Help me convince DH to recycle!

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I’ve been with DH for 10 years and lived together for 7 years and will as I might, I CANNOT get him to recycle properly.

He uses the recycling bins, don’t get me wrong. But, he washes nothing, doesn’t empty/flatten, will put anything he sees fit into the bins… He mixes metals with glass, will leave polystyrene inside cardboard boxes… and the rest. But, try as I might, I can’t get him to stop. I’ve even told him to leave the lot on the side and I’ll sort it but, nope.

I’ve just bought a recycling unit for indoors, with the hope it will make it painfully easy and I’ve sent him the local council’s guidance for ‘what goes where’ and won’t they won’t accept. Alas - Just now he tried to put a sausage roll wrapper in the plastic bin and when I called him out, his usual rant came out about how he isn’t bothered what goes where because, they always still take it away and the general waste bin gets too full so, he uses it as overflow. I constantly tell him how him doing this is even less useful than just not recycling at all but, he said he’s not bothered.

Does anyone know of any blackfish-esque Netflix documentaries or something I can show him to make him realise that he’s a big part of the issue! I know how his mind works and he’s not daft, just every so often he can be ignorant to things that he doesn’t think directly impacts him. I’ve shown him documentaries etc before for other unrelated subjects and made him see that a little bit of education isn’t a bad thing so, I really think this would help!

Tia!

Its better for him to put it all in the black bin than contaminate the recycling

There was the Hugh fearnly-Whittingstall series from a couple of years ago. Think it was a bbc one.

@Potatoy I know :( that’s what I keep telling him

@HasaDigaEebowai Thanks for the recommendation! Will take a look!

I don't know that a documentary will work. He just sounds lazy. You're lucky they take all that shit in your recycling. Once we put a clean cotton sheet into the recycling as we thought they did textiles and the council sent us a letter through the post saying our recycling was contaminated.

It's fairly likely to have some impact on the recycling from your home being actually recycled even if they do take it away.

This would drive me bonkers. It's so pig headed.

Maybe arrange for him to do a days work experience collecting the recycling? Then he can see what a pain it is to sort.

@Flatdisco tell me about it! We moved areas a view years ago and the last council were much more strict with their collections, which helped my argument at the time but, he slipped back into his ways as, he doesn’t seem to believe me that it contaminates the waste. Hence me trying to prove it. He keeps telling me they have sortation centre for that type of thing… eye roll!

@Potatoy Not a bad idea!!

I would put all recycling in an indoor bin and then you pick up the job of once a week transporting the recycling to the outside bins where you can properly sort it out.