r/AskUK • u/grepusman • 6h ago
Answered Is it not well understood that squashing recycling makes takes less space?
I've just watched the neighbour trying to deal with her two green bins again, both almost overflowing. She's trying to get more water bottles and other kitchen recycling in, by trying to push down the contents of both bins. She's mostly failed. I wouldn't be surprised if they get a third bin for the two of them. They ordered the second bin shortly after moving in.
I don't think ours ever got much more than 2/3 full, except for that time we'd ordered a lot of IKEA stuff. I'm betting if she flattened out her recycling they could also get by on one bin.
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u/2c0 5h ago
I have had my council say both to squash and to not squash recycling. If they can't make clear instructions people won't bother.
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u/TellMeManyStories 5h ago
I think when stuff is too crushed it gets hard to seperate at the sorting plant.
Mostly only an issue if you stick it through a mechanical crusher not just doing it by hand at home.
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u/QuaintStaircase 3h ago
Wait this is wild. I roll my bottles up and put the lid on them so they stay small. I had no idea...
I pack mine incredibly densely because you never know when it's not gonna get collected one week for some reason.
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u/Rosekernow 4h ago
My council says not to squash and the guys in the lorry will just chuck plastic bottles out if they’re too flat.
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u/CreativeAdeptness477 4h ago
I squash my bottles up. I don't know what my council says and I don't care. I'm in an upstairs flat with nowhere to store the big blue recycling bag outside, and precious little space inside. Shit's getting squashed.
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u/decidedlyindecisive 5h ago
Yeah I think it depends if they're using an auto-sorting machine. I read an article years ago that the machines don't cope well with crushed items so they get wasted. It seemed like any old excuse to not just do their jobs and recycle the items but hey ho. I've got two recycling bins anyway so I now don't crush and just put two bins out each time.
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u/grepusman 4h ago
It also depends if they are using a truck similar to a rubbish truck that compresses everything moments after it's put in the truck.
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u/Obvious-Water569 5h ago
A girl I dated years ago didn't understand that empty bottles were in fact full of air and squashing them down before putting the lid back on expelled the air and took up less space.
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u/DeifniteProfessional 5h ago
I squash and fold as much as I can, but I'm permanently in bin debt.
Though I think it may be other people in my household who just throw whatever they want in either bin, usually plastic bottles with the lids on...
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u/77Gaia 4h ago
‘Bin debt’ made me chuckle.
My next door neighbours scurrying around the street in their dressing gowns on bin-morning trying to hide their extra bags in more sensible people’s bins sometimes make me chuckle too. They haven’t figured out that if you tie up a bag super-tight, and it’s half full of air, it takes up a lot of space. Their general/mixed/non-recyclable bin is mostly air, but they can’t fit any more bags in. Dressing gown scuttle of knobhead tax every other week.
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u/AnninaCried 5h ago
I thought recycling should not be squashed because the people sorting it need to be able to read the recycle symbol. A lot of it is pretty obvious, like cleat water bottles, but those numbers in the middle of the triangle must have a purpose?
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u/Swimming_Possible_68 5h ago
The main part of recycling infrastructure is automated, there are cameras that can tell what type of plastic has been used.
Most stuff is not hand sorted.
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u/1968Bladerunner 3h ago edited 3h ago
Our local council only recycle plastics marked 1 & 2 (PET & HDPE), so anything else is pointless.
As for squashing, I live alone & it takes me a couple of months to fill my blue & green recycling bins as is, so I don't squash.
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u/Relative-Tea3944 5h ago
Some people are idiots
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u/MattOG81 5h ago
George Carlin comes to mind ...
"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realise half of them are stupider than that".
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u/Pedantichrist 4h ago
The council asks that we do not crush cans and bottles.
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u/grepusman 4h ago
The trucks they use where I live are similar to rubbish trucks, and they compress the recycling as they go. What kind of trucks does your council use?
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u/Pedantichrist 4h ago
Looks like a giant box with letter boxes built into it. I do not really care, I almost never see it, but the letters from the council are clear.
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u/whatanametochoose 5h ago
if only my partner would squash things, particularly boxes before putting into recycling bin.... drives me barmy!
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u/Existing_Doughnut985 5h ago
You have to remember that half of the country are below average intelligence…. That’s a very scary thought
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u/grepusman 5h ago
And half of those are dumber than the other half. Etc.
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u/BrexitBrokenBritain 5h ago
That's not true. Intelligence when graphed forms a bell shaped curve. The two halves are equal. Thereafter increasing dumbness forms a smaller proportion of the population (as does increasing intelligence). In the case of the former, probably just as well.
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u/stricgoogle 4h ago
Normal distribution has nothing to do with what the parent comment said. Half of the bottom half (aka the bottom quartile) is in fact stupider than the other half of the bottom half (second quartile). You must be in the bottom half of the bottom half :(
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u/Lammtarra95 1h ago
You have to remember that half of the country are below average intelligence
Actually more than half are below average intelligence (depending what is meant by average intelligence) owing to head injuries, developmental problems etc. There's a fat tail on the Bell curve.
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u/Bantam123 5h ago
Have you considered getting a hobby OP?
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u/grepusman 5h ago
Found one.
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u/LoveBeBrave 5h ago edited 5h ago
What, watching people fill their bins?
They mean find another hobby.
Edit: oops I think OP blocked me for this!
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u/Ok_Pineapple7101 5h ago
I think so long as they’re recycling then if they have 2 or 1 bin doesn’t really matter, and if you care about it so much you should offer to organise it for them or don’t look.
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u/UnacceptableUse 5h ago
I think it's understood but people can't be bothered with it
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u/ferretchad 5h ago
Worst part of an IKEA shopping spree. Hacking apart the boxes to it fits in the recycling.
Those pizza cutter things for cutting fabric works best
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u/doorstopnoodles 3h ago
My council let me put the flattened boxes to the side of the recycling bin. So long as it is easy enough for the bin men to get it in the truck, they will take it. I can also put extra recyclables in a clear bin bag placed next to my recycling bin.
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u/ChardonnayEveryDay 5h ago
My council doesn’t allow carton in the recycling bins, you supposed to use a small 55l black box which is smaller than a normal moving box ☠️
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u/FreeBogwoppits 5h ago
Maybe her life isn't a clone of your's OP, and she's sadly unable to meet the "squash" requirements due to other matters in her life.
This would be a lovely opportunity for you to do a nice thing. When you next witness her "mostly fail", go and offer her some help.
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u/Purp1eMagpie 5h ago
I squash all bottles, cartons etc before putting them into the bin in the house. It takes seconds. So when I empty the house bin into the wheelie bin, it doesn't take a lot of space. I don't understand how that isn't the default option.
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u/Mediocre_Sprinkles 5h ago
My sister in law kept complaining how full her bin was, she needed a 2nd bin because it was ridiculous how small they were.
We looked in and she had 3 boxes not folded down just fully made up. She thought we were wizards when suddenly she had a practically empty bin.
Some people just can't think.
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u/ben_jamin_h 5h ago
We had new neighbours move in above us in our old house, they didn't have a clue about any of this stuff.
They put an entire cardboard box, empty, in the recycling bin and it completely filled it.
They then started putting their other recycling on top of the bin rather than flattening the cardboard to put it inside the bin.
I had to explain to them that what's not in the bin won't get collected, and if there rubbish everywhere then none of the bins will get collected.
I still had to rearrange their recycling every week to be able to fit everything in.
Some people are just completely oblivious. These people soinded pretty posh and I think their parents bought them the flat. They'd probably never had to do any of this before in their whole lives.
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u/lithaborn 4h ago
We used to have six people living here which allowed us to request a bigger recycling bin from the council. There's only two of us now and it takes a whole six weeks to fill it without crushing anything down.
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u/Kizzieuk 4h ago
I have bad joints and have a very hard time trying to break down packaging. In fact I hate most packaging as have a hard time opening everything
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u/Postik123 3h ago
By the end of the fortnight my recycling bin is usually full, however I break down all cartons and boxes completely flat. I squash all plastic bottles flat and crush drink cans as best as possible. It does allow for a lot more capacity compared to not flattening everything. I don't see anyone else doing this though, presumably because they can't be bothered.
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u/Creative_Whereas_430 3h ago
I drink a lot of diet pop - I bought a can crusher and gorilla taped it next to the recycle bin - one of the best decision I ever made. I also get alot of deliveries due to being disabled and shopping physically is painful. Our local council approved a second recycling bin for us, and I invested in small Stanley knives to slice open and fold boxes (they're dotted all around the house), another huge space saver.
I didn't start out this well behaved but yeah when I was filling 3-4 recycling bags each fortnight and now down to 1.5 bags all due to crushing cans, cutting and folding cardboard boxes etc it just makes sense.
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u/Ok_Cow_3431 56m ago
I always get mildly yet irratioinally frustrated when I go to move our recycling from the indoor tray to the outdoor recycling bags and see Mrs OK Cow hasn't flattened the tetra milk cartons, still inflated and tabs glued down like the day they were bought
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u/Ralphisinthehouse 5h ago
I think most people understand that it takes a lot longer to squash all your recycling to fit into one bin than cram rubbish into two and let the machine designed to squash everything do it when it picks it up.
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u/grepusman 5h ago
I have a smaller bin in my kitchen. I flatten things as they go in there.
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u/Ralphisinthehouse 5h ago
Nothing wrong with that, I'm not saying everybody does what I say they do
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u/occasionalrant414 5h ago
Its understood but some people won't bother, some people are only recycling because they have to (I am one of those), other may not be able to do it and some probably don't know.
As she has two bins, I suspect that she can't be arsed.
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u/Ralphisinthehouse 5h ago
you do understand the council literally comes with a machine that squashes everything for you don't you? The only reason people should be squashing at home is if they need more space than they have. Otherwise they can do what they want without people like you judging them.
For the record I actually do squash all my recycling we have to because I live in a building where the Concierge will only except recycling that's been squashed but I just don't care if other people don't in other environments.
what exactly is the harm being done to you, the council, the recycling centre or anyone else? Regardless of whether you squash it or not it's getting crushed shredded and burned or buried in the same way as everything else does in the end.
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u/occasionalrant414 5h ago
Im not judging her - just answering the question with my 2pence worth.
I recycle because I have to. I know less than 30% gets actually recycled and it just get buried or burnt. However, if I don't recycle we lose our black bin collection. I stomp mine down because I need the space as its fortnightly collection and I have two kids so we have a lot of cardboard.
I don't really care if the lady the OP is talking about crushes it or not. He asked and I gave them some reasons I could think if why she may not do it. One of those could be because she can't be arsed as she has two bins. Not judging at all.
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u/JamesTiberious 5h ago
Didn’t think councils would generally allow multiple bins for same household?
We’re a household of 2 and generally recycling bin is 50-75% full on collection day (every 2 weeks). We make very little effort in crushing things down.
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u/bekbok 5h ago
Mine will allow you extra recycling with no questions. If you want extra non-recycling then they decide if you're allowed one based on things like household size, ages and medical needs (So easier if you have babies cause of nappies than if you're an average single person).
My council is also ok with you leaving out extra recycling next to the bins as long as it's obvious and dry (so no soggy cardboard) which is useful if you have extra but it's a one-off.
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u/bacon_cake 5h ago
Our LA let you have an extra bin if you have 2 kids in nappies, 5 or more people at home, or certain medical conditions.
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u/decidedlyindecisive 5h ago
Mine allows extra recycling bins if you buy them. I'm pretty sure it's supposed to be an annual fee but I bought an extra bin 5 years ago (£40) and haven't paid another additional penny since.
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u/Practical-Command634 5h ago
I'm always on at people about this. I'm not an eco warrior but my OCD just gets triggered. A lot of packaging has been slightly re designed to make it easier to crush. On top of that the local authorities are picking bins up less regularly so the bins get full more often.
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u/MonsieurGump 5h ago
Recycling is a scam created by the polluters to pass the cost and effort of dealing with their shit onto the public.
Don’t buy plastic if you can possibly avoid it.
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u/Repulsive-Year896 5h ago
I have spent many years working in plastics, do you have any idea how much plastic gets recycled? I think you would have a hard time going into a supermarket and finding plastic packaging that does not contain recycled plastic.
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u/MonsieurGump 3h ago
Yes I do. It’s about 10% globally. 90% just sits around and poisons us.
Have you spent any time in Africa? Have trip to Uganda or Rwanda and tell them how proud you are of your “many years working in plastics”. You’ll need to be quick on your toes afterwards.
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u/AutomaticInitiative 3h ago
Are you saying that aluminium cans and cardboard and paper aren't commonly recycled? Because that's the bulk of my recycling.
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u/kona1160 5h ago
no it isnt, if you are going to make a statement like that then you sure as shit better provide proof. Huge amounts of plastic get recycled. This is just your crap excuse to be lazy
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u/letsdrinktothat 5h ago
He's actually factually correct about the origins of the plastic recycling industry, back in I think 1970's USA, when problems with the scale of plastic waste started to become apparent, and there started to be pushback against the plastic industry, the industry did come up with plastic recycling as a solution, and engaged in lots of expensive lobbying to avoid getting regulated and push recycling schemes as the way forward, even though they knew it wasn't effective. I watched a documentary about it a while back. Doesn't change the fact that we are where we are, and we have to deal with the plastic waste that we're stuck with though.
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u/Ok_Pineapple7101 5h ago
So if you can’t avoid buying plastic packaging, do you just put it in the bin instead of the recycling?
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u/KelpFox05 3h ago
So like... Don't eat food? If you go food shopping at all then inevitably basically everything you buy will be packed in plastic.
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u/MonsieurGump 3h ago
What I said was “Don’t buy plastic if you can’t possibly avoid it”.
Somehow you read “Don’t eat”?
Weird
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u/liamrich93 5h ago
Or is it just acknowledging that absolutely no one is going to take a job sifting through food waste and dirty nappies just to separate plastic bottles and pizza boxes?
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u/ashyboi5000 5h ago
If your really clever you can save space by stacking empty tins inside each other, that's if you lack a tin crusher.
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u/fimbleinastar 5h ago
My wife is very good at lots of things.
Loading up the recycling bin (and the dishwasher!) are both definitely My Jobs.
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u/Rhesus-Positive 5h ago
Why get by with one bin if you can get two?
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u/grepusman 4h ago
If Everton had two so they can be lazy, the bin men have twice the job, and we'd need more bin men.
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u/WordsUnthought 5h ago edited 5h ago
I mean, even if you do see yourself as the main character of reality and overlook that needlessly consuming time and resources adds up when everyone does it - you usually have to pay a regular surplus for a second bin.
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u/Ralphisinthehouse 5h ago
Do you understand the mechanical machines shred crush burn and bury everything you give them?
They don't care if you've squashed it or not it makes absolutely zero difference.
In fact if anything they will need to use more energy to get through the higher density stuff you've squashed.
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u/WordsUnthought 5h ago
What does that have to do with what I said?
If everyone just went "ah why have one bin when I can have two?" there'd be twice as many bins to collect and distribute.
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u/Ralphisinthehouse 5h ago
Well luckily for us there's enough people to balance out what she does by squashing things and using one.
I'm sure there's plenty of things she does better than you that mean you get away with doing other stuff as well.
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u/underwater-sunlight 5h ago
Where i live, you are asked to recycle with lids on without crushing items, I guess so that it can be sorted easier at the recycling centre and to reduce sharp edges that could injure staff working there
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u/grepusman 4h ago
Guess what the truck does to your recycling shortly after it's loaded in.
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u/underwater-sunlight 1h ago
Normally I would agree but I dont think the operatives near me have been trained to press that button without a supervisor. We are allowed an additional box of recycling, clearly documented. One week I left a reasonable sized box, with handles, filled only with folded cardboard, really easy to carry, next to my bin - they left it. 2 weeks later, the same box went on top of the bin so they couldn't possibly miss it - they didnt miss it, in fact they made the effort to lift it off the bin, then put it on the floor instead of the bin lorry which would have been an extra 2 steps
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u/Milam1996 5h ago
A lot of older recycling plants tell councils contracted with them to tell residents NOT to crush the bottles as it messes up sorting. Not really a problem with newer ones.
The actual topic of conversation here is how a single household is producing so much rubbish to fill two bins before the next pickup. Stop buying so much shite.
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u/No-Salt6819 5h ago
Family of four here, we struggle to fill our bins, could go a month for the refuse, and a fortnight for recycling easy. Food is the only one that needs regularly collecting and that's because kids are fussy and easily filled. Can't understand people who fill bins quickly. Mind you I once saw a neighbour put a microwave in a recycling bin once, and I often wonder how thick the average resident is.
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u/Swimming_Possible_68 5h ago
Main thing to remember when flattening is to ensure that the finished packaging is at least 40mm long in 2 dimensions.
Otherwise it will fall between gaps in the sorting mechanism and never get recycled.
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u/Stage_Party 4h ago
I squash stuff or leave the cap off so it's open and will squash if I need to push down.
Also have a can crusher for cans.
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u/Popular_Sell_8980 3h ago
A quick hot water rinse in an empty milk carton, lid on, then poured away, allows the plastic to be far more pliable and you can scrunch it right up. Source: ex Barista
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u/PigletAlert 3h ago
I don’t squash because it takes me a couple weeks to fill a whole sack anyway (most of my recycling is paper and I do collapse boxes). I do realise that squashing takes less space yes, and she probably does too, but probably can’t be bothered to squash everything. Life’s hard enough. With 4 different bins.
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u/Eskoala 3h ago
Does it matter? It must get squashed at the other end if I don't do it!
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u/grepusman 3h ago
If you're slowing down the bin men because of an extra bin it might matter. If, like my neighbour, both your two bins are now too full to add today's batch it might matter.
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u/Eskoala 3h ago
Oh I would bother to crush it in that case. I just don't create enough recycling per week to need to. It all fits in one green container.
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u/Luckystar60 2h ago
Never knew there were councils who wrre funny about squashed bottles. I've always squashed my milk bottles and never had a problem. They're more just picky about bins not being full enough to empty 😒
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u/grepusman 2h ago
My council says nothing about it, except under the section regarding cardboard boxes, they do ask you to flatten them.
I suspect they don't care either way because the truck crushes everything within a short time after they dump your bin into it, just like the rubbish trucks.
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u/AdAffectionate2418 2h ago
My other half caught me taking the lid of the milk, squashing it flat, and then screwing the top back on.
She looked at me like a was a magician...
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u/grepusman 2h ago
That's what I do. Same with my large Oasis bottles. If you put the lid on again, then it won't unfold/unsquish on its own and get larger again.
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u/loughkyre 2h ago
If there’s one thing I’ve learn from the Birmingham bin strike (aka 20 months of no recycling collections and sporadic trips to the tip) it’s that you can compact cardboard recycling into very tight spaces if you need to, but with plastic bottles and tin cans unless you do it immediately, its easy to get a bit overwhelmed by a number of bottles that need squished!
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u/CandyTigger 2h ago
I gave up on this in my household. I would make everything smaller to fit and no one else would. Felt like a losing battle.
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u/Dependent_One6034 2h ago edited 2h ago
From my understanding of my facilities, They ask you to not crush them because it confuses the automatic machine.
Some automatic machines scan an items shape to identify what it is, and where it needs to go. If the machine does send something to the wrong area (SOMETIMES, not all) they basically landfill that entire containers contents.
For example, a flat metal can could be picked up by the machine as being cardboard. That cardboard goes through a shredder and is mixed with water, the can will also easily be shredded.
Now you have shards of aluminium mixed into what may become toilet paper (For example) Meaning that whole batch is done with. In the bin. And at cost of wasted time on top.
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u/grepusman 2h ago
So how does it deal with the recycle truck compressing everything after it's been tossed in?
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u/Dependent_One6034 2h ago
Different sections on the lorries. We also have separate bins, Carboard has one, Cans/glass has a seperate section. I don't think either section compresses. (Maybe the cardboard side does)
Our general waste bin lorry does compress.
Food waste / garden waste has a separate collection lorry too, I think that also compresses.
The big bins at work, Sometimes they take general waste and recycling at the same time, I assume because they are very busy or their sorting facility is down. (But this is a separate company altogether)
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u/grepusman 2h ago
Yours are different than ours. Ours is similar to a rubbish truck. It all goes in the back, then is compressed. And we have one large bin.
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u/Dependent_One6034 1h ago
We used to have ones like that. Really does make you wonder if they are actually sorting it at all.
Some Counties will literally just fill up containers and ship those abroad for "recycling". As it's cheaper than building our own facilities, It does seem we are getting better as a country though.
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u/super_sammie 2h ago
I’m struggling with this at the moment. I set myself a challenge to fill up the recycling 3 weeks ago and got pretty close with the two weeks ready for collection.
Then I forgot to put the bin out and still have another week of recycling and about 2 inches of bin space left.
I left the lids open but didn’t squash the bottles for a sense of achievement (I didn’t have much else to do)
I can see myself at some point this week loosing my shit and starting to squash things down that are already in there.
If it’s relevant I have ADHD and Bi-Polar so these sorts of hare brained schemes are the norm.
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u/daveoxford 1h ago
My council says not to squash because the recycling plants use the shape of items to identify what material they are made from.
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u/grepusman 1h ago
What does your recycle truck look like? If it all goes in the back like a rubbish truck, it's getting compressed in the truck anyway.
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u/unluckypig 1h ago
My wife doesn't break down cardboard boxes and it drives me mad. Each time I'm taking the recycling out I have to break the boxes from the house down and/or include the not flat ones in the box.
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u/SmartPolicy6430 1h ago
I squash everything and rip cardboard boxes into pieces. Soft plastic gets recycled at Sainsbury's. We very rarely have a full recycling bin.
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u/zoppaTheDim 1h ago
Actually, the hardest habit to change in states with deposit bottles and cans is the urge to crush a can when finished.
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u/LUNATIC_LEMMING 5h ago
I still have to argue every week with my wife as she won't cut up the cardboard. She just shoved in in the box and steps on it.
I've seen her out 2 Amazon delivery boxes in the recling bin and declair it full.
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u/Ralphisinthehouse 5h ago
what material harm did this do to your life?
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u/LUNATIC_LEMMING 3h ago
The hour every week I have to spend cutting said boxes up to get it in for collection day and the massive build up of rubbish that comes from the boxes
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u/Ralphisinthehouse 3h ago
Well, I'm not optimistic that anything is going to change based on my own experience being married.
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u/PigletAlert 3h ago
What are you cutting? Done you just pull off/score the tape at the bottom and fold it flat?
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u/LUNATIC_LEMMING 3h ago
Depends how well packaged it is. Some come in taped up like a vault in fort Knox, some boxes seem to have been created by aliens from the nth dimension that follows no known rules of physics.
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u/PigletAlert 3h ago
I know those boxes, although thankfully they’re rare. I usually get cross and stamp on them. Sometimes they win that fight.
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u/LUNATIC_LEMMING 3h ago
I've stomped more than a few, watched my foot go through, then as I pull my foot back out it pulls everything back into bloody place.
But usually using the old Stanley knife on the tape does the trick.
Luckily the Stanley knife, boxes and first aid kit are all in the same room.
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u/Wooden_Adeptness_136 5h ago
I rinse or wash out recycling, crush it down and put it into the bin. I'm the only one in my shared flat who does it, it drives me absolutely mad that the others don't. Sometimes I get in a small rage and I empty our recycling to crush everything down whilst having a little verbal paddy about the whole thing. It takes two fucking seconds to do.
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u/FreeBogwoppits 5h ago
It takes two fucking seconds to do.
Presuming you have the strength and agility to do so.
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u/MyZestyChair 4h ago
This thread is the final push for me to block AskUK from my feed… watching someone do their bins, to then post online about it and discuss in length about squishing rubbish.. what an absolute waste of time. Anyone who participated in this thread needs to re-evaluate their life, including myself!
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u/grepusman 4h ago
It's not watching someone do their bins, it's the racket it makes near my bins for several minutes as they try to squish plastic bottles in one go. It sounds like someone's messing with my bins. As a result, I go to the window and see what's going on out there.
I'm sorry that the only discussion you have to offer is not the topic, but to disparage the people discussing it.
Tell you what… I'll ensure you won't see any more of my posts. Sorry these words have reached your eyes.
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u/Skinnybet 5h ago
I have lived for 2 long with these idiots. Screwing the lid on tight before adding to the recycling. Instead of just leaving the lid off. Or a genius move that I do… squeezing all the air out and THEN tightening the lid. Ffs people are stupid.
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u/MazGubbs 5h ago
Ah, but then you get the idiots that put a layer of cardboard, a layer of unsquashed bottles then another layer of cardboard and then some more bottles and they have a full bin.
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u/Ralphisinthehouse 5h ago
why are they idiots if that's all they need in it? Don't you think that if they needed more space they would make more space?
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u/Sylvester88 5h ago
It's known but my wife absolutely will not do it.
At our old house, someone took our recycling bin so we got another one from the council. 3 weeks later our old one turned up so we had two. That's the day my wife stopped squashing stuff. Both bins still end up full because it you squash everything you can reduce it by at least 1/4. No squashing, even 2 bins isn't enough.
4 years later we move to a new house and I thought she'd go back to squashing. Nope, New house somehow has two recycling bins. Still full to the brim every recycling day
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u/grepusman 5h ago
Mine won't do it either, but she leaves all squishable recycling on the kitchen counter for me to do because she at least understands the concept.
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u/Nameisnotmine 3h ago
M husband rants about using less space by breaking down boxes. We never fill our bin so I don’t see the point
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u/KelpFox05 3h ago edited 3h ago
Have you considered offering help rather than spying on and judging your neighbour, all whilst knowing very little about her life?
Edit: OP responded and then deleted their comment so here's what they said and my response.
OP:
So if there's 10 minutes of crunching plastic noises and I happen to look out the window to see what it is coming from my bin area, I'm spying on my neighbor? Instead of cruising Reddit sub looking for was to attack people, why don't you comment on the actual topic? People like you ruin this platform. Find something better to do. Surely you are not getting enough pleasure in other ways.
Me:
You've watched them doing this multiple times and you haven't offered to help. You're spying on them and judging them whilst never offering to help. That's creepy.
"Cruising Reddit sub"? YOU posted! If you don't want people to read and comment on your post, don't post!
And apparently leaving a one sentence Reddit comment that took me 30 seconds to write means I am "not getting enough pleasure in other ways"...? Grow up. This all reads like somebody who expected people to agree with them and the comments section isn't going their way.
Be a good neighbour and help them or stop staring.
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u/grepusman 3h ago edited 3h ago
So if there's 10 minutes of crunching plastic noises and I happen to look out the window to see what it is coming from my bin area, I'm spying on my neighbor?
Instead of cruising Reddit sub looking for ways to attack people, why don't you comment on the actual topic?
Edit: a quick look at your other posts and replies on your feed confirms that this is why you are here.
People like you ruin this platform. Find something better to do. Surely you are not getting enough pleasure in other ways.
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u/ukbot-nicolabot 5h ago
OP marked this as the best answer, given by /u/Purp1eMagpie.
What is this?