colored bins
We have three colored bins. The blue is for recycling, the black is for trash, and the other one (not green, though it should be) is for yardwaste.
CLEARLY when roommate's boyfriend mows the laws he should put the clippings into plastic trashbags and put them in the trashcan. Clearly. What else would be sane?
OK, I've reached a detente with the recycling by taking it out every day. Otherwise it gets bundled up with trash and put in the trash - or in the recycling bin, which sort of defeats the purpose when it's tied in a bag with non-recyclable items. I frequently look in the trash, take out the recyclable items (though they've gotten better about it) and take them outside.
I just don't know what to do. Yesterday I had to leave a little note about not starting laundry after 9 pm - because last week it kept me up far later than I wanted to be up. So, I'm already crazy roommate. And that directly affects me.
But they will think this doesn't directly affect me. But it does - it's filling up MY landfills with grass clippings which could very nicely compost. ARGH!!!
They are SUCH consumers. And stop blaming the damn Americans because they are NOT Americans - she's Chinese and he's Kyrgyz.
Germans are the only ones I know who are cool with recycling in the US. Everybody else thinks I'm some trash-nazi when I suggest - as nicely as possible - that it takes no more effort to put it in the blue bin.
My kids recycle paper now because I scream when they don't (shriek in agony is perhaps a more accurate description). But, they just put it in a box that I lug home and put in the blue bin - because, of course, our school has no recycling. Why would it? ARGH.
Sigh.
Anybody stupid enough to put lawn clippings in plastic bags in a trash can when a yard waste bin is SITTING RIGHT THERE - I don't even know where to start with telling him why that's stupid. And he is only here on weekends, so he's not even the person who would be lugging that bin to the curb - that's roommate and yours truly.
Sigh.
CLEARLY when roommate's boyfriend mows the laws he should put the clippings into plastic trashbags and put them in the trashcan. Clearly. What else would be sane?
OK, I've reached a detente with the recycling by taking it out every day. Otherwise it gets bundled up with trash and put in the trash - or in the recycling bin, which sort of defeats the purpose when it's tied in a bag with non-recyclable items. I frequently look in the trash, take out the recyclable items (though they've gotten better about it) and take them outside.
I just don't know what to do. Yesterday I had to leave a little note about not starting laundry after 9 pm - because last week it kept me up far later than I wanted to be up. So, I'm already crazy roommate. And that directly affects me.
But they will think this doesn't directly affect me. But it does - it's filling up MY landfills with grass clippings which could very nicely compost. ARGH!!!
They are SUCH consumers. And stop blaming the damn Americans because they are NOT Americans - she's Chinese and he's Kyrgyz.
Germans are the only ones I know who are cool with recycling in the US. Everybody else thinks I'm some trash-nazi when I suggest - as nicely as possible - that it takes no more effort to put it in the blue bin.
My kids recycle paper now because I scream when they don't (shriek in agony is perhaps a more accurate description). But, they just put it in a box that I lug home and put in the blue bin - because, of course, our school has no recycling. Why would it? ARGH.
Sigh.
Anybody stupid enough to put lawn clippings in plastic bags in a trash can when a yard waste bin is SITTING RIGHT THERE - I don't even know where to start with telling him why that's stupid. And he is only here on weekends, so he's not even the person who would be lugging that bin to the curb - that's roommate and yours truly.
Sigh.
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