What cheeses me off

[Quickstatus]

I gave up on their recycling ages ago and have my own recycling and green waste bin

A small hospital I worked at decided to do recycling. This went on for a year. It was driven mainly by the usual resident recycling activist - (there is one in every workplace )

After a while, and after getting berated for putting something in bin A when it should be going into bin B, I went down to the back and had a chat with the fellows involved with the rubbish management. Was only one fellow as it was a small hospital. I asked him how it was all going. He said it's a lot more work as there are different bins. But it all went into the same rubbish compactus. I took pictures. Within a day all the recycling stopped.

But the recycling activist tried to get it up and running again up until the place closed. I said to her for it to work she needed to have a separate path for the recyclables. She then said we should each take some recyclables home and put it in the residential recycling bins. Yeah Nah

Was a nice hospital but asbestos ridden. On some days you can see the whales going up and down the coast.

 

[tgh]

I must have affable friends because we always split the bill no matter who is winning in $ tems.
I am also occasionally guilty of passing the biil to swmbo when the group is mostly her friends as historically there has been a bit of penny pinching and value calculations that I can do without...

 

[Quickstatus]

penny pinching

WCMO is the "penny" is a really a sleight of hand involving a few quid or more- usually through the "getting change" trick

YKWYA!

 

[mrsterryn]

I live in an small apartment block and we have a recycling bin and waste bin - just went out to put something in the waste (I only have one small bag per week) and checked the recycling bin - on top of the bubble wrap were three pairs of unopened Qatar pyjamas. Luckily they were right on top so I grabbed them and will wash them (they don't really need washing because they are still in their bags) and give them away on my Buy nothing group

Ok we have a small townhouse block and no such fine offerings here lol

 

[RooFlyer]

WCMO is people who go to the post office to lodge cartons and who haven't done them up - counter staff need to spend time packing and taping for them.

 

[Ade]

WCMO are lounge patrons who order a coffee and then don't collect

And when they do eventually come to collect their drink they complain that it's not hot and they specifically ordered *extra-hot* ... hey! you asked for extra-hot and it was served extra-hot, but you were not here to collect it ...

 

[Warks]

I am getting really cheesed off at the moment at the YouTube algorithm. It’s pushing endless amount of anti-(topic not included as politics not allowed) short videos to me, when I just want to be entertained. Not have certain far-xx_-wing views thrust at me continually. I just find it annoying but the worrisome thing is people just eat this all up and let it inform their worldview.

I was getting all that right wing racist homophobic misogynistic garbage suggested all the time which I would never look at so I hit the "show me less of this" button and reduced it (got rid of Fox 'News' and their fascist talking heads along with Sky which seems to reappear now and again). Seems to work although there's always a new RWNJ to take their place.

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WCMO is people who go to the post office to lodge cartons and who haven't done them up - counter staff need to spend time packing and taping for them.

Then when it comes time to pay they have to start digging through their enormous bag to find their wallet?

 

[Pushka]

WCMO is people who go to the post office to lodge cartons and who haven't done them up - counter staff need to spend time packing and taping for them.

That will happen because AusPost doesn't put out tape etc for people to do it themselves when they buy one of their postage boxes.

 

[VPS]

A small hospital I worked at decided to do recycling. This went on for a year. It was driven mainly by the usual resident recycling activist - (there is one in every workplace )

After a while, and after getting berated for putting something in bin A when it should be going into bin B, I went down to the back and had a chat with the fellows involved with the rubbish management. Was only one fellow as it was a small hospital. I asked him how it was all going. He said it's a lot more work as there are different bins. But it all went into the same rubbish compactus. I took pictures. Within a day all the recycling stopped.

But the recycling activist tried to get it up and running again up until the place closed. I said to her for it to work she needed to have a separate path for the recyclables. She then said we should each take some recyclables home and put it in the residential recycling bins. Yeah Nah

Was a nice hospital but asbestos ridden. On some days you can see the whales going up and down the coast.

so are you saying you don't bother to recycle?

 

[MARTINE]

That will happen because AusPost doesn't put out tape etc for people to do it themselves when they buy one of their postage boxes.

Standing here right now
Queue out the door
Lots of parcels being deposited
No tape or anything like they used to have

 

[Quickstatus]

so are you saying you don't bother to recycle?

No but if the recycling all goes into general garbage like it did in this case, then no. And I am not taking hospital recycling home.

"Wishcycling" while a practical embodiment of recycling, often doesn't work. For most people their recycling is done once the item goes into the recycling bin. Proper recycling needs the recycling path to be completely different to the general waste stream - such as the "return and earn". It's not enough to just think "let's recycle" or

A lot of household recycling bins are contaminated. Usually because people wish items it to be recycled or assume they can be recycled. If it is not on the allowed list it can't go into the recycle bin irrespective of whether we think it should be recycled.

 

[VPS]

No but if the recycling all goes into general garbage like it did in this case, then no. And I am not taking hospital recycling home.

"Wishcycling" while a practical embodiment of recycling, often doesn't work. For most people their recycling is done once the item goes into the recycling bin. Proper recycling needs the recycling path to be completely different to the general waste stream - such as the "return and earn". It's not enough to just think "let's recycle" or

A lot of household recycling bins are contaminated. Usually because people wish items it to be recycled or assume they can be recycled. If it is not on the allowed list it can't go into the recycle bin irrespective of whether we think it should be recycled.

I agree about wish cycling but that's why I have my own bin. I know what goes in it. Especially green waste should not go to land fill

 

[dajop]

A lot of household recycling bins are contaminated. Usually because people wish items it to be recycled or assume they can be recycled. If it is not on the allowed list it can't go into the recycle bin irrespective of whether we think it should be recycled.

Or a whole stack of people who just don't care. It's an eye-opener to how the "other half" live when you have a holiday house you let out via AIrbnb and Stayz. We've had several groups of guests who basically don't give a sh#t about recycling, or what should or should not go in the recycling bin. At different times we've had to empty our recycling bins that have been stuffed full with things a varied as buckets of feta cheese, loaves of flat breads, soiled nappies, various fruit and veg. The list goes on. (#WCMO)

 

[Warks]

Or a whole stack of people who just don't care. It's an eye-opener to how the "other half" live when you have a holiday house you let out via AIrbnb and Stayz. We've had several groups of guests who basically don't give a sh#t about recycling, or what should or should not go in the recycling bin. At different times we've had to empty our recycling bins that have been stuffed full with things a varied as buckets of feta cheese, loaves of flat breads, soiled nappies, various fruit and veg. The list goes on. (#WCMO)

Whenever we have tradies at our house it seems they never ever understand the three bins - red - rubbish, yellow - recycling, green - green waste. Treated pine offcuts - green waste! Loose plastic wrap from pallets etc - recycling! Cardboard packaging - rubbish! Iced coffee plastic bottles filled with cigarette butts - recycling!
Walking down my street I always see recycling bins with stuff in plastic bags, also see green waste in garbage bags. There's zero education about it I guess but how basic do you have to make it?

 

[JohnK]

Continually taunted by the simulation.

My blackbook of horses to follow had 1 winner from 9 horses in the blackbook today. I'd backed every other horse except this one.

The strike rate of winners of the horses from my Blackbook that I don't back is phenomenal. It's well over 50%. Punters would pay lots for this type of insider information.

 

[dajop]

they never ever understand the three bins -

Wait until you have four bins! Although people do seem to get the purple glass bin, we've never had anything other than glass in that bin, touch wood.

 

[UP4014]

Wait until you have four bins! Although people do seem to get the purple glass bin, we've never had anything other than glass in that bin, touch wood.

And the blue bin for 10 cent deposit refunds.

 

[VPS]

I despair of people with recycling. One of my neighbours says she’s too busy to recycle (schoolteacher)

 

[Pushka]

Whenever we have tradies at our house it seems they never ever understand the three bins - red - rubbish, yellow - recycling, green - green waste. Treated pine offcuts - green waste! Loose plastic wrap from pallets etc - recycling! Cardboard packaging - rubbish! Iced coffee plastic bottles filled with cigarette butts - recycling!
Walking down my street I always see recycling bins with stuff in plastic bags, also see green waste in garbage bags. There's zero education about it I guess but how basic do you have to make it?

However I've also seen that different councils have different definitions on what is green waste and what can be recycled. There is no consistency in the message.

However that does not excuse the actions of those who couldn't care anyway.

What is the worst 'crime' I wonder. Putting potentially recyclable products into landfill or contaminating recycling by mistake.

 

[Pushka]

And the blue bin for 10 cent deposit refunds.

We dont have a blue bin. Red, yellow and green.