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

[HumphreyTheBandit]

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?

My neighbour just did his at 8.30

@OrchidLass

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.

The poster was talking about a city centre bar. Those aren't normally on residential streets where they need to worry about noise.

A pub in a residential area would be different, but I wouldn't expect city centre bars to be going out of their way to keep noise down at night.

I used to throw them from the back door into the glass bin until my neighbor asked me really politely not to as it was very noisy
I hadn’t even thought about it being disruptive to other people as the whole thing probably took 20 seconds but still, it actually is fucking noisy so now if we have glass bottles I take them and put them in carefully.
I would do that at any time because it’s now very quiet. In fact I’ve already put some in this morning.
If you’re throwing then... I don’t know, after 9 maybe?

My neighbour does his anytime between midnight and 2am. It's particularly nice when the weather is warm and I'm sleeping with my bedroom window open

I still can't work out how it's making so much noise?

Do you live next to a recycling centre?

I guess every council do things differently but here we have green boxes and they sit in the gated bin area (most houses have some kind of cubby or dedicated bin area) and are added to as and when.

We actually keep our recycling on the terrace (council provided recycling bag) and pop it out the night before collection, I pop my wine bottles back in the box they came in so no clinking.

I think officially the anti social noise hours are 11pm - 7am, so while its annoying at 7.30am its 'allowed'.

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.

Lots of places don’t have a lunchtime shift though. The bar I once worked at didn’t - it opened at 4pm.

Our next door neighbour tips what sounds like several glass bottles into their bin most nights at around 10-11pm

@OrchidLass : And I'm not a dick. 🤷

Are you really suggesting that people who empty their recycling between 9-10am on Saturday mornings are ‘dicks’? WTF are you on? And how old are you?

Seriously, there is a mad self-absorption on this thread. If you live in a town you live with other people going about their business. It’s anti-social to make a noise between 9pm and 7.30am, after that accept other people are living their lives.

11 am is about right imo.

@ClaudiaWankleman

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?

But all the other bars had the same opening times and didn't do this (presumably bins went out at 11am when staff wete starting work before opening). And why would a member of staff have to "turn up in the middle of the day" to do it when they're already at work anyway? 😂

Yes, this was a bar in a mixed use development with a LOT of flats/hotels etc nearby. All the other bars took their bins out quietly and/or at less antisocial times - just this one place didn't

No idea about bottles but we had someone mowing their lawn just before 7am on bank holiday Monday and then someone's kids playing loudly outside shortly before 8am this morning. Who even does that.

On the basis that noise nuisance laws state that building works on a Saturday can start at 8 am (but must finish by 1pm), I would say from 8 am

Ooh lots of comments!

My neighbour was chucking his recycling out at 08:50 yesterday.

It woke me up and I was so annoyed as I hadn’t had a decent night’s sleep for over two weeks!

And I agree with a PP, that there are different ways of putting your recycling out. DH and I place each item in the bin so it never clinks or smashes. Our neighbour does not follow this approach. 🤔

I am glad I’m a heavy enough sleeper that this wouldn’t bother me

I wake up at 6-7am regardless of being a Sunday as I work full time and I’m in a routine. Or otherwise I’m tired enough to sleep through some twat clanging bottles outside. So overall this doesn’t impact me.

But if your neighbour is trying to be as loud as possible then it’s absolutely anti social behaviour/noise nuisance

I'm currently on chemotherapy and I get wiped out and need to sleep for a few hours from late morning til 2 Ish. Equally there will be people on shifts. I expect people to go about their day as you can't accommodate everyone- but early mornings you surely try to keep the noise down because there's an expectation most people will be in bed. And if you have to do it then you do it as quietly and considerately as possible.

I seem to invariably pick the time to sleep when the bastard ice cream van wants to repeatedly play match of the day on his tin can audio system of woe throughout the borough however.

@PersonaNonGarter Goodness, why on earth are you so angry? 😂 You do what you think is right. I'll carry on being considerate to my neighbour. Relax.

Ahh the precious mumsnet nutjobs!
Do you honestly believe your desire for a lie-in can really dictate others day2day plans?!Unless you are living rural or detatched get over yourselves. I couldnt give a crap who had a late night/who expects a lie-in&who thinks bottles should b gently placed in the bin at11am.
If you live in a street where you have close neighbours,noise goes with the territory-buy some earplugs&dont expect people to give a toss..

I'd say 9am till 9pm, we do put stuff out later or earlier but do it quietly by placing things carefully. DH used to put the wheely bin out after 10 till I pointed out the neighbours lights were all out by then but to him that's only mid evening. We do lie in a bit at the weekend but always awake by about 7.30 even if we don't get up for ages.

I've started buying wine boxes to avoid the clank of shame 🤣

After 9 Am

@eekbumbler

I've started buying wine boxes to avoid the clank of shame 🤣

This made me smile!