Bins

[Punta]

I know this is trivial but...

the town in which I live has a 3 week cycle of bin collections:
blue = paper / cardboard
black = general household waste / non recyclable
brown = cans / glass/ recyclable plastic

Please tell me if IABU or my husband. Our blue bin was emptied on Wednesday and at the same time, we unpackaged a wooden planter that needed putting together thus the cardboard packaging needed discarding. We have just come back from a few days away and I notice the blue bin was full (lid slightly open). I asked if he knew why the blue bin was full already and he said he’d put the box from the wooden planter in there. My view is that large packaging like that should go to the tip as it takes up too much room.

He did this a few weeks ago with the black bin when we got a dishwasher delivered and he put the polystyrene packaging in there as well...didn’t think to break it up into pieces either. Then spent 2 weeks unable to put any household rubbish in the black bin.

There...I know it’s trivial, but it’s doing my nut in!

He's an idiot and being lazy!

Oooh that would irritate me! We do what you think is reasonable. Odd items go to the tip, or get broken down into small pieces and go in the bin after the usual household rubbish.

Your DH is odd, illogical and daft as a brush!

YANBU. Just take it to the tip.

Yanbu, Im a bin dictator and proud.

Tell him that he is solely responsible for finding somewhere suitable for the paper/cardboard recycling for the next 3 weeks. And that means somewhere out of the way.

What we'd do here (we share 2 blue/recycling wheelie bins with our downstairs neighbours and they're always filled quicker than our green/general waste bins; picked up alternate fortnights) is that we would hold back on putting in "big" cardboard packaging and if there is room when bin collection day comes round, then we'd put it in then. Otherwise it has to go direct to the coup.

Break the box down and put it in the recycling bin, I'm not queuing for 45 minutes at the tip for one box!

Either it fits flat down the inside of the bin or it is 'saved' until bin day and put in of space.

Luckily with our recycling bins we are actually allowed to put anything extra (recyclable) alongside the bin and it will still be taken.

Thought so...we have just moved back to my old home town and the bin collection are different to where we lived before, plus with the house move we are probably generating more waste than usual. I do t mind taking things to the tip either.

I just spoke to him again about it and he did say he was trying to get it out of the way and tidy. He just doesn’t get the big picture sometimes. He is highly intelligent and very ‘techy and scientifically thinking, but common sense around the house isn’t always there!

If he breaks it down even a bit more and puts it in the blue bin, the bin would still be full well before the next collection in two and a half weeks. It’s not a 45 min wait at out recycling centre either, thankfully!