Yo think that tje recycling people are petty and should have collected this waste?

[malificent7]

Before you all start, I really respect recycling workers/ bin men and see their job as important. Put recycling out Wednesday ...they were supposed to collect then but arrived today.
Looked in bins afterwards and they have collected all recycling except for a few glass bottles. The reason being is that they are in the wrong box...they are not mixed is with other materials...all glass. Incidentally the glass box is a very similar green colour to the cardboard box. So basically they didn't take the glass as it was in the very similar box or cardboard. Why not just put it in the glass recycling bit of truck?
A few months back they didnt take the entire overflowing box of plastic as a small bit of cardboard was in it. I take care to segregate my recycling and I'm passionate about it but i do slip up now and again.
Aibu to think this is petty and will turn some off recycling( not me as im very keen) but i do get annoyed with overflowing bins.

It's not petty,they'e got hundreds of houses to get round so don't have the time or inclination to look through your bins and work out what should go where. That's why they give you separate bins.

YANBU. I think the OP is talking about open crate style boxes here rather than lidded bins.

I actually thought councils had stopped using that system years ago, everywhere I've been just has the standard recycling wheelie bin were you tip all recyclables in together, no sorting required.

Plus other shit if you hide it with a thick enough layer of recycling on top.

Open crate...all glass bottles were together...no other materials.

But in the " wrong" crate. It dosn't take a rocket scientist to figure out it was a mistake.

But you put it in the wrong box?

We get tape with contaminated on it like police tape and a red notice advising us what the correct system is if we get it wrong.

Our borough have separate lorries collecting from the different boxes. They cannot take the wrong type of recycling

Its a bit mental really we had an episode where a new to the area family got the recycling and rubbish bins mixed up logic would have you believe that you could just empty the wrong colour bin its identical so you don't need special equipment the only difference is.... colour....nope they wouldn't do it poor family had to empty both huge wheelie bins and swap the contents around what a welcome

I can't see what the issue is here, just put the bottles in the correct crate for the next collection.

Of course it’s petty! Does it all go in the back of the same truck?

Refuse collectors are like the security staff at airports checking your hand baggage. It's all about "educating" you. If they take your recycling from the wrong box, you'll never be "educated" to put it in the right box. Same with airport security. If they quickly/politely searched your bag and pointed out the accidental bottle of water, you'd not be "incentivised" to be more careful next time - they have to make a big deal about it, make you wait 15-20 minutes in the "queue of shame" waiting for your bag etc.

We have a plastic box for glass and bags for other items. The bags don't really seal well and after they have been emptied they blow over the road on a windy day. Dangerous potentially but the collectors are supposed to put the bags into the glass box. There are narrow roads where I live so there is often a queue of traffic behind them so they really don't have time to fiddle about. No biggie put it in the next collection

Not in our Borough @FreeBritnee. Separate lorries collect the different types of recycling.

Ours is “sort at kerb” recycling so it doesn’t matter where you put it. Unless you are behind the lorry waiting for them to sort a whole streets worth of recycling.

The thing is..i am " educated" aboutrecycling...I just put all the glass together in the " wrong" colour box ( same colour- different label).
This now means that waste with the potential to smash and hurt people/ creatures has to hang around for another week attracting flies and being unsanitary when it could be recycled and put to good use. Sone people would noe just chuck it in the bin. I won't but where is the sense in that?
We are moving house atm so very busy and prob made the mistake that way.
Either way, the environment suffers.

Sorry for typos

My bin men refused to take my cardboard because I put it in the glass recycling box once.

They are just open crates - exactly the same size and shape, just different colours.

The reason I had put the cardboard in the glass recycling crate is because on the previous collection day, they’d chucked the crate into the lorry with the cardboard. I’d ordered a new one, but it hadn’t arrived. I didn’t have any glass to go out (collected on a different week) so put it into the glass one to stop it blowing down the street.

I did think it was bloody petty to be honest. The council must have thought so too, as they sent the lorry back to empty it - I didn’t ask for it or anything like that, I phoned to chase up the new crate, they told me it could take 6 weeks, so I explained what had happened, and what should I do with the cardboard waste on bin day in the meantime.

I think YABU. I still have recycling leaflet stuck on my fridge to remind us what goes in what.

I don't blame them for my mistakes.

So the glass was in the wrong box, not mixed with other items? If so they were being petty, you might have mislaid the glass box (not sure how, but I suppose it could happen).

If the glass was mixed with other recyclables then you can't expect them to sort them at the kerbside.

Rubbish collection is the one tangible thing everyone sees for their council tax, but councils are incredibly reluctant to deal with it and like to put up barriers like this or having very short opening hours for the tips.

My neighbour tried to have his garden waste collected once.

It's a paid for service, it costs about 50p per very small plastic bag and he left out about ten quids worth on the appointed day.
They were still there in the evening, decorated with "Not collected as contains garden waste" stickers
It took him around three days and umpteen calls to various council departments to have it sorted.

This now means that waste with the potential to smash and hurt people/ creatures has to hang around for another week attracting flies and being unsanitary when it could be recycled and put to good use.

Yes, because you put it in the wrong box.

If it was taken away this time, people would then expect to start using the both boxes glass

recycling.

The bin men don’t know that it was a one off or that you are moving house. They have procedures to follow.

YABU

@Longestfewdaysupcoming

But you put it in the wrong box?

We get tape with contaminated on it like police tape and a red notice advising us what the correct system is if we get it wrong.

I mean that takes more time and effort than just emptying it would do surely?

It's a waste of time. Just take the sodding bottles!