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I may well BU here, but I need to check!

53 replies

Bogeyface · 22/01/2011 16:16

It was bin day yesterday and I cant bring them back in (I just cant ok, dont ask!) and DH got back too late to do it last night as it makes a right racket.

So, the bins are on the front and a couple walked past and shoved some rubbish in. Nothing major, a chip paper with some chips still in it, and a coke can. I dont mind that, better that than they are dropped on the ground. But, and this is where I might BU, I got steaming mad because the chip paper with the food still in it went in the blue recycling bin and the empty coke can went in the black non recycling bin!

I have seen them around before, so I know they live around here so they know the drill with the bins, would it really have killed them to put them in the right bins if they are going to go the effort of using both?! I now have to fish the chip bag out, no pun intended although I will probably leave to coke can where it is! I have been FFSing around the house about it! am I being OTT and U?!

OP posts:
TheMonster · 23/01/2011 12:20

That's the attitude, LadOf, punish the environment Hmm

hairyfairylights · 23/01/2011 12:21

YABU to be worked up about it.

TrillianAstra · 23/01/2011 12:24

WTF is this interrogation on why she can't being the bins in? Pretty easy to imagine she might have hurt her knee or something.

YANBU - I would be annoyed at people putting stuff in my bins full stop so you are being very reasonable to only wish that they put the stuff in the correct bins.

taintedpaint · 23/01/2011 12:25

YABU to get so annoyed by it (and also weirdly confrontational with people....) but the couple were BU by dumping their rubbish in your bins as well.

Neither as bad as LadyOTM though. What a stupid attitude.

babypickles · 23/01/2011 12:30

Yes yabu. But its allowed with spd iwbu about everything.

ziggiz · 23/01/2011 12:31

be thankful it wasn't dog poo like someone did to me.

TimeForACHEEKYWine · 23/01/2011 12:35

bogeyface
with regards to the bins, i know what you mean but mine isnt pain related - i just feel akky touching the bins, i cant take them out, i bring it in but using one finger on the handle and leaving it at the front door for DH to move it round the back. He is away this week and iv asked him to pull the bin to the front of the house so i can try to pull it out on tuesday night ready for bin day wednesday - im dreading it :(

TimeForACHEEKYWine · 23/01/2011 12:36

LOTM

I too dont recycle i dont get paid for it, so why should i do someone elses job.

NinjaCuckoo · 23/01/2011 12:36

Could DH not have done it this morning before he went out? Assuming he's not a night shift worker and still in bed!

It would have irritated me a bit. I would have tutted and then forgotten about it tbh.

NinjaCuckoo · 23/01/2011 12:37

oh, sorry about the bold, that was done in error ...

TimeForACHEEKYWine · 23/01/2011 12:38

I cant even clean grease so im not going to start traipsing through rubbish in my bin, i gag when i empty the bin bag from the inside bin, eurgh thinking of it makes me feel sick. i dread the bin getting full in the house that i have to take the sack out, and then have to take it to the main bin outside.,. Eurgh.

Boak! i just cant do it.

taintedpaint · 23/01/2011 12:51

You don't have to traipse though the rubbish FFS, you separate it before it gets to that point. Some people are just bloody ridiculous/selfish about recycling. It's not that difficult.

babypickles · 23/01/2011 12:58

People get annoyed easily dont they.

Rainbowpenguin · 23/01/2011 13:39

Just wanted to mention to the poster that said the council will bring bins in if you tell them about your disability.

Sorry but they won't, well not in the case of this poster as she has adh that can do it. I am disabled and can't bring the bins in and in my area you are only eligible for help if you live alone, with noone to do it for you.

Having said that we have forgotten to ours before now (main bin) and the bin men have pulled my bin out on those occassions, probably because my house is adapted for a wheelchair from the front so they can see it is a disabled person that lives here.

LadyOfTheManor · 23/01/2011 15:11

I don't care for comments like "punishing the environment"....get Vegas to turn their lights off once in a while, then I shall consider stopping my busy life, and mess about separating rubbish. If they lowered council tax, I'd consider it, but until then they can forget it.

I use energy saving lightbulbs and cloth nappies, so that should council out refusing to sort out trash.

I'd also like to add, that the plastic waste all ends up in landfill in India and Africa, and I personally don't want to contribute to that.

LadyOfTheManor · 23/01/2011 15:11

cancel*

taintedpaint · 23/01/2011 15:24

If you don't care for the comments, don't do the things that warrant them. I'm sorry, but it really is that simple. Nothing cancels anything else out either, we all ought to do our best and being obstinate and childish about it won't help anyone.

Not just directed at you Lady, btw, there are plenty that do it.

Where's your research on the plastic/landfill situation? Sounds interesting.

ISNT · 23/01/2011 15:29

YANBU to be annoyed, that was annoying.

YAB a bit silly not to let it go pretty quickly though.

LadyOfTheManor · 23/01/2011 15:31

Mainly E-waste as my dad is an inventor (the mad scientist type) and has invented a machine to densify plastic waste.

However he did research into where our plastic waste goes...and where our e waste goes.

Both end up in Asia and Africa.

THe plastic waste is worse, in regards to EU law. In Asia they can bury it, causing the chemicals to be released under the ground. Due to the way it's compacted, it can go "boom" at any time.

The E waste is slightly worse, as the kiddies trail through the tips to find wires, burn off the plastic covering (while breathing in the fumes) to get the copper, to sell at the market.

I know there's the argument of "if they don't do that, they go hungry"...but they cough up blood and get terrible diseases from open wounds.

I can get hold of one his papers if you like and provide a link?

BaroqueAroundTheClock · 23/01/2011 15:33

I'm Confused about not wanting to "sort through" the rubbish to do recycling and normal bin stuff.

Do it before it goes into the bin in the house in the first place. I have a main kitchen bin, and a black bag for recycling, even the DS's know to rinse stuff out before they put it in the recycling bag.

taintedpaint · 23/01/2011 15:35

I get the impression you think I was being sarcastic....I wasn't. Thanks for the offer of the paper, if only I had the time!

(hoping DF has the hair to go with the mad scientist look....will be disappointed if not....Wink)

BaroqueAroundTheClock · 23/01/2011 15:35

Yes some councils were brought up for there sending plastics for recycling off to landfil in other countries - but that doesn't happen across the board. There was a programme on TV about it ages ago.

LadyOfTheManor · 23/01/2011 15:36

NO no I knew you were being serious. He doesn't have much hair...let alone "Emmet style" from Back to the Future.

He does wear science goggles those-and these amuse me.

Blondilocks · 23/01/2011 15:37

Have they lived there for long? I moved house a good 18 months ago but our bins are backwards in terms of colour to where I used to live & I still have to think twice about which to put rubbish or recycling in! (Used to be black for rubbish but now the black bin is for recycling!)

Better than having to pick the rubbish out of your front garden.

BaroqueAroundTheClock · 23/01/2011 15:37

well - actually not strictly "councils" - but they sub-contract out and some rogue ones have done it.

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