proud of! Or I could just keep the clean jar to use around my house, such as on my husband’s messy tool bench.
