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What time is ok to chuck your glass bottles in the recycling on a weekend?

88 replies

HumphreyTheBandit · 06/06/2021 01:34

Let’s pretend you have half a dozen or so glass bottles. You are the kind of person who chucks them in the bin with force, one by one, so they clink together really loudly.

It’s Saturday/Sunday morning. You live in a terraced house.

What time is it acceptable to start the chucking?

OP posts:
PurBal · 06/06/2021 07:33

@traumatisednoodle

I think anytime between 9-7 is fair game, maybe 10-6 on a sunday.
This. I'm currently having a lie in and its 7.30. I'm courteous enough to wait until 9.
FTEngineerM · 06/06/2021 07:34

Some of you guys are totally wrapped up in your own little bubble.

We went to the beach last weekend, there by 9am. It was packed full of families already. All those people up and about before 9am on weekend too, jeez, they wanna relax 😂

kowari · 06/06/2021 07:36

8am. Morning is the time for work, afternoon for relaxing in our house. Neighbours don't respect me with screaming children on a trampoline placed right next to my fence and backdoor when I want to sit and read either in the sun or inside with the doors open.

kowari · 06/06/2021 07:39

You cannot possibly expect people to timetable their lives according to the hours you like to keep.

Considerate neighbours put out recycling as quickly and as quietly as possible, but otherwise it's all fair game.
I agree

BeenAsFarAsMercyAndGrand · 06/06/2021 07:39

This. I'm currently having a lie in and its 7.30. I'm courteous enough to wait until 9.

You're not waiting until 9 though are you? If you're having a lie in, you're in bed. So you're the person expecting others to delay going about their business, not the other way around.

I am usually up and about doing things on a weekend. I'm about to start my car and drive down the street - no doubt some people will be disturbed by that, but I'm not going to change my weekend plans based on someone else's sleep patterns.

I bet the complainers think nothing of getting a taxi home late at night. (On the basis that they want a lie in it seems likely they do this at least occasionally.) On a residential street that would wake up your neighbours too.

CrimsonImp · 06/06/2021 07:42

On a bank holiday our glass collection gets moved to a Saturday and they come round at 6am. So if they can empty the bins at that time it should be fine to fill them then as well.

TillyTopper · 06/06/2021 07:42

Personally I just put them in the bin (not chuck) and do it's after 11ish at weekends out of consideration for others. But if someone does it from 7am onwards at weekends it doesn't bother me.

Itstheprinciple · 06/06/2021 07:42

We have a pub at the back of us. The one and only time we are aware of this is when they tip bins full of bottles into their outdoor wheelie bin on Friday and Saturday morning. I figure once they've done theirs, my empty pinot grigio bottle is neither here nor there.

bishbashbosh99 · 06/06/2021 07:45

I won't let my kids outside til after 10 on a weekend so it's probably the same rule for glass bottles, tho I do have to tell my husband that as he tries to do earlier sometimes, he just doesn't get it.

MrsHuntGeneNotJeremyObviously · 06/06/2021 07:47

I don't see why anyone has to be noisy putting out their bottles. It is possible to put them in the box and not chuck them!
I'm pissed off with all the neighbors who think cutting their hedges early in the morning is okay - why has no one invented quiet power tools?

motogogo · 06/06/2021 07:51

Never, just put them in one by one!

kowari · 06/06/2021 07:54

@bishbashbosh99

I won't let my kids outside til after 10 on a weekend so it's probably the same rule for glass bottles, tho I do have to tell my husband that as he tries to do earlier sometimes, he just doesn't get it.
I'd love it if the neighbour children were out at 8am as long as they were quiet from 12 to 3 so I could sit and relax in my own garden.
orangejuicer · 06/06/2021 07:54

Agree that 9am is fine.

For those saying be considerate in the morning, it doesn't seem to apply in the evening when I'm trying to get my DS to sleep.

Cardboardeaux · 06/06/2021 07:56

We used to live in a city centre flat in manchester. One of the bars right opposite us decided the most appropriate time to loudly put all that night's glass into the bins was...2am Angry

We never had any other noise issues from being in such a central location near a load of bars etc, it was actually a remarkably quiet spot, save for this one bar (all the others seemed to be able to take their hins out quietly or at a more considerate time of day!).

I went back recently and the bar in question has since shut and been replaced with something else, whilst the others are all still there and thriving. Maybe karma is real 😂😁

PurBal · 06/06/2021 07:59

@BeenAsFarAsMercyAndGrand

This. I'm currently having a lie in and its 7.30. I'm courteous enough to wait until 9.

You're not waiting until 9 though are you? If you're having a lie in, you're in bed. So you're the person expecting others to delay going about their business, not the other way around.

I am usually up and about doing things on a weekend. I'm about to start my car and drive down the street - no doubt some people will be disturbed by that, but I'm not going to change my weekend plans based on someone else's sleep patterns.

I bet the complainers think nothing of getting a taxi home late at night. (On the basis that they want a lie in it seems likely they do this at least occasionally.) On a residential street that would wake up your neighbours too.

I guess my point was that a lie in means different things to different people, I'm never in bed past 8am unless I'm ill. My SIL sleeps until midday on weekends whereas that would be waste of half a day to me. Yesterday we did a couple of hours gardening and were done by 930am. But we didn't do the noisier job (removing a fence) until last. So no, I wouldn't change my plans for the day due to neighbours, but given we weren't going out first things we could wait to do the noisier things. We go to bed at 10pm, I don't think that's particularly late. My old job included nights and shifts though, so maybe I have a warped view of stuff.
stuckinarutatwork · 06/06/2021 08:06

8am would be ok. 9am would be better.

CrimsonImp · 06/06/2021 08:12

We have wheelie bins for glass, not a box so if it's nearly empty it's not really possible to just put them in

ClaudiaWankleman · 06/06/2021 08:12

Any time. It’s a maximum of a minute of noise, and very bog standard normal household noise at that.

It’s bizarre that some posters think they have the right to plan other people’s weekends for them.

ClaudiaWankleman · 06/06/2021 08:15

One of the bars right opposite us decided the most appropriate time to loudly put all that night's glass into the bins was...2am

Probably because that was when they shut and they had to get rid of it before everyone clocked off (and in time for collection). What did you think they should do - pay a member of staff to turn up in the middle of the day to do it?

icelollycraving · 06/06/2021 08:15

I would put them in anytime before 11 at night. Not loudly though. Our recycling bin is mixed so the cardboard cushions glass.
I leave for work at 7/8 at weekends, and do it as I go. If I had just glass to go in an empty bin, I’d probably do it later.

ShakespearesSisters · 06/06/2021 08:23

My neighbours, both WFH, like to do it about 6.30am every day of the week :-(
Must be at least 3 or 4 bottles at a time from the noise, hitting a mountain thats already in there. I have contemplated asking them to do it later in the day but haven't had the nerve yet.

scaredsadandstuck · 06/06/2021 08:24

Ha I was going to make a similar post. Our NDN likes to do his (bizarrely extensive amount of) recycling at about 5am - any day of the week. His (many, many) bins are lined up against the wall of our house just around the corner from our bedroom window. He likes to individually crush every single one of his many, many cans with his foot before loudly dropping them into the bin and slamming the lid. Angry

A few weeks ago my DH opened the window and asked him very nicely to stop. He did for a while but he was back out there this morning about 6:30.

OrchidLass · 06/06/2021 08:31

Yeah, plenty of reasons. It’s my weekend, I get up, tidy my house and get on with my day. 9am is absolutely fine. That’s the functioning day and no one needs to be restricted by someone else’s hangover two doors down.

WTF entitlement is on this thread.

@PersonaNonGarter not everyone wakes up at the weekend with a hangover. It's possible to tidy your house without disturbing your neighbours, it's not that hard. My next door neighbour works odd shifts so If I have any bottles to put in the recycling I do it when his car isn't there because then I know he's at work and not sleeping. I do this because it's the considerate thing to do, it's not exactly a hardship for me. And I'm not a dick. 🤷

sandgrown · 06/06/2021 08:32

My alcoholic ex used to chuck (hide) his bottles in the bin very loudly at whatever time he stopped drinking. It was usually about 3am !

OrchidLass · 06/06/2021 08:34

Probably because that was when they shut and they had to get rid of it before everyone clocked off (and in time for collection). What did you think they should do - pay a member of staff to turn up in the middle of the day to do it?

@ClaudiaWankleman I ran a pub for years and would never have done this at 2am, that's really not acceptable. We did it during the lunchtime shift.

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