country bumpkin
There are 6 flats in our block and 6 garbage bins numbered for each individual flat. Our garbage bins are emptied only every other week so recyclable bins have been provided to the apartment community so the bins do not overflow before the garbage is collected. Roy and I recycle all of our tins, plastics and paper to keep our personal bin from overflowing. We usually take our last full bag of garbage out to place in our bin the night before the garbage collection but lately when we try to empty our trash into our bin it is full of someone elses household garbage because he/she is two darn lazy to recycle. I want to write a note and stick it on the outside of our trash bin reminding people to recycle. What do you suggest we do? Uhmm, I hate to admit but a couple of times lately people who have thrown their garbage in our personal bin have found their stuff lying on the ground.
10 Answers
Ducky
Since it's difficult to track down the culprit in a situation like this, I would opt for putting a note on MY can. Something like..."We each have a can. Please use YOURS...NOT ours! Thanking you in advance for your co-operation".
| 8 years ago. Rating: 15 | |
Bob/PKB
You must not be able to put a lock on your bin, either, which is too bad. Maybe a bungee or chain can be looped around it and locked? Are ALL the bins jammed full when you take out your last bag? If not you might be able to figure out who the culprit is, then take the extra garbage (if it is bagged) out and put it by the front door.
Or, get a big bag and fill it with loosely wadded paper, so it seems really full. Put it in your bin so your bin looks full. Take it out every time you put new trash in and then put it back on top. You can just keep using that big bag to make your bin look fuller every week. I know, pretty dumb idea.
OR, just put each bag 'o trash in a different bin. That way, someone will complain to you and you can say that you have to use everyone else's bins because SOMEONE is using yours. The innocent ones may point you in the direction of the slob.
| 8 years ago. Rating: 13 | |
Honestly, I would put out my own bin and let the trash fall where it may. Keep your place as clean as you can. You two are giving your bin to someone else to use AND you are moving the bins for everyone.
STOP IT. Stop it for a couple of weeks and see if these deadbeats pick up the pace. Also, you know which trash in the bin is yours. Check the bags of the other bins during the week and you may be able to figure out whose trash is in your bin. AND, check your bin every morning and every night. Take out the bags that are not yours and put them in someone else's bin, or just put it on the ground and let the cats tear open a few. THAT may cure the trespasser.....hold your ground with the neighbors. You've had enough. Drastic times call for drastic measres
Flip
Why do you hate to admit that on a couple occasions you have put someone else's garbage on the ground?? That is exactly what you should do! Also a note... "THIS IS OUR BIN USE YOUR OWN". I know... it will cause hard feelings... but so what?
| 8 years ago. Rating: 10 | |
I am going to write a note and I will mention all the suggestions in this thread. Thanks for your suggestion.
jhharlan
Oh, no. What a delema. I guess seeing as it's only 6 flats, go to each and explain your problem and ask if they have experienced the same trouble. One of the flat's residents is the culprit. Maybe you won't know who but your message will be brought home. AND you get to know your neighbors. Know thy enemy.....
| 8 years ago. Rating: 9 | |
Tommyh
Hire a private eye to monitor the bin use & catch the culprit.Then you can sue them for unlawful trash can use.It should only cost yo a couple of grand to sort this out.
Yes! of course I'm kidding.
Merry Xmas To you & Roy CB.
Xmas gift idea....A bigger trash can.LOL
| 8 years ago. Rating: 9 | |
terryfossil 1
We only have the green and yellow lids,yellow being recycle,,yellow is emptied every other week,we have 3 units and 2 yellow and 2 green bins,if one of our bins are full,we use the emptyest bin we can find,,we just share and share,,.seems to work for us in Aussie,,we do not get hung up on this recycling,if the recycling bin is full,we just chuck it in the other bin,,maybe you guys have smaller bins than us..<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>..
| 8 years ago. Rating: 9 | |
zorro
Why don't you two move back to Tarzan land .You know you wont have that problem. Your going to miss the blizzard of the century this weekend , weather forecasters say. Now they saying possible up to 40 inches in some places.
| 8 years ago. Rating: 9 | |
tabber
what an irritation. but a lot of good advice here.
| 8 years ago. Rating: 7 | |
they might agree to be more aware and careful regarding the trash and recycling. i've had situations like this, it's not easy, but solveble in a peaceful manner. if they are not crazy they will probably react to your demeanor and attitude regarding the situation. good luck dear!!!
lindilou
Out here recycling is the law and we can be fined for chucking out the wrong stuff! Everything, including organic waste is recycled here and we do it willingly. Many gardeners here just compost their kitchen waste but our compost bins must be varmint proof and far away from the house... we have a lot of critters here especially along the waterfront! Eeeeks!
Now perhaps a leaflet expressing the merits of recycling as an effort to educate the non-recyclers could be placed in the post boxes of all or perhaps a meeting to do the same.... then the bins could be reassigned or increased in number to include the separate bins for tins, glass, paper and any return-ables for money could be donated to local charity or to the complexes new recycling program that you and the KOTF could create! LOL [I'm such a putz!] To prevent garbage from elsewhere being placed the bins themselves could be confined and locked? The land owner must be approached for solutions like these ie: arranging a tenant's meeting; securing the bins; free beers and bbq for all recyclers .... you get my drift! LOL
| 8 years ago. Rating: 6 | |
sunnyB
Trash, garbage,, vot is sis meaning.
Down here in the Essex countryside we still have weekly collections fortunately, and we have the bins in our gardens until collection day, then we just put out the black bags from inside. They have to be black of course ,otherwise the politicly correct dustmen won't take them. Where my son likes nearer the local town, he has fortnightly collection, so there are hundreds of black bags littering the streets around collection day, it's called progress apparently. The local dustmen have been banned by their boss from wearing Christmas hats and tinsel, health and safety another apparently.
I think your answer is either a chain and pad lock , (that's for the bin not Roy) or sit out and wait for the offender to turn up.
| 8 years ago. Rating: 6 | |
So far it has worked, because there hasn't been anything placed in our bin since the letter was written approx 5 weeks ago. One person has moved but the main culprit is still living here and I've seen him loading up his car with empty boxes and other recyclable items to take to the larger recycling site a few blocks from here.