…or I would lose my mind at people’s utter stupidity/laziness. Outside my apartment building there are three large recycling bins. On the front of each of these are big, easy-to-read-and-understand signs:
Bin #1: “Glass bottles and plastic containers. Clean and dry. For the safety of our recycling personnel, please, no ceramic or mirrors. No plastic bags.”
Bin #2: “Boxboard, writing paper, plastic grocery bags. Please, no corrugated cardboard.”
Bin #3: “Corrugated Cardboard. Please flatten before inserting.”
All signs are accompanied by pictures of what kinds of items you can put in each bin, just in case the instructions were not clear. This is not a difficult concept to grasp.
However, we seem to have a number of lazy fuckers in the building. Time and again I see:
-Bottles half full of who knows what gunk that reeks and attracts hornets and bees, ceramic cups, and plastic bags in Bin #1.
-Corrugated cardboard in Bin #2.
-Gigantic, unflattened boxes crammed in the bottom of Bin #3. Because of this, the bin is almost always overflowing, and I can’t put my own stuff in.
I can’t figure out if the people who do this are lazy, stupid, just plain don’t care, or all three. It wouldn’t be pissing me off if their negligence wasn’t preventing me from putting my own things in there.