I don’t know about the OP’s situation, but the new garbage and recycling bins delivered here a few years ago are HUGE, and few homes have space in the garage for them. I used to keep my old bins in the garage but it’s impossible with these behemoths!
That’s interesting - where I live, I’m required to keep the bins on my property except for trash day but that could be in front of my house, in an alley/driveway, in the backyard. Anywhere except the public sidewalk or street.
This. I’ve now rented maybe a dozen AirBnBs. I have never, not once, seen or spoken to the property owner or their agent. It’s all texts & emails. The actual property owner might be in a different country for all I know.
The general public gives zero shits about anything not belonging to them. When it’s time to leave, most folks do the easiest thing that they think won’t result in them being charged a cleaning fee. If that’s filling a nearby recycling bin with garbage, that’s exactly what they will do; zero skin off their nose. G’Bye!
I’ve rented apartments, through airb&b and other services. They always come with written instructions. Don’t track sand into the house. Here’s how to use the laundry machines. I left you one package of laundry soap in [location] and you can buy more at [nearby convenience store]. Those instructions can easily include where to put the garbage. That the guests are taking their garbage out of the unit at all suggests there are instructions of what to do with them.
Some guests won’t care, and will use the closest bin. Some probably leave the garbage in the kitchen trash can. But if the instructions are clear, most guests will follow them, if only because they’ll be afraid there might be consequences if they don’t.
Or, he’s using free labour to move his guests garbage to the curb every garbage day.
This guy is running a business in which he knows his guests are going to produce at least some garbage, and so he should be proactively providing them bins in the place most convenient to those guests. He’s the one who chose to use the back door for the AirBnB, so it’s on him to provide bins close to that spot, and to move them every garbage day. That’s one of the costs of doing business, but so far, he’s successfully off-loaded that job, and for free, no less!
You might want to keep this in the back of your mind:
One Xmas years ago, the neighbor across the street, who was not friendly at all, put his empty cartons in our trash/recycs (including one for a brand new large screen TV). I didn’t really care until Dad — The Voice of Doom — said thieves drive around looking for tossed cartons from big ticket items figuring to rob you. Fortunately, trash came that day.
I wouldn’t care much, either, until it got to the point where the bin was full and I couldn’t put my own recycling in it. If that happens rarely, I’d be inclined to then take my recycling to the neighbor’s bin and put it in there. If he complains about my stuff in his bin, I’d tell him it’s only because his guests have already filled mine.
Where / when I’ve lived with curbside recycling, you’ll get a nasty note followed by a citation for routinely having non-recyclables in your recycling bin(s).
Most Americans (and Canadains?) consider pizza boxes to be recyclable. Most recycling systems do not; the inevitably greasified cardboard is a non-starter.
I’d be very unhappy needing to curate the stuff the neighbor’s customers are putting in my bins to avoid me getting a citation over their behavior.
Oh, sure, if the b&b guests are putting the wrong stuff in the OP’s bin, and that will attract unwanted attention from the local constabulary, then different measures are called for. But if it’s just that the bins are occasionally filled, that’s a pretty minor inconvenience.
You didn’t get the memo? Paper mills have finally cracked the age-old greasy pizza box conundrum. I eat pizza at home now just to experience the once forbidden thrill of discarding the boxes into the blue bin.
Depends on how they’ve solved the problem - I no longer throw pizza boxes in the regular trash , now they go into the compost bin , but not the paper recycling bin. Which made me wonder why the trash now has to be in a bin with a lid if it no longer contains food (before, we could put it out in trash bags). Eventually, I realized it’s because food packaging might attract animals.
Not every area accepts them.
And that’s another problem with out of towners using somebody else’s trash bins: the rules for what’s acceptable and in which bin vary a lot, and people who don’t live there are less likely to know the right ones for that particular area.
Yes, around here, pizza boxes are NOT recyclable. Doesn’t stop some people from throwing them in there anyway. “not my problem.”
I’d just frisbee the pizza boxes back to the BnB door. “It was like that when I got here!”
'Zactly.
Our local recycling system where I live now says “Greaseless clean pizza boxes are recyclable.” With the unstated opposite case that greasy ones are not recyclable.
My apartment neighbors often eat delivered or takeout pizza. I have never seen a greaseless used pizza box. Although I often see greasy ones in our pile of cardboard to go out for recycling.
I think ours defaults to “pizza box=bad!” Like Monsters Inc treated human items. They don’t care if it was never used, it gets moved to the landfill pile.
I have - some places put a sheet of a type of wax paper on the bottom.It’s supposed to keep cheese from sicking to the box and coming off the pizza.
I would move the bins so the guests don’t have access to them or else put locks on them with a note saying where the BnB bins are. I wouldn’t trust randos to not treat the recycling bins as normal trashcans. Even the people who aren’t assholes won’t necessarily know that it’s a recycling bin rather than a trash can. If someone comes from a place which doesn’t have city recycling, they may be unfamiliar with bins that have certain uses and think it’s a regular trash can. Even if they have recycling bins back home, their city may allow different materials that your city. Some cities allow used pizza boxes, some don’t. If guests have access to the bin, someone is going to put improper materials or trash in the recycling bin one day and you’re going to be the one who has to deal with it.
Of course the greasy cheesy waxed paper will still be inside that pizza box when it goes into the recycling bin.
People are why we can’t have nice things.
Don’t do that. The ABNB guests were legitimately trying to clean up & depending upon layout could rightfully assume OPs cans were where they were to place trash. Now you’re subjecting them to extra penalty fees at the same time making your own neighborhood look shitty.
OP, if you’re going to put a note on your cans, put a BIG not on your cans; most people aren’t going to read a little post-it on a trashcan, or even better, tape a BIG note to his door about don’t throw anything in the neighbor’s (your) bins but to please carry it around front.
Yes BIG note and staple your business card to any note. You are an attorney, right?