Recycling

Today's rant is going to be about recycling.

I hate recycling!  Well, actually that's a lie.  I think recycling is a very good thing and I'm all for saving the planet and all that.

However the thing that really annoys me is...........................  recycling and holiday makers...........

I live in a complex of 12 properties where at least half of them are holiday lets.  We have two big bins in our car park for general waste, we have a compost bin in the communal courtyard area, but unfortunately the 'holiday let' properties do not have recycling facilities.  They do not have recycling facilities for 3 reasons:

1)  The recycling is only collected once every couple of weeks and getting holiday makers to put out the recycling at the correct time is an impossibility?!  They're on holiday.  They can't be bothered to put the recycling out at a set time.  They've come away to get away from all of that.  Holiday makers don't even seem to be able to dispose of their own babies nappies but that could be a whole other rant!

2)  Here in the South West we have different coloured bags for different things.  The bags are very flimsy so unless one is actually around when the flimsy bags are emptied.................. one could arrive home in the evening and find that all the flimsy bags have actually blown away.  And apart from anything else; the properties here are not mansions so no-one actually has any room in their property to store 3 flimsy recycling bags for two weeks.

3)  In the 'property holiday maker information folder' they are told that there are no recycling facilities at the property and they are given the directions to the nearest recycling facilities.  If they choose not to use them and chuck everything in the communal bins, then so be it???

The trouble with holiday makers is.......................  they never read anything.  They just seem to think that a 'property information folder' is something to be ignored!!!

Anyway, one of my very lovely neighbours spoke to the guys who collect our recycling every couple of weeks and asked if we left some of our 'old fashioned recycling boxes' by the courtyard gate would they be able to collect them for us and empty them.  Very lovely recycling guys said that as long as everything was sorted then yes they would.  Just how lovely is that.  These guys are definitely going well and above the line of duty?!!!

Unfortunately the holiday makers have decided that instead of just putting 'recycling' into the boxes, they'll just throw any old rubbish in.  And if the rubbish doesn't fit in the boxes then they'll just leave it on the ground??!!  Just who do they think removes all of this c***?

There are only about four of us permanent ressies who live here in the summer; one lady is disabled, one works every hour under the sun; so that leaves myself and one other to sort everything out.  Myself and 'one other' had a discussion about this a couple of days ago.  She'd sorted everything out a couple of weeks ago so I said I'd do it this week.

.....................And then I said I was going to hide all the old recycling boxes so holiday makers will have to dispose of their own recycling at the recycling points that are mentioned in their property information folders.  But I know that they won't - they'll just leave all the recycling in the property for the cleaner to get rid off??!!

So I sorted through all of the rubbish, (and pretty gross it was too!).  And I eventually ended up with two recycling boxes - one full of glass bottles and one full of plastic bottles.  And I threw away at least four bags containing babies nappies, and I threw away at least six cartons of fruit juice that were inside plastic bags, and I threw away cream cracker remains and crisp remains and a load of raw meat stuff and vegetable remains.  And then I had to sort the plastic bottles & glass bottles into two separate recycling bins.

...................And now I'm feeling really fed up.  Which is why I'm ranting.

I'm not annoyed with the property owners.  They have very detailed information left in their properties about what should happen with recycling.  

However, I am seriously annoyed with holiday makers who either read the information and chose to ignore it or just don't bother reading it at all.

Look at the photos above.  Just who do they think is going to dispose of all this?

......................Oh, I forgot - they're on holiday - the fairies will do it!!!

And what's that saying?????.................... 'You're never more than 6ft away from a rat in the UK???'

It would serve these 'rubbish spreading holiday makers' right if they came back to their property one night and found a family of rats feasting on what they'd casually discarded into the recycling boxes.

..............But if they did................. they'd be contacting the letting agents pretty quickly to demand some compensation because the place was over run with rats??!!

Anyway, the recycling boxes have now been emptied and I've hidden them all in a corner of the communal courtyard. 

Holiday makers sort out your own rubbish......................

......................And if my hidden recycling boxes find their way back into the public domain......................... I'll probably have another rant. Lol!