Can you clean and reuse substrate?

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I use repti-bark as my substrate in my leopard tortoise enclosure and I was just curious if there is anyway you can “wash” the substrate and possibly reuse/recycle it? If so, what is the proper method?
 

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Just my opinion. If I were going to do that I would run it under very hot water, then soak it in very hot water for a time, half hour or so then let it cool a bit, but not dry out and then put it back in.
If you spot clean daily, the substrate should last a long time before needing replacement or cleaning.
 
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