OK, my neighbor won't recycle. What to do?

[AprilRazz]

People like this are the reason that DH is glad he no longer lives in CT.

Of course he is also that kind of yankee that embraces life in the South rather than trying to change it.

[true_blood]

From the link above;
It is exasperating to me, as a progressive in a progressive community, to see this happening. It just is...

Maybe you should mind your own ****in' business you ****in' commie scum!
Maybe pick up a hobby so you're not spying on your neighbors all the time?!?

[JohnnyReb]

From the link above;
It is exasperating to me, as a progressive in a progressive community, to see this happening. It just is...

Maybe you should mind your own ****in' business you ****in' commie scum!
Maybe pick up a hobby so you're not spying on your neighbors all the time?!?

Spying on your neighbors is your hobby when you live in a communist society. ...and it's the only one you can afford.

[NHSparky]

I see it here all the time.  The city charges like eight bucks for a TV.  Guess where they end up?  Abandoned lots.  Amazing.

Or you just get stabbed by the illegal dumpers when you try to confront them for dumping their crap in front of  your property, like the gent in Berwick a few weeks back.

[delilahmused]

Someone has a really bad case of Yale envy. Only in progressive CT would they treat recycling like a contact sport.

Cindie

[jukin]

More proof that the DUchebags would have the local Gestapo or NVDK phone numbers committed to memory.

[debk]

I don't know about other places, but our garbage company handles the recycling, and we have to pay a fee that is  included on our water bill.  Why it isn't part of the fee for the garbage company, I have no idea.

Our garbage company will take large items twice a year, but  pickup has to be arranged ahead of time, but there isn't no additional charge.  There is also a place that will take old TV's and other electronics free of charge, but you have to take the stuff to them.  TV's and other things can be left  under an awning on the side of their building.

You're lucky they will pick up twice a year.

Inside the city limits, here, large items can be put out once a month and leaves and debris can be put along the curb line and it will be picked up.

In the county...there is no large item pickup, and they will only pick up leaves or very small brush if in trash bags.

The dump we go to only takes trash. To go to the actual county dump, you have to pay to dump stuff. I don't know how they determine cost, but it doesn't seem to be consistent, and they also base it on your license plates....it's more if it's an out of county plate. The next county over, they let their countians dump for free....if they have the county plate. Anyone else has to pay.

[AllosaursRus]

Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!

These people would reeeeeeeaaaaalllllyyy hate to live next to me! I still burn all our paper garbage in a 55 gallon drum! And guess what DUmmie? Every once in a while some plastic gets in there too!!!!!

Oh, and ask "Toots" how far that "put my foot down" BS would influence me! She takes all the aluminum cans into recycling. Me if they annoy me, I toss 'em in with the rest of the trash!

I'd love to live next door to this trash Nazi! I'd walk around doin' my yard work with my trusty shoulder holster on! Wonder how brave her and her alderman would be then? Heh, I'd even put my grass clippins into the trash! Bet she'd really pop a cork over that!

Hahahahahahahaha!!!

ETA:

Oh, and we get a burn permit every spring to burn leaves and brush from our selective logging! Bet that would put her panties in a twist!

[debk]

Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!

These people would reeeeeeeaaaaalllllyyy hate to live next to me! I still burn all our paper garbage in a 55 gallon drum! And guess what DUmmie? Every once in a while some plastic gets in there too!!!!!

Oh, and ask "Toots" how far that "put my foot down" BS would influence me! She takes all the aluminum cans into recycling. Me if they annoy me, I toss 'em in with the rest of the trash!

I'd love to live next door to this trash Nazi! I'd walk around doin' my yard work with my trusty shoulder holster on! Wonder how brave her and her alderman would be then? Heh, I'd even put my grass clippins into the trash! Bet she'd really pop a cork over that!

Hahahahahahahaha!!!

I don't know how aldermen work, but we have county commissioners. I can't imagine calling ours up and asking him to go "talk" to someone about their recycling habits.

I know exactly what M would say, if he showed up at our door to discuss it too.....

[DumbAss Tanker]

More proof that the DUchebags would have the local Gestapo or NKVD phone numbers committed to memory.

No shit.  She'd fit right in as block captain in 1943 Germany.

They love to blather about 'The Authoritarian Personality' and how it characterizes the Right, but they seem to have a whole lot more people of this type than our side does.

[debk]

No shit.  She'd fit right in as block captain in 1943 Germany.

They love to blather about 'The Authoritarian Personality' and how it characterizes the Right, but they seem to have a whole lot more people of this type than our side does.

They do seem to be much more consumed with what others are doing, how they are doing it, and want to tell them how they should be doing it.

I hadn't really noticed it, until you mentioned it.

They either want to be The Saintly Caretakers....or The Demanding Recipiant of Forever Care.

[true_blood]

Spying on your neighbors is your hobby when you live in a communist society. ...and it's the only one you can afford.

HA HA!!

[Karin]

I lived in CT for ten years.  We had a culture shock, coming from the relatively free-wheeling Northern New York.  There were 2 bitches in the neighborhood just like NJCher.  They were on the board of the HOA.  You can imagine.  Been ensconsed there for years.  

One summer I noticed that there were no flowers in the planters on the beach.  It was the first week of June, and so it was time.  I love that sort of thing, so I kind of took upon myself to go purchase flowers and plant them.  It was an all-day project.  

The next morning I come down to the beach, and they've been ripped out.  It wasn't quite was Chrissy and Marin had planned, even though they weren't getting the job done.  

My discussions with the other neighbors over this little incident were the first seeds that planted their ouster from the board, and the installation of reasonable, decent, fun-loving and very friendly people.  As the election ballots were counted and the results announced, the two bitches burst into tears and fled the room.  Sweet, sweet nazi tears.

[AllosaursRus]

I lived in CT for ten years.  We had a culture shock, coming from the relatively free-wheeling Northern New York.  There were 2 bitches in the neighborhood just like NJCher.  They were on the board of the HOA.  You can imagine.  Been ensconsed there for years. 

One summer I noticed that there were no flowers in the planters on the beach.  It was the first week of June, and so it was time.  I love that sort of thing, so I kind of took upon myself to go purchase flowers and plant them.  It was an all-day project. 

The next morning I come down to the beach, and they've been ripped out.  It wasn't quite was Chrissy and Marin had planned, even though they weren't getting the job done. 

My discussions with the other neighbors over this little incident were the first seeds that planted their ouster from the board, and the installation of reasonable, decent, fun-loving and very friendly people.  As the election ballots were counted and the results announced, the two bitches burst into tears and fled the room.  Sweet, sweet nazi tears.

FANFRIKKINTASTIC! Doncha just luv it when a Nazi gets the boot!

That story made my day!

[formerlurker]

Poor bouncy -- so many missed opportunities.   The neighbor's car with a flat isn't covered with Bush/Cheney, Palin 2012 stickers; no mention of the word "freeper" at all; no Christian references; and what? no guns.   A perfect excuse for why she is afraid to approach the facist neocon neighbors -- they have lots and lots of guns.

She should be banned for the lame attempt at attention whoring alone.

[ColonialMarine0431]

They use to have people like this in Nazi Germany. They were called The Cell or Block Leader.

Dumbass cu*t. Hey Mrs. Kravitz, MYOFB.

[Tucker]

You would think that if this neighborhood was as diverse as she says it is, there would be at least one of her neighbors on DU and that person would back up her story.

Every fruitcake, nutbag, butt plugging, carpet munching, lying moonbat in the world is a member of skins island.

[Randy]

OMG! They won't recycle!!111!!!111! There's only one solution.

Its time for a little bit of Conn. Manson style Helter Skelter.

[JohnnyReb]

Recycling dept., "Hello, neighborhood recycling department. How can we help you?" 

CTyankee's neighbor, "Uh....uh....do you pick up bad meat or should I just throw it in with the ...uh...uh...kitchen waste?"

Recycling dept., "Well, I don't know. How much spoiled meat do you have?"

CTyankee's neighbor, "Well, I don't know yet....HEY SARAH. HOW MUCH DOES THAT BITCH UP THE STREET WIEGH?.....uh....I'm gonna have around 250 pounds."

Recycling dept., "Sir. Is this a dead animal we're talking about? Because if it is and it's on the street you need to call the Department of Transportation?"

CTyankee's neighbor, "OH she's in the street alright....she's always in the street...peeking in windows....looking in trashcans....checking driveways."

Recycling dept., "Sir is this a person we're talking about?"
 
CTyankee's neighbor, "Well...uh...yeah...if you want to call a hairy ape that walks upright a person...then I guess she's a person."

Recycling dept., "Sir, if there is a dead person on your street then you need to call the police right away."

CTyankee's neighbor, "why?"

Recycling dept., "Because there has been a murder on your street."

CTyankee's neighbor, "Well not yet there ain't."

Recycling dept., "Let me get this straight. You want us to pick up some spoiled meat....and then you say there's a dead person in the street...but now she isn't dead yet. Is that correct?"
 
CTyankee's neighbor, "Yep."

Recycling dept., "Sir, you do realize that you've just suggested that you are about to committ murder don't you?"

CTyankee's neighbor, "Yep."

Recycling dept., "Sir you do realize I have now got to call the police don't you?"

CTyankee's neighbor, "Yep."

Recycling dept., "Sir would you please give me your address are at least the name of the person you are about to murder?"

CTyankee's neighbor, "The aggravating bitches name is CTyankee."

Recycling dept., "Is this the woman we here at the department of sanitation know as the  "TRASH NAZI"?"

CTyankee's neighbor, "Yep. That would be her."

Recycling dept., "Sir. Please hang up the phone and just get-R-done. Place the ...uh ...spoiled meat on the curb and I will personally come bye after work and pick up the ...uh....spoiled meat....and sir....thank you for calling and please remember to always shoot, shovel call us and shut up."

[Chris_]

  Bravo!

[AllosaursRus]

Recycling dept., "Hello, neighborhood recycling department. How can we help you?" 

CTyankee's neighbor, "Uh....uh....do you pick up bad meat or should I just throw it in with the ...uh...uh...kitchen waste?"

Recycling dept., "Well, I don't know. How much spoiled meat do you have?"

CTyankee's neighbor, "Well, I don't know yet....HEY SARAH. HOW MUCH DOES THAT BITCH UP THE STREET WIEGH?.....uh....I'm gonna have around 250 pounds."

Recycling dept., "Sir. Is this a dead animal we're talking about? Because if it is and it's on the street you need to call the Department of Transportation?"

CTyankee's neighbor, "OH she's in the street alright....she's always in the street...peeking in windows....looking in trashcans....checking driveways."

Recycling dept., "Sir is this a person we're talking about?"
 
CTyankee's neighbor, "Well...uh...yeah...if you want to call a hairy ape that walks upright a person...then I guess she's a person."

Recycling dept., "Sir, if there is a dead person on your street then you need to call the police right away."

CTyankee's neighbor, "why?"

Recycling dept., "Because there has been a murder on your street."

CTyankee's neighbor, "Well not yet there ain't."

Recycling dept., "Let me get this straight. You want us to pick up some spoiled meat....and then you say there's a dead person in the street...but now she isn't dead yet. Is that correct?"
 
CTyankee's neighbor, "Yep."

Recycling dept., "Sir, you do realize that you've just suggested that you are about to committ murder don't you?"

CTyankee's neighbor, "Yep."

Recycling dept., "Sir you do realize I have now got to call the police don't you?"

CTyankee's neighbor, "Yep."

Recycling dept., "Sir would you please give me your address are at least the name of the person you are about to murder?"

CTyankee's neighbor, "The aggravating bitches name is CTyankee."

Recycling dept., "Is this the woman we here at the department of sanitation know as the  "TRASH NAZI"?"

CTyankee's neighbor, "Yep. That would be her."

Recycling dept., "Sir. Please hang up the phone and just get-R-done. Place the ...uh ...spoiled meat on the curb and I will personally come bye after work and pick up the ...uh....spoiled meat....and sir....thank you for calling and please remember to always shoot, shovel call us and shut up."

Git 'R Done!!!!!!

Now that there is funny! I don't care who ya are!

[debk]

Git 'R Done!!!!!!

Now that there is funny! I don't care who ya are!

 

[miskie]

Now thats funny 

[diesel driver]

CTyankee  (1000+ posts)      Sun Aug-22-10 09:14 PM
Original message
OK, my neighbor won't recycle. What to do?
 They've not recycled since they moved in over a year ago. Now we have simpler, "single stream" recycling, easier than ever, and they still don't. We even got new containers from the city with clear instructions. There's a city ordinance that requires recycling but they don't comply.

What to do? Everybody on our street recycles. Our entire neighborhood is rated the best in New Haven for recycling. Yet they do not.

We are all at wits end with them. We can't understand. They are perfectly nice to talk to. No problem there. But we don't know how to handle this problem.

Maybe we are being unreasonable, but we like the fact that we all do our duty and recycle stuff. We are happy with the new program because we don't have to separate the stuff the way we used to. It all goes into one bin. AND our garbage is reduced!

Any suggestions?

How much you want to bet that ALL their freaking recycling AND garbage go in the same hole in the ground at the end of the day?   

DUmbasses!

[JohnnyReb]

How much you want to bet that ALL their freaking recycling AND garbage go in the same hole in the ground at the end of the day?   

DUmbasses!

That was a fact here when they first started recycling. Now newspaper, cardboard and metal are sold and sometimes the plastic. The rest goes to the tranfer station, dumped in one trailer and sent to the landfill.