bad karma at the bottle bank

Bristolscale7

I have a friend who puts all his bottles, regardless of their colour, into the green bin at the bottle bank. He resents that the bottle bank is run by a private, for-profit company and he resents being compelled to do the work of sorting the bottles to maximize the efficiency and therefore profits of this private company. He resents the trace amounts of beer that always get spilled in the boot of his car on the way to the bottle bank. I've told him that he's just asking for it in terms of karma but he doesn't care--he lives his life recklessly.

The Backwards Man

If he gets a good hard plastic container to put the bottles in, that will save the boot, at least.

kneemos

No good deed goes unpunished.In you're friends case it's the smell of beer in the boot.

miamee

Trace amounts of beer? You're supposed to rinse them out as well as separate them by colour. Tell him he's getting a free service, the thankless fecker.

PixelTrawler

Bristolscale7 wrote: »

I have a friend who puts all his bottles, regardless of their colour, into the green bin at the bottle bank. He resents that the bottle bank is run by a private, for-profit company and he resents being compelled to do the work of sorting the bottles to maximize the efficiency and therefore profits of this private company. He resents the trace amounts of beer that always get spilled in the boot of his car on the way to the bottle bank. I've told him that he's just asking for it in terms of karma but he doesn't care--he lives his life recklessly.

Rebel without a clue

kneemos

miamee wrote: »

Trace amounts of beer? You're supposed to rinse them out as well as separate them by colour. Tell him he's getting a free service, the thankless fecker.

What's the point of rinsing them out,they're going to be smashed and thrown in a furnace.

Ando's Saggy Bottom

Bristolscale7 wrote: »

I have a friend who puts all his bottles, regardless of their colour, into the green bin at the bottle bank. He resents that the bottle bank is run by a private, for-profit company and he resents being compelled to do the work of sorting the bottles to maximize the efficiency and therefore profits of this private company. He resents the trace amounts of beer that always get spilled in the boot of his car on the way to the bottle bank. I've told him that he's just asking for it in terms of karma but he doesn't care--he lives his life recklessly.

Your friend has little to worry him in life.

PhlegmyMoses

Think I posted this here before. Brought down 4 cardboard boxes of bottles and a 6 pack holder of bottles a summer or two ago after a party. Separated them correctly, took my 4 boxes away. Unfortunately, I left the 6 pack holder on top of the bin and forgot to take it with me. Camera on the bins, took the reg plate of the car, €150 fine arrived in the post for littering. Cúnts

Mikehaw

PhlegmyMoses wrote: »

Think I posted this here before. Brought down 4 cardboard boxes of bottles and a 6 pack holder of bottles a summer or two ago after a party. Separated them correctly, took my 4 boxes away. Unfortunately, I left the 6 pack holder on top of the bin and forgot to take it with me. Camera on the bins, took the reg plate of the car, €150 fine arrived in the post for littering. Cúnts

Not aimed at you as you did it accidentally but people deserve to get fined the way they dump around the bottle banks. No shame on them

elfy4eva

TBH fair play to them as a company making a profit, they're
handling and recycling what is otherwise waste and providing
a straight forward free way of recycling.

There's a fair bit of work involved in distributing the banks,
collecting them and the whole process of breakdown and
redistribution. So it's employing people aswell!

Why on earth is your friend so begrudging on them making a profit
it's not like any of the cash comes from his pocket, he just provides
them with their raw materials which are otherwise useless
to him anyway.

...Everybody wins except the slugs that drown in the beer bottles.

kylith

What pisses me off is when you go to the bottle bank with a load of bottles and it's full so you have to cart everything home again.

Marsden

Bristolscale7 wrote: »

he doesn't care--he lives his life recklessly.

That's not reckless, that's moronic.

Kichote

i know someone who saw the bottle bank being emptied, they horsed the different colours glass into the back of the same lorry. After all the trouble honest law abiding people go through sorting them they mix them all up again!

Also what is the law abider supposed to do with an empty greenish brown or brownish green bottle of olive oil?

kylith

Kichote wrote: »

i know someone who saw the bottle bank being emptied, they horsed the different colours glass into the back of the same lorry. After all the trouble honest law abiding people go through sorting them they mix them all up again!

Also what is the law abider supposed to do with an empty greenish brown or brownish green bottle of olive oil?

I have been known to stand at the bottle bank with OH and debate whether it's a brownish green or a greenish brown. The outcome is generally: who f'king cares and it goes into whichever is closer.

PhlegmyMoses

Mikehaw wrote: »

Not aimed at you as you did it accidentally but people deserve to get fined the way they dump around the bottle banks. No shame on them

Absolutely.

At the same time, it'd probably make sense to stick a cardboard bin there as well, unless there is some logistical reason for this not being possible. The people are there to recycle, so would be happy to stick a few boxes into the bin.

kneemos

Kichote wrote: »

i know someone who saw the bottle bank being emptied, they horsed the different colours glass into the back of the same lorry. After all the trouble honest law abiding people go through sorting them they mix them all up again!

Also what is the law abider supposed to do with an empty greenish brown or brownish green bottle of olive oil?

Do they have the technology to seperate them in the recycling plant?

elfy4eva

kneemos wrote: »

Do they have the technology to seperate them in the recycling plant?

We can rebuild them.......We have the technology!

du Maurier

There's plenty of sand in the world. No need for this recycling malarkey.

Skull Murphy

Kichote wrote: »

i know someone who saw the bottle bank being emptied, they horsed the different colours glass into the back of the same lorry. After all the trouble honest law abiding people go through sorting them they mix them all up again!

The lorry has different sections for each colour. They aren't mixed up.

Sully

Skull Murphy wrote: »

The lorry has different sections for each colour. They aren't mixed up.

Depends on the bottle bank. Some are mixed up.

kneemos

Sully wrote: »

Depends on the bottle bank. Some are mixed up.

They can turn it into insulation presumably?

Pumpkinseeds

We took some bottles to our local bottle bank during the week. There was a chap well into his 60's bringing his empties back with his dog. Broken glass all over the ground, there always is and he's walking the dog through it. I couldn't believe the sheer bloody stupidity of it.

I also hate people who dump their empties at the bottle bank, not bothering to put them in the plastic containers, just driving in dumping them and expecting someone else to deal with it. It's even more fun in the humidity with angry bees hovering around those abandoned, unwashed empties while you try to recycle your own glass.

returnNull

The Backwards Man wrote: »

If he gets a good hard plastic container to put the bottles in, that will save the boot, at least.

sadly common sense aint that common

Mr. CooL ICE

Bristolscale7 wrote: »

I have a friend who puts all his bottles, regardless of their colour, into the green bin at the bottle bank. He resents that the bottle bank is run by a private, for-profit company and he resents being compelled to do the work of sorting the bottles to maximize the efficiency and therefore profits of this private company. He resents the trace amounts of beer that always get spilled in the boot of his car on the way to the bottle bank. I've told him that he's just asking for it in terms of karma but he doesn't care--he lives his life recklessly.

Some people just want to watch the world burn

John Mason

i never know where to put the blue and pink glass

biko

Bristolscale7 wrote: »

I have a friend who puts all his bottles, regardless of their colour, into the green bin at the bottle bank. He resents that the bottle bank is run by a private, for-profit company and he resents being compelled to do the work of sorting the bottles to maximize the efficiency and therefore profits of this private company.

Your friend is being a resentful dick, for nothing.
It's not like it's costing him anything to get rid of the bottles and there's just a tiny amount of work to separate the glass properly.
Then again, with any free service there is always some person there to **** things up out of spite.