do you judge other people's recycling boxes...?

[BarrelOfOtters]

Walking to work this morning, it's recycling day, one box was full, I mean full, of Smirnoff red bottles. Another of McEwans extra. Another had a lot of soft drink bottles and coke cans.

You can't help but wonder...

Get a life?

No but I was mortified when our recycling wheelie tipped last week in high winds and my husbands beer cans were rolling all over the street 😂

Of course! What else are they there for?????

Someone had a party 🤣

Ours our bins so no but when they were boxes I noticed but didn't really think anything of it 🤷‍♀️

I was always astounded by how much Dr Pepper the couple in the upstairs flat where we used to live drank, mainly because I think the stuff is vile.

If someone's had that much vodka, I'd assume they either had a party or they are having a very rough time. I wouldn't particularly judge. Although I might wonder how they financed it!

Well if it's a recycling box rather than a bin there can't be that much in it 😁

Absolutely, I walked past a recycling box full to the brim with wine bottles the other day and definitely judged!

What were you judging though? They may have had 10 friends over at the weekend

Maybe, but it's more fun to imagine the alternative 😁

No I wouldn't judge, we don't have a glass recycling bin, but have a crate/box at side of house that we fill up then take to glass bank. Also don't judge people on their take away boxes or if their recycling is basic/high end brands.

Do judge people who don't rinse the stuff that needs rinsing out though

Stop looking. No need to wonder.

Absolutely not! It's not my business what people put in their boxes and bins. My recycling goes into a blue-lidded wheelie bin so I, and and my neighbours, would have to make a point of lifting the lid to see contents of our bins and nobody is going to do that.

Not what’s in the boxes, but my neighbour doesn’t recycle and I judge them massively for it? They always put their wheely bin out the night before and it’s overflowing with rubbish that blows down the street. But they never recycle which would obviously solve the issue? So i judge them

Of course! People drink way too much alcohol, they aren't having parties every week.
I also judge people who put the wrong items in their green bin. Plastic bags and dirty wrappers aren't recyclable and they've been sent endless leaflets about it.

Exactly this. If they did not have a party then they are a person who is struggling badly and so I would most definitely not judge. (As a person myself who has struggled with addiction issues thanks to trying to self medicate away from abuse and trauma).

Nah, I only judge my neighbour who puts her dog shit in the recycling bin (on the rare occasion she actually picks it up from her garden). But the bin men are onto her and look in her bin before slapping the red sticker of doom on it again.

Our glass recycycling is only picked up quarterly, but anyone who didn't know this, and assumed bi-weekly or so, would think we had a significant drink problem. And that there were far more than two of us.

Here in Ireland we have to trudge to the supermarket with all our cans and plastic bottles to get our deposit back. I went over today with a bag and got a whole €3.25 for them. I feel judged parading my bottles for the whole town to see so I can get back my measly deposit. It was far better when I could chuck them in the recycling bin and my pepsi max habit was between me and the binmen.

We only have water bottles to return and I don't feel judged so much as guilty for buying so much bottled water. Not that we can drink the brown crap that comes out of the tap though!

No - I judge the absence of recycling boxes, badly sorted recycling with rubbish in it or recycling in the rubbish bin. The contents, none of my beeswax.

The alternative being someone struggling with severe alcoholism? Yeah, super fun! 😁

Yes, I judge the papers people read!

I do judge those who have loads of plastic drink bottles - so wasteful and unnecessary. Especially plastic water bottles - I find that so odd.

I love to notice those regularly drink a lot of alcohol too. Just find it interesting.

Surely it normal to observe these things and for those observations to register in your brain. Binfuls of vodka bottles = they drink lots of vodka in that house