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AIBU?

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Neighbour not using the bottle bank

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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 )

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

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RJnomore1 · 29/12/2018 12:03

Jesus Christ is hardly like he's massacring kittens.

He obviously doesn't want to go. If it bothers you that much go knock his door and offer to do it for him.

Purplecatshopaholic · 29/12/2018 12:06

Its posts like this that make me love Mumsnet - its NOT YOUR BUSINESS! Yes he clearly is a lazy CF (given how close the bottle bank
is), but complaining on here rather than, err, perhaps speaking to him, is not going to change anything... And stop with the curtain twitching - seriously...

Beeziekn33ze · 29/12/2018 12:15

Next time he's doing it, shoot out of your door, casually waving empty champagne/prosecco bottle, and smilingly comment on what a drag it is to save the planet. Offer to show him the bottle bank!

Touchmybum · 29/12/2018 12:16

Might I suggest, a hobby?

dorisdog · 29/12/2018 12:18

We wouldn't ever have room in our wheelie bin for recycling! The wheelie bin is emptied every three weeks and the recycling - glass, compost, paper, plastic, metal - every week. I assumed that happened everywhere. How does he even have space?

PoisonousSmurf · 29/12/2018 12:18

Your council is bonkers. Why no doorstep glass recycling?

abacucat · 29/12/2018 12:21

Our council does no doorstep glass recycling either. I put glass bottles in my ordinary bin. I don't lose sleep over it.

Rubusfruticosus · 29/12/2018 12:26

so I've put recycling in the black bin as the local tip is closed until after the new year. Why not just keep it until then? It's not that long!

LaurieMarlow · 29/12/2018 12:27

and smilingly comment on what a drag it is to save the planet

Putting your bottles in the bottle bank is doing virtually nothing to save the planet.

Don't get me wrong, I still do it and generally think others should, but I don't kid myself that any actions of mine (beyond not having more children) will make any difference whatsoever.

Fatted · 29/12/2018 12:27

I love all the people on here saying OP should get a life etc.

Do you all know how much your local council is paying to put all this shit into landfill?! In our local area it's £150 per tonne. Think about how many tonnes a bin wagon takes and they probably fill it 2/3 times a day on one round alone. Then wonder where all your council tax is going.

Touchmybum · 29/12/2018 12:29

With that many bottles, maybe he was too hungover.

You should introduce yourself - he might invite you to his next party!!!

Julianaa · 29/12/2018 12:30

YANBU, OP, this would irritate me too. I hate that my work doesn't recycle anything.

Jaxhog · 29/12/2018 12:35

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?

Nice idea, but seriously? How many of us know a glass artist!!! We don't have even one in our town.

MaxTeyon · 29/12/2018 12:39

Keep your nose out OP

winsinbin · 29/12/2018 12:39

This would piss me off too. We have ample provision for doorstep recycling here and our neighbours never, ever get it right. There will be a broken pushchair sticking out of the paper recycling wheelybin or yoghurt cartons overflowing from the food waste bin. Half the time the bin men don’t take their bins but leave a notice tied to it saying that the wrong items are in the wrong bins. I assume they must then take them down to the tip as it all disappears somewhere.

Myheartbelongsto · 29/12/2018 12:40

I think the new year could be an opportunity to get a life.

Bowerbird5 · 29/12/2018 12:41

Why don't you just ask him?

We collect ours in a big IKEA bin and take them to the nearest recycling area once a month. We used to have one in our village but it got too full and people left them beside it so they caused a problem by getting broken so they had it taken away.Logically another bin might have been a solution. Next village have a designated area at village hall which is fenced off on three sides, lots of bins and seemingly they don't drink as much wine as ours.We take them there because the Primary school gets a share with village. It is nearer than the tip before anyone shouts up. Not everyone has doorstep recycling Smurf. We do get paper though.

viques · 29/12/2018 12:52

I feel your rage. At the corner of my street there is a churchyard and the local drunks congregate by the hedge for a drink/wee on the way home (and yes I do shout at them if I see them weeing -love to see them jump and miss) and around the corner, within sight and stagger? you've guessed it, a bottle bank. Wankers. I have spoken to the local police, nothing they can do unless they catch them in the act. I would like to see the area designated a no alcohol zone, but doubt if that could be enforced either. So I will carry on trying to make sure as many of them as possible walk home in wet trousers and shoes............

brizzledrizzle · 29/12/2018 13:02

Why not just keep it until then? It's not that long!

It's a week away and I'm not keeping two bin bags of recycling in my kitchen all week - the room is too small for that. The only alternative is putting it outside in the bags and I can't do that.

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GhostHoward · 29/12/2018 13:13

But guys...if I get a life or a hobby I'll have to get off my high horse....or maybe take up horse riding, I guess.

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Bowerbird5 · 29/12/2018 14:26

Horse riding is great. Good idea. Then you can spot more

Why not just keep it until then? It's not that long!

Not everyone lives in a detached house with a garden. Please don't assume.
I would but I have a shed. I have two recycling bins in there for everything the council don't pick up or I miss box day. My DH has been known to lazily slip something in bin. DD is the best at recycling so I don't have to mention it now he takes more heed of her too. If you are living in a tiny flat or bedsit I can see how it would be a nuisance. I would probably take them for a walk to some recycling point if I lived in a city.

chillpizza · 29/12/2018 15:03

Most of our recycling is actually used properly so I can’t get worked up about it. Most lorry loads also end up contaminated so go to landfill as well anyway.

Rubusfruticosus · 29/12/2018 15:26

Not everyone lives in a detached house with a garden. Please don't assume. I wasn't assuming that, I don't myself.

HollaHolla · 29/12/2018 15:33

You could be like me - the crazy lady, muttering into recycling bins in the dark.... we have communal recycling of plastic, cans & paper (no glass pickup). Yesterday I found plastic bags, a canvas shopper, polystyrene packing, and bits of pizza, all in the paper bin. Hopefully my shouting of ‘f**king lazy morons’, as I thumped and crashed about will have shamed them somewhat. (But likely not, I expect...)

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