Neighbours. Bah.

[mousme]

Dear neighbours,

I applaud your decision to recycle. No, really: it's good for the environment and all that. I, too, recycle regularly.

However, recycling does NOT mean piling mounds and mounds of unsorted TRASH in MY recycling bin.

No, really. I don't want your garbage in my recycling bin, which I take great pains to keep properly maintained. Please to do your own sorting and to get your own FREE green box from the local eco-centre, which is ONE WHOLE BLOCK AWAY.

No love,

Me

Comments

[taxlady.livejournal.com]

I used to get that too. And, some neighbours put their recycling in my bin. That's usually not a problem. But, every now and then, here in DDO, they forget to pick up the recycling. I don't want to bring other people's recycling back into my house. Thankfully, we now have large curbside bins.

What I did was to never crush or flatten anything that went in recycling. The object of that was to have a bin too full for other people to use.

[karine.livejournal.com]

I would advise you give this letter (or a less Grr, Argh version of it, anyways) to the neighbours, actually. It is entirely likely that they have no idea how to get a green box. (lotsa poepel r dumm nowadais.)

[pasley.livejournal.com]

Hear hear.

[mousme.livejournal.com]

It's a good idea, except I'm not sure which of my neighbours it is. I don't want to necessarily antagonize all my neighbours just because one of them is an ignorant jackass. :P

[toughlovemuse.livejournal.com]

Put the note on the recycling bin next time you put it out, perhaps?

When we were on Drolet, if we put our bin out too early, it would be filled with the garbage people dropped in while they were walking by - UGH.

[swestrup]

I'm reminded of the problem faced at an army base where folks kept leaving the door to Rec area open. They needed to put up a sign, but didn't want to antagonize any of the senior officers that used the place. The wording they finally chose was this:

"Hey, Moron, SHUT the door!
Not you, Sir!"