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Neighbour not using the bottle bank

49 replies

GhostHoward · 29/12/2018 10:50

I live 3/4 houses from a car park which has a bottle bank at it's entrance. I've been tidying the sitting room and ended up curtain twitching, teeth gritted, as I watched my directly opposite neighbour put about 20 bottles into his black bin.

The bottle bank can't be more than 30 steps away (I'll count next time I go Xmas Grin )

AIBU to think he's a lazy fucker, to not be bothered to recycle?

OP posts:
ThatPeskyElf · 29/12/2018 10:52

He’s lazy. Go knock over his bin tonight under the cover of darkness. Let the world see his laziness.

GreatDuckCookery6211 · 29/12/2018 10:52

Does he not have a recycling bin?

SnuggyBuggy · 29/12/2018 10:53

Write to your council and persuade them to start doing the sticker of shame

formerbabe · 29/12/2018 10:54

Yanbu.

But also stop curtain twitching....no need to be a busy body.

Birdsgottafly · 29/12/2018 10:55

I'd I've gone put and offered to take them, on the premis of being concerned about his reduced mobility.

Original poster
GhostHoward · 29/12/2018 11:01

@greatduckcookery Where we live you can't put glass in our recycling bins. (We're not even allowed to put veg peelings in our compost bin...which we have to pay for).

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CallMeSirShotsFired · 29/12/2018 11:06

Don't you happen to have an artist friend who is very interested in using glass as a medium and could he possibly set aside any bottles for you to take to her?

(Yes its convoluted but I'd also get antsy about the wastefulness so prepared to put a small action in to rectify)

tittietinsel · 29/12/2018 11:10

Don't you happen to have an artist friend who is very interested in using glass as a medium and could he possibly set aside any bottles for you to take to her?

You are expecting the OP to take on responsibility for her lazy fucker neighbours recycling Hmm

Original poster
GhostHoward · 29/12/2018 11:10

I was thinking of in the dead of night putting a note on his bin to "let him know" that, in case he was unaware, there is a bottle bank within his eyeshot in the car park.

OP posts:
megletthesecond · 29/12/2018 11:11

Yanbu.
I get dead twitchy about can't be arsed recycling.

Original poster
GhostHoward · 29/12/2018 11:12

I have enough bottles of my own, after Christmas @CallMeSirShotsFired Xmas Blush Grin

OP posts:
CallMeSirShotsFired · 29/12/2018 11:12

yes tittie, but as I ALSO SAID right after that "(Yes its convoluted but I'd also get antsy about the wastefulness so prepared to put a small action in to rectify)"

No need to get pissy with me for it!

tittietinsel · 29/12/2018 11:16

I'm not getting 'pissy'.

The suggestion that OP takes this on is ridiculous, even with the 'convoluted' comment after it.

Just pointing out it's not up to the OP to do her neighbours recycling, which is actually a reasonable comment, not 'pissy'

Donna1001 · 29/12/2018 11:21

YANBU

Go out in the dead of night, take them out of his bin, & leave a trail from there to the bottle bank.

(Obviously will only work if it’s not windy where you are!)

glamorousgrandmother · 29/12/2018 11:23

In my area we have three bins - general waste, recycling and a green bin for garden waste and food waste. The contents of the green bin are taken to a place that composts it quickly (not sure of the technicalities). The idea was that the product could be sold cheaply to gardeners but because idle fuckers put bottles in the green bin the compost has small pieces of glass in it and, therefore, can't be sold, it has to be given away to farmers instead thus wasting Council Tax payers money. I have no patience with people who are too lazy to take advantage of our very good council facilities.

hazell42 · 29/12/2018 11:26

Dear God. What a monster. Call somebody immediately. The council? The police? Isn't there a hotline number for reporting animals like this?
Its Christmas. Perhaps open a bottle of sonething yourself and chill.

Original poster
GhostHoward · 29/12/2018 11:28

@hazell42 But then I'd have to take it all the way to the bottle bank Xmas Grin

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RangeRider · 29/12/2018 11:30

It could be worse, you could be living near me where we have some thoughtless drunken sod who drops his/her empty vodka bottles on the grass verge once a week (no doubt on their way home rat-arsed). Some weeks we get 2, once we've had 3. Take the bloody things home with you piss-head (or let me know where you live so I can bring them round and let you know my views on anti-socialness)

gggrrrargh · 29/12/2018 11:32

I feel your teeth gritting pain. I’ve got communal bins between 12 households. Someone puts Stella bottles in the black bin and there is always peculiar, blatantly wrong things in the recycling one. I try and get over it but it hurts afresh each time!

Grace212 · 29/12/2018 11:34

my council wouldn't collect a bin with a load of bottles in it.

brizzledrizzle · 29/12/2018 11:44

Maybe his recycling bin is full? Our recycling bin wasn't emptied this week, I phoned the council who informed me that our bin wasn't out so they won't come back for it - it was on the drive as always! - so I've put recycling in the black bin as the local tip is closed until after the new year.

poppoppop100 · 29/12/2018 11:47

MYOB

3out · 29/12/2018 11:49

I thought this was going to be about an annoying neighbour loudly using the bottle bank right outside your house at an unearthly hour.
Perhaps he thought he was being considerate?

mcmooberry · 29/12/2018 11:51

YANBU I would find this intolerable too!

Drookit · 29/12/2018 11:54

I agree YANBU.
Lazy arsed fecker.