Gloves For Dirty Jobs.

I wanted to share with you this idea I got around 20-30 years ago. My mother died and my father and I had to find ways of sharing household chores. And it was job to pick up the paper in our basement after our dogs used them. That is really a filthy job, but you know when you carefully layer them overlapping starting in one corner you can pick them up with one roll. Sometimes in my house we did it with bare hands, but I always preferred gloves. But you know that is still disgusting, using the same rubber work gloves from the job you did previously the day before. So I got this idea of washing them with soap and water in the basement sink.

I don't know if that was necessary (I have no dogs now BTW). I read somewhere germs usually die in a couple of hours, unless they have a medium to grow in. Also I don't know how that would work for medical gloves. I use nitrile gloves now for medical use. They get contaiminated with bathroom germs for the reason I use them and I always throw them out. I have a large stack of boxes of them now, and I used subscribe and save recently to get a continuous supply from Amazon. But I don't know if those will be enough with the amount I use. Could washing them with soap and water in the sink in the bathroom make them reusable? And then maybe I could only use them a couple more times. (Because I always wash after number two.)

I'm just curious about ideas for that. Germs and how safe it ever is to reuse things is my question in general too.