Man, I gotta disagree with you on this one. That 22% number sounds bad but a lot of that stuff gets rejected for reasons that have nothing to do with food residue, like plastic bags tangling up the sorting machines or people tossing in stuff that was never recyclable in the first place. I toured the facility in my city last year and the guy there said rinsed jars actually sell for more to the buyers who turn them into new glass, so the rinse is not wasted effort at all. Plus if your jar is clean you can skip a step later, like when my mom used to save salsa jars for storing screws in the garage. The real fix is learning what your county actually takes, not giving up on the whole thing.

Did the shade trick actually stop the fogging or just slow it down once the sun hit? Curious because Portra 400 is pretty forgiving but Zion in summer is brutal. Give me the real details on how bad that roll would have been without it.