Sorting The Rubbish Is Revealing A Few Secrets.

[sandyRoe]

The local council has introduced another small bin, that makes 4 now, and it's for glass. There are some neighbours who seem very fond of red wine, others who put out a lot of gin bottles, and a shared house where a lot of Polish beer gets drunk.
If you were a drinker would you want the entire world to know what you drank in the privacy of your own home?

[maggiebee]

My daughter used to help out an elderly friend now and again. Friend would never put bottles out at her house but asked my daughter to take them away and put in a bottle bank. Thought it rather funny, but obviously important to her.

[marval]

We have bottle recycling skips in a car park near me. It is hard to hide any drinking when you are walking up there with bottles clinking. We drink very little, just the occasional bottle of wine.

[Old_Geezer]

A small bin ????
For booze bottles ?????
What were they thinking ?

[Zacs-Master]

We already have a 'glass' bin. couldn't care lesh wha pipl think an i'll fight anyon oow says I av a problm. Pal.

[Frank97]

My alcoholic ex-neighbour used to fill my recycling bin up with her empties, can't say I was happy about that as I don't drink, so certainly didn't want people to think that I did!

[grasscarp]

You only got 4 bins sandy? We have green bin for glass, tin and cardboard. Dark green lidded bin for food. small bin in kitchen to feed outside bin. blue bag for paper, white bag for plastics, green bag for garden rubbish. Thats 6!

[twix123]

We've had a glass recycling box for many years. After a while the lids get blown away, allowing everyone to see your habits!

[Retrochic]

I think the recycling workers have very little time or inclination to give a toss
how many booze bottles are in your bin. We get 'emptied' once a fortnight and our bin looks like we've partied like its 1999

[decmangan]

Buy wine boxes!

[Frank97]

I wasn't remotely concerned about the bin men seeing, it was my other neighbours that bothered me.

[Hypognosis]

We were issued big plastic crates, to suit a party aftermath. It's quite comical putting it out with only a few food jars in it.

Meanwhile, I can hear avalanches of bottles on bin day (5-6am, for our street).

[Retrochic]

decmangan -if you could buy prosecco in wine boxes I'd be the first in the queue !

[Retrochic]

Frank97 why are you bothered what the neighbours think? Anyway -they could be thinking -wow! they know how to have a good time, I wonder if they'll invite us around sometime.

[sandyRoe]

There was an old man who liked his South African wine used to live in the same street as us. When the houses were demolished his side of the street went first. We could see that his back yard was about 6 ft deep in Mundies bottles. No recycling then, of course.

[Frank97]

Because I don't drink, so I don't see why I should be considered a drinker.

[ummmm]

When they were first introduced round here I was quite happy to see that I don't drink that much after all. I stack my boxes. Glass at the bottom, paper on top of that (that'll teach the nosey beggars) and cans/tins/plastics I put in white binbags because the box isn't big enough.

[Old_Geezer]

Look it's quite easy. Landfill goes into the black bin. Garden refuse goes into the green bin. Booze bottles got into the neighbour's bin.

[woofgang]

When we got bottle boxes, my neighbour said that he would NEVER be using his as the didn't drink enough to need one. That lasted about a month. I don't use mine because they require the bottles to be rinsed and I am blowed if i will waste my metered water on it. I go past a bottle bank on my way out so I still dump them myself.

[Daffy6543]

Our glass and plastics recycling bin is only ever full of empty plastic milk bottles, empty coffee jars, empty food tins.
All my neighbours appear to be fairly heavy drinkers judging by the amount of wine, beer and spirit bottles they get through in a fortnight.