Partner chucks anything in the recycling bin 😣

[Stepstowander64]

My partner Litterally throws anything in the recycling bin, anything plastic, even nappies sometimes. He just treats it like a bonus bin and I feel like I always have to sift through and then when I moan about it I’m always the bad guy who moans about everything 🤯 AIBU!?

Is he like that with anything else?

YABU. Life's too short to worry about stuff like this. I wouldn't necessarily chuck shitty nappies in the recycling bin but honestly couldn't care less if someone else does. It all gets sorted out at the recycling plant anyway, if a batch is contaminated it just goes to landfill anyway so what's the problem.

My DH does this! Not nappies but our recycling bin is just tins, glass and plastic bottles. He very carefully cleans out all plastic containers and puts them in the recycling, it doesnt matter how often I tell him he continues to do it. It's weird, and not at all like him.

I make whoever put the wrong item in there get it out. I’m not sorting someone else’s rubbish, unless I’m destitute and need the work at a recycling centre.

Mine does this. I hate it.

I think it’s awful to be honest and I’m not one of these save the earth types. I’m assuming you mean the wheelie bin? Could you move it further away so it’s a chore to walk to and the black bin (in our council that’s the landfill, anything goes one) will get used instead.

YANBU, if ours isn't sorted correctly it gets left. Usually if people can't be bothered, they chuck everything in the usual bin, not the other way around. Everytime he puts something in the wrong bin, make him move it, especially dirty nappies. He is not "forgetting" or "getting confused" he sees this as your job.

YANBU

What's the point of recycling at all if it all ends up in landfill (which is will if that's what's being put in your recycling bin).

Well I’m glad it’s not just my partner then haha 🙄😅

That would annoy the hell out of me. It’s one (crappy) thing to not do domestic chores, it’s so much worse to make extra work for the other person.

“if a batch is contaminated it just goes to landfill anyway so what's the problem.” Seriously?!

Ours check the bin and will refuse to empty it and sticker it so you and everyone else know why

Mine puts dirty stuff in the recycling such as plastic soup pots and empty milk bottles which haven't been rinsed so they make the house stink of gone off milk which is absolutely vile. But then he'll also chuck anything and everything in the rubbish bin. How hard is it for them to get their heads around!

Chuck the car keys in a different drawer as you can't be arsed putting them in the right place .

Put his socks in your sock drawer, and your tshirts in his pants drawer. Put the salt in the fridge.

And put some food wrappers in his coat pockets

@contrmary

YABU. Life's too short to worry about stuff like this. I wouldn't necessarily chuck shitty nappies in the recycling bin but honestly couldn't care less if someone else does. It all gets sorted out at the recycling plant anyway, if a batch is contaminated it just goes to landfill anyway so what's the problem.

Well it rather defeats the point of recycling doesn’t it!!!!

Maybe a few herbal teas mixed in with the normal teabags....

This is turning into a Mr Men story. "Mr Muddle put the milk in the oven...."

And @contrmary - have some respect for the people having to sort your rubbish because you’re lazy.

Your partner probably doesn't care but...

www.rd.com/article/what-happens-when-wrong-thing-recycling-bin/

Recycling is just the most basic way to slow down the destruction of the planet, people who refuse to recycle are invariably idiots.

It all gets sorted out at the recycling plant anyway, if a batch is contaminated it just goes to landfill anyway so what's the problem.

Wow - what an attitude

@contrmary

YABU. Life's too short to worry about stuff like this. I wouldn't necessarily chuck shitty nappies in the recycling bin but honestly couldn't care less if someone else does. It all gets sorted out at the recycling plant anyway, if a batch is contaminated it just goes to landfill anyway so what's the problem.

You'd probably care if you or anyone you knew worked at a recycling plant. It's not all done by robots, you know.

YABU. Life's too short to worry about stuff like this. I wouldn't necessarily chuck shitty nappies in the recycling bin but honestly couldn't care less if someone else does. It all gets sorted out at the recycling plant anyway, if a batch is contaminated it just goes to landfill anyway so what's the problem.

yeah. You're part of the problem.
They should introduce the system they have in Germany - if your bin is contaminated with non recyclables they slap a huge orange sticker on it saying that they're not taking it because it's full of non-recyclables.
Then you have to dispose of it yourself and all the neighbours know you're a selfish fucker. You used to see it quite a lot but nowadays nearly never.

Does he realize that the recycling is hand sorted. The sad reality is that he could be contaminating an entire load of recycling by doing this.
When something is put in our recycling bin which shouldn't be, I insist the whole thing is turned out and gone through with a fine tooth comb. It's not how anyone wants to spend their day so it's been quite successful.