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...

Nope absolutely not interested in other peoples eating/ drinking habits.

We have wheelie bins with lids. I couldn’t judge even if I wanted to.

So, are people judging me as sensible or evil by the regular appearance of condom boxes?

Sensible.

I hate when people post this. This is a discussion board. People are free to muse about all sorts of stuff.

Could not give a flying feck! I'd hate if my recycling bin (with lid) fell over and emptied though. You sound really naive.

We had the "boxes of shame" until the council relented and gave us recycling bins. The key to hiding your shame used to be to put all the booze bottles at the bottom and then cover with a layer of plastics and tins.

I don't get the problem with boxes, I'd rather a box. There's no shame in a couple of wine bottles or half a dozen cider bottles in your recycling box.

Well, thank GOD we have a certain bin (round my way,) where all the recyclables are hidden away under the lid, (bottles, jars, plastics, and cans and tins,) just in case there is someone like YOU lurking in my village @BarrelOfOtters

I don't judge people on their recycling at all, but I do judge fly tippers, people who don't pick up their dogs poo and worse of all the people who do pick up the poo in a little bag but then leave it hooked over a fence post or something. That really gets my goat for some reason.

Yes! Even better my dog likes to stop and sniff them so I get to have a good old nose!

Don't tend to pay any attention to what people are putting out.

Based on this thread I'm sure I get judged every time I put the glass recycling box out though! Don't have much glass recycling apart from alcohol bottles and I can't be bothered to lug it round the front until its actually full. That takes a while but unless someone was making notes I don't see how they'd know I don't put it out for every collection.

Same! I hate lugging it back and forth from the spot where it normally lives, so I only put it out for collection every couple of months. Any judgy conclusions people might draw from it about our fortnightly alcohol consumption would be way off the mark.

I don’t judge, but I do have a little curious glance as I walk by, just the same kind of interest I have in other people’s shopping trolley contents.

I'm far too busy judging people who've put the wrong thing in their recycling bin/put recyclables in the black bin/put books/clothes out in front of their house for other people to take just before a rainstorm.

To be fair ours is full of biscuit boxes and wine bottles. But our rubbish bin is full of veg peelings... But unfortunately people don't see it!

But our rubbish bin is full of veg peelings... But unfortunately people don't see it!

A good thing, too! You don't want them judging you for not composting the peelings!