I have seen what happens when you put cardboard boxes whole in the cardboard recycling bin: it’s “full” immediately!
I have also seen people who do not remove the styrofoam filling before dumping them.
Or don’t even bother putting them inside the bin, just leaving it by the side.
All that gets my blood boiling. This casual carelessness because “it’s trash, so what?”
Again, the first step should always be to point this out to newcomers, but.
The fact that OOP basically says “cardboard is nothing” and says they’d burn it instead tells me they just might be the asshole here.
Yea, I got a slight tingle here of OOP not being entirely without a fault on this one. But then again, my flavour of the ‘tism makes me meticulously fold and compact all of my trash to avoid any wasted space.
OOP didn’t bother to remove the address stickers, a minor effort that would have protected them from this very situation, and if they didn’t bother to do even that…
That said, going straight to the legal system in this situation is also an asshole move. Definitely a case of “we’re probably not getting the whole story, but how would we even know?”
Did the lady try to talk to her neighbor first?
OOP does not clarify.
But.
I have seen what happens when you put cardboard boxes whole in the cardboard recycling bin: it’s “full” immediately!
I have also seen people who do not remove the styrofoam filling before dumping them.
Or don’t even bother putting them inside the bin, just leaving it by the side.
All that gets my blood boiling. This casual carelessness because “it’s trash, so what?”
Again, the first step should always be to point this out to newcomers, but.
The fact that OOP basically says “cardboard is nothing” and says they’d burn it instead tells me they just might be the asshole here.
Yea, I got a slight tingle here of OOP not being entirely without a fault on this one. But then again, my flavour of the ‘tism makes me meticulously fold and compact all of my trash to avoid any wasted space.
The neighbor should’ve just talked to OP first.
But yeah, how hard is it for people to flatten their cardboard? Dare I say, it is even fun sometimes getting to stomp on it.
It’s definitely fun!
OOP didn’t bother to remove the address stickers, a minor effort that would have protected them from this very situation, and if they didn’t bother to do even that…
That said, going straight to the legal system in this situation is also an asshole move. Definitely a case of “we’re probably not getting the whole story, but how would we even know?”
Who tf removes adress stickers before getting rid of trash in their own trashbin
The people in your house already know where you live and whats your name
It’s a privacy measure for recycling specifically that I thought was commonplace. Maybe not in Germany.
Not that it really matters
But where do you think it’s commonplace?
Not all stickers are paper recyclable.
That might be correct
But not what the original comment was about