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Re:Plastic recycling is a problem consumers can't solve by quantum_magpie on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @09:39PM (#17413424)
>[...]do you really need to dishwash everything?

You don't! Unless you have flies and cockroaches infested kitchen, some stray bacteria left after just water-washing will be much less harmful than eating the stuck-on-surface dishsoap (which does not rinse off completely, since it's hydrophobic). I have an even worse opinion of people constantly bleaching their countertops. shudder

As an anecdote, I once had a misfortune of living with a guy who would never rinse off the dishsoap from the dishes at all, just leave them out to dry still covered in suds!

Re:Plastic recycling is a problem consumers can't solve by lemonghost on Thursday June 28, 2018 @01:28AM (#17414298)
Soaps and detergents are not hydrophobic. They are part hydrophilic and part lipophilic which is how they pull lipids into the water when you wash something.