Partner searching bin bags

[Mrsbinbags]

My bf is really into recycling and I make an effort to recycle too. We moved in together 5 years ago and a few times I found him opening and searching through bin bags for things to be recycled and thought he was just being really environmentally aware.
Over the last few weeks I had a clear out of tons of old things and wrapped them up well in bin bags. I made sure to wrap them tightly because there was some expired medicine in there and we have a dog and a toddler.
Last weekend I emptied the recycling and found 5 small cardboard boxes from expired paracetamol packets in the recycling so he must have opened the bag and picked out the 5 boxes from the stuff I threw away.
Today I found him searching through the bathroom bin for things to recycle. There is a bin strike at the moment and nowhere to put the rubbish or I would have emptied the bin once it was half full. After living with a woman for 5 years is it unreasonable to expect him to understand that there might be wrapped up sanitary towels or tampons in the bathroom bin that shouldn't be picked through? Isn't searching for used tampon applicators in a bin a bit extreme?

Could it be something like OCD?

Uhhh that's reaaaally fucking weird for him to be doing that.

Ewww

That would drive me nuts.

Years ago my sister lived in a flat share with a bloke who had grown up in Germany and he was like this about recycling. Apparently
where he lived (army camp) they used to be fined for anything in the bin that could be recycled and his parents were really strict about recycling.
This guy was really nice but totally and utterly militant about recycling and would go back through the bins, she found that part quite odd and I remember it being a bit much too!

Yes extreme.. but expired medicine should be returned to the chemist.

He takes your used tampon applicators out the bin? 🤢

OMFG

He should not be putting used tampon applicators in the recycling bin. It’s unsanitary and a health hazard. Tampons have had contact with blood, and since blood is considered as human waste, most recycling aces streams can’t and won’t process them.

*most recycling places can’t and won’t process them.

Why don't you recycle yourself I wonder? Like cardboard paracetamol boxes with the paper-recycling?

That would make me feel very uncomfortable but I can't quite find the words to say why. If feels like a massive breach of privacy.

You take expired medicine to a chemist to be disposed of. Well done to the partner

Tell him to stop acting like a nutter.

I would find my OH ducking through a bin so deeply unattractive and mean TBH I’d find it hard to find a way back to liking them after that. What a weirdo

*rifling

In the same way you've recycled this old thread??

Good luck to him trying to get laid after this

That is disgusting

Why the need to swear?

Id find that really intrusive and invasive

Where is the swearing?

I hope he washes his hands properly after doing this!

It does seem a bit extreme.

Which of my words was a swear word? Was it "recycled" or "old thread"???

Have you considered a moon cup? Maybe he would be impressed by your attempt to be more environmentally conscious

@mangoontoast , why, does it bother you? Indeed it's old(ish) but the question is still valid.