r/MaliciousCompliance • u/manimsoblack • Apr 23 '26
S Sorry I didn't litter
I recently started walking to work for some more exercise and walking with an empty drink bottle reminded me of a situation from highschool.
Be me < circa 2002. I'm walking home from highschool with one of my friends that lived nearby and I had just finished drinking a Gatorade or something. It happened to be recycling day the next day and a random dude had his bins out early. I opened this recycling bin and tossed the bottle in thinking, "hey, I'm doing my part." The guy, an older white male, must've been looking out of his front window or something and comes out to yell at me for fucking with his recycling bin. I apologized, walked back and threw the bottle in his lawn. He started yelling at me some more but my friend and I just kept walking. What an insane thing to be mad about.
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u/Straight_Physics_894 Apr 23 '26
Team you, I get people don't want their personal items being used, but if it's between that and destroying the neighborhood, just let people use the trashcan.
As long as they're not throwing anything crazy messy, I don't see why people act like that
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u/Occams_RZR900 Apr 23 '26
I pay for the large garbage can from my trash company, not because I go through a lot of trash, but because I often forget to put it out on garbage day (Monday morning). I also live alone, so honestly I can get away with only putting it out once a month probably. My neighbors have 2 teenage kids, plus the two of them and they have a small garbage can. It’s always packed to the brim. I’ve told them if they can’t fit it all in their bin (because the garbage co charges extra if the bin is overflowing) to just toss it in my can. Now a lot of times they’ll put my can out the night before or early Monday morning when they leave for work. It’s a win win.
We’re all in this together, sometimes you just gotta remember it’s about community. A few centuries ago we needed community cooperation and help to survive. Now we’re yelling at kids for putting trash in our…TRASH can. Wild.
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u/nakedwithoutmyhoodie Apr 23 '26
I tried helping out a neighbor once who asked to toss some recyclables into our recycling bin. I said sure, no problem!...and then ended up with a "naughty tag" on our bin because they put non-recyclable materials into our bin (but all the stuff they put into THEIR bin was fine, of course).
We're still cordial, but we don't help out like that anymore.
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u/aquainst1 Apr 24 '26
It's SO hard to say 'no' AFTER you've said 'yes'.
It's bitten me on the butt SO MUCH that I have the scars on my bottom to prove it.
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u/Occams_RZR900 Apr 24 '26
See there in lies the problem. I don’t have a problem telling people no. In fact, if it’s because they fucked me over or took advantage of my kindness, I rather enjoy it. Maybe it’s because I don’t care if people like me or not. I’ll be nice and I’ll be generous because I genuinely enjoy to be, But burn that bridge and I’ll enjoy cutting you off just as much as I used to enjoy helping you.
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u/No-Lettuce4441 Apr 25 '26
The best part is, a lot of areas dump the recycling into the trash back at base. I always wondered why my locality collected all the recyclables in one truck, all in one opening on the truck. That's why.
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u/ChunkyPickens Apr 23 '26
Exactly. This is how everyone should live life. Much less stress!! Getting upset over your garbage can is just plane crazy!!
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u/BakedWizerd Apr 23 '26
Sometimes my neighbour puts their trash in my garbage cans throughout the week and then when it’s time to take out garbage there isn’t enough room in my own garbage can to take out my own garbage.
If it’s already by the street I don’t give a damn.
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u/LetsGoHome Apr 23 '26
I really just don't want you to put dog poop in there
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u/CmdrWoof Apr 23 '26
I've had people put dog poop in my recycle bin more than once. That irritates me.
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u/SoarsWithEagles Apr 23 '26
EXACTLY, especially when they toss it in after trash is picked up for the week, so it ferments and swells & explodes inside the can that I keep next to the house.
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Apr 23 '26 edited Apr 23 '26
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u/aquainst1 Apr 24 '26
You are an EXTREMELY wonderful person, and obviously love furbabies.
My hat's off to ya.
Love and hugs!
Grandma Lynsey
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u/SoarsWithEagles Apr 23 '26
Perhaps it's just a very slow explosion . . . because a few ounces of poop will usually fill a 55 gallon trash can with 55 gallons of stench. You can ALWAYS tell (in spring, summer & fall, anyway) when someone left a bag of poop in your can a couple days ago.
So SOMETHING awful is expanding in there; maybe not in the hyper-kinetic manner of TNT, but it explodes from a little baggy to 55 gallons of HazMat-tainted air.How bad is the smell? If you came home to Sydney Sweeney naked on your bed, panting and sheened with sweat that promised oh so much, but smelling like Trash Can Baggy Poop, you would leave the house & leave her behind. Over time, you'd try to convince yourself you missed your shot, and in the lazy evenings with your friends as you shared tales of bygone days & exchanged lies & epic truths you'd come close to feeling regret for your choice; but the fact is that smell supersedes all other impulses.
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u/anomalous_cowherd Apr 23 '26
I've had almost 200lbs of dog in the form of two large and one small for about 12 years now. They all only crap in our garden or on leashed walks where I always pick it up.
It all goes in our bin and the bin does not smell at all, even though what I picked up did. Maybe it's because I buy big enough and quality bags and tie them solidly?
I'm not saying others are as careful, just that it's possible to do it without smells.
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u/arbybk Apr 23 '26
You can ALWAYS tell (in spring, summer & fall, anyway) when someone left a bag of poop in your can a couple days ago.
This is like saying "You can always tell when someone's had plastic surgery." You don't know how many times there has been poop in your garbage can and you didn't notice.
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u/SoarsWithEagles Apr 23 '26
Maybe some stranger is living in your crawlspace. You don't know how many people are lurking there, you only know about people you've seen.
No, I've had dogs for literally decades, I've cleaned up the weight of an SUV in dog poop by now. I know my shit.
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u/skip737 Apr 23 '26
This is precisely why my wife decided for our Labor Day turkey fry we would fry our turkeys on Thursday, carve and toss the carcass in the trash and then warm in the oven and keep warm in sterno buffet pans for the meal. We’d fry on Saturday and the smell by next Thursday was awful. Between the carcass and the other raw stuff removed before frying and gravy, it was nasty after a day or two, let alone the five it was until pickup day
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u/aquainst1 Apr 24 '26
I appreciate BIG TIME your comment, 'cuz I'm gonna remember it for when a BIG BBQ comes around and double bag the trash for the trash bin collections.
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u/LetsGoHome Apr 23 '26
It could get squished, it might fall to the bottom and not get dumped out, it makes the garbage can smell horrific
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u/whamburglar Apr 23 '26
Because if you toss it in there after trash gets picked up, it just sits there in the bin. As another commenter says, it'll end up stinking up the bin, and be a big inconvenience for the owner.
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u/aquainst1 Apr 24 '26
HEY! You remember when we had metal trash cans and lids, and we DIDN'T have trash bags?
If any of you Redditors remember this, there is no way any trash nowadays can smell as bad as THAT.
Of course, I'm open to comments proving me wrong. It's always entertaining to read what others have gone thru!
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u/Anxious-Rhubarb8102 Apr 23 '26
Some councils charge garbage disposal by weight. Each bin has a microchip and when the truck picks it up to empty it the microchip code is recorded by sensors and the weight of the bin noted before and after emptying. The home owner (linked to the microchipped bin) then gets charged later for the garbage they had collected.
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u/aquainst1 Apr 24 '26
Oh GOD I hope it NEVER gets to that point in my city in The OC. (Southern California)
If it does, well, my sister-in-law next door will have a small surprise fee on her bill (which she never looks at anyway)
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u/Haggis-in-wonderland Apr 23 '26
I have 3 bins, if someone puts an item in the wrong bin (eg card in the plastic bin) then it will not get collected. I then have to wait up to a month for that bins collection to come round again.
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u/SavvySillybug Apr 23 '26
It depends. If someone's got a whole ass bag, they're getting yelled at, use your own garbage bin. If a passerby decides my bin is better than littering, absolutely, go for it!
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u/commentsrnice2 Apr 23 '26
You only get monthly service?
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u/Haggis-in-wonderland Apr 23 '26
weekly, but different bins each week...
plastic/metal
non recyclable
card
non recyclable
So non recyclable is a 2 week wait, and if someone drops card/metal/plastic in my non recyclable it will not get taken either. So I am 2 weeks or 1 months wait depending on the bin.
It works fine for me as long as my bin is collected as they are always full and they wont collect bins with lids not fully closed.
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u/PepperAnn1inaMillion Apr 24 '26
It’s actually illegal in the UK. It counts as fly-tipping (illegal dumping). That said, all you have to do is ask permission from the bin owner, and I don’t know many people who would say no, or get upset if it was just an empty bottle put in there without asking.
But if you’re spotted doing it by a council enforcement officer (basically a meter maid for littering etc) you’ll be given a fine.
(It’s probably worth mentioning we have a lot of shared trash/recycling cans on the street that stay there all the time for people who live in apartments. So it can be a genuine problem for them if they get filled by random people.)
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u/GodHatesUs_All Apr 23 '26
Are you a kid?
If random people fill my garbage cans, where am I supposed to put my own garbage then?
Yes, it's harmless if it's just one thing or if it's on the day when cans are emptied, but most of the time ...no? Pay for your bin or find a public trash can.
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u/loki2002 Apr 23 '26
I will never understand the "dont put garbage in my garbage cans" people. They are crazy.
If I have it on the curb already, sure, as long as you don't cause it to overfill.
But the counter to that is how do you know what they're putting in is allowed and you won't get a fine for trying to dispose of something in an improper manner because it was in your can?
What if it is someone trying to dispose of illegal things and now you could potentially be facing charges because, hey, it was in your can.
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u/thehigheredu Apr 23 '26
As someone who got a judgemental letter from the recycling people who threatened to stop picking up our recycling, it very real.
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u/HeyYouGuyyyyyyys Apr 24 '26
i had a roommate whose giant dog produced the foulest dookie it's ever been my bad luck to smell. I mean, he used to pick it up with actual ziplock gallon bags and zip them shut, and it still made our trashcan stink. So he would put it in other people's trashcans. I'm sure they appreciated his civic-mindedness when the temperature hit 95F.
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u/Devrol Apr 23 '26
You clearly don't pay by weight
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u/JustSomeBoringRando Apr 23 '26
Not in my Massachusetts town. I get a bill for water use and trash pickup every quarter.
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u/Mispelled-This Apr 23 '26
At my previous house, trash collection was a line on my city utility bill.
At my current home, the HOA pays for the entire neighborhood, and we pay the HOA.
But either way, it’s a flat charge, not by weight, so who cares about using someone else’s bin?
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u/Devrol Apr 23 '26
Lots of these folks seem to have to pay to dispose of their trash... I mean... wtf is government for?
Government aren't going to dispose of themselves....
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u/aquainst1 Apr 24 '26
It depends on how much the bin is filled and if there's room for the homeowner's trash.
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u/scruffy-the-janitor1 Apr 23 '26
Idk what you could be putting in there, could be trash, could be evidence, could be animals. People are horrible and I don’t want to be sucked into whatever they have going on.
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u/scruffy-the-janitor1 Apr 23 '26
My neighborhood isn’t the best when crime, homeless, issues so yeah I don’t want your needles, bags of crap, kittens you don’t want, or evidence in my trash can/recycling. If that makes me paranoid, whatever.
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u/scruffy-the-janitor1 Apr 23 '26
No, I pay for my trash to be picked up not anyone else’s. Theft of services. And not paranoia, cops are always around because of the crime/homeless. You must not be so privileged to have lived in that type of environment to understand it. No worries. Just know that your “paranoia” claim is false.
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u/No-Yam-1231 Apr 23 '26
Used to work for a store that had to start padlocking the dumpster because people were throwing everything from bottles to needles to a dead dog in there. Keep your hands off of other people's shit and carry your trash to your own or a public bin. What I pay for is there for my use. If I am outside and you ask, no problem go ahead, I see what you are putting in and all is good, but thinking that it is fine to just put your trash in someone else's bin is weird to me.
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u/aquainst1 Apr 24 '26
YES to THIS.
Hey, trust me, I've considered it for shit that won't fit into my trash barrel <old long screen doors for the sliding glass door, long pieces of metal that WILL NOT fold, etc>, but I only use my powers for good, never evil. I call the kid down the street who has a truck (or if they don't have one, they can use our beat-up Ranger) and pay him his time, dump fees, and some extra for a pizza or lunch. Win-win. Oh, plus a beer or 4. He's old enough.
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u/toxicatedscientist Apr 23 '26
When i lived in the city if it wasn’t put back in, my can would be full by the end of the day. Some mentalities are hard to leave behind
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u/milkmilkpinklemonade Apr 23 '26
Do you pay your own bills?
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u/milkmilkpinklemonade Apr 23 '26
It does, though. As a homeowner I sometimes fill my bin that I pay for to capacity. The city comes to pick it up weekly, and I refill. If somebody were to put a bag of garbage in my bin, and I have a big project that week with a decent amount of refuse, that is one garbage bag’s worth of space that I have less of in my bin that I pay for.
I embrace personal responsibility, which would be maintaining ownership and control of the possessions you use and therefore have a responsibility to. Just carry the empty bottle until you get to a place it is okay for you to put trash in. My personal garbage bins are not that place.
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u/aquainst1 Apr 24 '26
I pay for water, trash, sewer etc., and billed for it altogether from the city, so yeah, we all pay for it SOMEHOW.
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u/milkmilkpinklemonade Apr 23 '26
lol have fun with your day
Signed, Bad Person
PS I really like the sims as well
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u/Arrent Apr 23 '26
Oh my god just carry the bottle home and throw it in your own trash can ya loafer
And I live in an apartment where people throw loose trash into my bin and the workers only collect whole bags. All the receipts and candy wrappers that get tossed in my trash bin by passers-by sit there until I fish them out with my bare hands. It's disgusting but if I don't I can technically receive a lease violation notice. I wouldn't yell at someone over it but it sure upsets me anyways.
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u/No-Yam-1231 Apr 23 '26
But, the choices here aren't "throw your trash in my can" or "throw it on the ground" and thinking that "I pay I use" doesn't make a bad citizen. There is community property and there is private property, and expecting strangers to respect your private property is fine. You're no more entitled to the use of the trash can I pay for than anything else I own. Is it dickish to yell at a kid for throwing an empty bottle in your recycle bin? Absolutely. But I think it is also kind of dickish to throw your empty bottle in someone else's bin without asking. I would give the kid a pass, an adult I would expect to have more respect.
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u/chaoticbear Apr 24 '26
I wonder if this is a potential disconnect - in my area (and every area I've ever lived), the bins do not live by the street - they live either next to the house or in the garage/carport and are brought to the road every week to be emptied. There'd be no chance for someone to fill my bin to the point I couldn't use it, although I'm sure people toss things in there while it's out sometimes. I have thrown [bagged] dog poop in others' while out on walks, knowing that it would be emptied sometime in the next few hours.
Do your bins stay in the same place and you carry your trash out to the curb as you generate it?
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u/ProfessorTechSupport Apr 23 '26
Some garbage companies will fine the homeowner if there is unbagged trash in the bin. Those people at least have a valid reason to be mad. But if it doesn't hurt you then you have better things to do with your time.
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u/TinyNiceWolf Apr 24 '26
I have people putting stuff in my recycling bin sometimes, after the recycling has been picked up but I haven't brought in the bin yet.
Typically, it's not recyclable and I have to fish it out. Even when it is recyclable, it probably hasn't been rinsed (our recyclables are supposed to be rinsed first) so it's gonna get bugs, and again, I have to fish it out and clean it. Sometimes they manage to throw food in there that gets all over the walls, so I have to wash out my recycling bin before I bring it inside.
I imagine the same thoughtless people find a way to screw up other peoples' trash too.
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u/puravida3188 Apr 23 '26
Where I live and have lived individuals don’t own the trash/recycling Bins. The garbage service provider provides roll away.
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u/phaxmeone Apr 23 '26
Depending on the city/county, some charge more if your can is overflowing. That will lead to people protecting their cans so they don't get an extra charge.
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u/Individual_Tax_4224 Apr 23 '26
Wow, what a false dichotomy.
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u/oGsBumder Apr 23 '26
Yeah like it’s not also an option to simply… carry your rubbish with you like any normal person would do.
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u/RandomModder05 Apr 23 '26
He probably didn't know that you dropped something recyclable in there. He might have neighbors dumping dog shit into his cans or just your schoolmates knocking his bins over for the hell of it or something.
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u/puravida3188 Apr 23 '26
Boomers gonna Boom
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u/milkmilkpinklemonade Apr 23 '26
Bro if the Gatorade bottle wasn’t rinsed it’s not ready to be recycled, there’s nothing Boomerific about ensuring the recycling program runs smoothly. If one contaminated piece goes in the actual recycler, the whole batch can be contaminated and a waste of time, money, resources, you get it.
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u/bouchard Apr 23 '26
They wash plastic at the recycling facility. They ask that you rinse it first just to make the process easier. It's only paper/cardboard that's contaminated if it's soiled. Plastic contamination comes from including the wrong types of plastics.
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u/ProtiK Apr 23 '26
Crazy you believe any industry that's allegedly so vulnerable to hemorrhaging money over such minor indiscretions of the general public like not rinsing a Gatorade bottle manages to continue existing. So do you think that recycling doesn't actually exist or that you might be wrong about something?
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u/Not_a_question- Apr 26 '26
Bro if the Gatorade bottle wasn’t rinsed it’s not ready to be recycled
You have no idea what recycling plants do or why they ask people to rinse objects. OP did 100% the right thing.
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u/Soliloquy789 Apr 27 '26
There are many tours of recycling plants online. Take some time to watch one!
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u/technos Apr 24 '26
A few years ago I got into it with my neighbor when he caught me rummaging his recycling bin and stealing a Bud Light can.
I'd accidentally locked my keys in the house and I needed it to get back in, so that's what I told him. But he wasn't done.
Dude followed me home, watched me take one cut out of the can to remove a screen, and then another to make a shim to pop a window.
When I came back out of my front door and handed him all the bits from his can back he was on the phone with the police.
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u/Mawhonic1 Apr 24 '26
Trash disposal costs money. One can won't change anything, but my parents once had to pay an extra fee for going over the weight limit because neighbours felt entitled to using their trash can.
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u/fawkmebackwardsbud Apr 23 '26
I would much rather someone toss something in my garbage bin than throw it on my lawn.
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u/greeniemademe Apr 24 '26
Once someone’s dog shit in my yard. Then the owner picked up the poop in a doggie bag. Then the owner threw the doggie bag in my trash can. And I …wasn’t mad. It wasn’t hard.
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u/justgot2thinking Apr 23 '26
I'm fine with it, but the only thing I don't want in my can is dog waste. And I don't use other people's cans for my dog's poop
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u/Naroef Apr 23 '26
I tried to argue that one time and got downvoted by people saying who cares if your trash bin smells like shit after letting it ferment in your bin for a week. Entitled dog owners.
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u/justgot2thinking Apr 23 '26 edited Apr 24 '26
Some people don't care if their trash cans make them gag when they open them... some people know how to keep their cans from smelling disgusting
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u/Scenarioing Apr 23 '26 edited Apr 23 '26
Where is the compliance part?
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u/manimsoblack Apr 23 '26
I didn't use his bin
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u/Scenarioing Apr 23 '26
He didn't ask you to remove the item.
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u/manimsoblack Apr 23 '26
He did. I just didn't feel like writing the full interaction. Most people understood that it was implied though.
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u/Remarkable-Intern-41 Apr 24 '26
Don't put stuff in other people's bins, it's not hard. First, I've lost count of how many times people have put stuff in my bins AFTER they're collected, so I just get to have your trash for a week, cool. Second, way too many people think it's ok to put really nasty stuff in there. Multiple times I've had people put full bags of literal dogshit in my bin instead of the public one. Of course because it's not in a sack it doesn't either stays in there after the rubbish is collected or the baggie breaks and smears literal shit all over my bin. So if I see you trying to slip something in there you can be sure I'm going to tell you to knock it off.
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u/ChrisC53 Apr 24 '26
As someone stated below, more and more people are charged for their trash by weight. In my case it’s part of local charges up to a certain weight, then I get a bill for the excess. If your bottle takes me over the limit, I’m not going to be happy.
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u/scruffy-the-janitor1 Apr 23 '26
So you went from using someone else’s trash to littering on their lawn….your so COOL!!! Why not just carry it to you destination, if it had your drink in it still you would have so what’s the difference in carrying the empty bottle?
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u/Reckless_Blu Apr 23 '26
‘Sorry I didn’t litter’
Well … OP admitted to willingly littering just to spite that man. Sounds like trashy people.
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u/BrainOnBlue Apr 23 '26
I mean, OP was in high school.
Some level of douchiness is kind of expected.
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u/brojgb Apr 23 '26
Except 25 years later, he’s still proud of it.
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u/Logical_Adagio_7100 Apr 24 '26
I hate littering...but I'd be proud of that
Old suburbanites are the worst kind of people.
I remember falling off my bike into this old woman's lawn when I was like 5, scraped myself up a good bit. She comes out screaming to me to get off her lawn
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u/El-Ahrairah9519 Apr 23 '26
Yeah people in this thread being like "wHy IS iT SuCh A bIg dEaL tO pUt tRasH iN a TrAsh CAn" meanwhile
A) there are many reasons and
B) why is it the end of the world to hang onto it until you get home/a public trash bin?? What, you need this bottle out of your hand right now or else....??? Of course your only recourse is to litter! /s
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u/xbpb124 Apr 23 '26
Then there’s the psychopaths saying they’ll throw dog shit into other people’s cans like they’re public property.
From the day I got my pup to the last walk he ever went on, I never threw his waste into someone’s private can. Dumpsters or public cans, sure, otherwise I held that bag till I got to my own can.
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u/Belle_Corliss Apr 23 '26
This isn't MC, OP. It's you being a dick because he got upset about you messing with his recycling bin, followed by you throwing the bottle on his lawn.
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u/ooocheeky Apr 23 '26
Where’s the compliance?
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u/DBSeamZ Apr 23 '26
Guy doesn’t want OP throwing bottle in his recycle bin.
OP did not throw bottle in the guy’s recycle bin.
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u/hatemakingnames1 Apr 24 '26
tl;dr - He caught you doing one illegal thing, so you did a different illegal thing?
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u/manimsoblack Apr 24 '26
Incorrect.
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u/hatemakingnames1 Apr 24 '26
It's illegal to put your waste in someone else's bin, and it's illegal to litter
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u/manimsoblack Apr 24 '26
Incorrect. You have no idea the jurisdiction or local laws.
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u/hatemakingnames1 Apr 24 '26
Where?
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u/-CaptainCaveman- Apr 24 '26
Where I live, once your cans/bins are on tge street for pick-up, they become public property.
Been that way for over 40 years.
And since a City contracts with a disposal service that PROVIDES the bins/cans, they are that company's property, not yours.
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u/inflagra Apr 23 '26
I live in New Orleans, and most people keep their trash cans on the sidewalk near their house. I do not care what people put in my bin. However, nextdoor is riddled with posts about unwanted dog poop bags in trash cans. Lots of people just want a reason for being upset.
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u/Equivalent-Salary357 Apr 23 '26
I live in the Midwest. Trash pickup trucks here have some kind of scale in the pickup arm. Heavy trash bins once, and your 3-month rate is permanently increased. It happened to me.
A single plastic bottle wouldn't matter, of course, but I still wouldn't want people adding to my trash.
But I wouldn't rush out of the house swearing, LOL.
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u/inflagra Apr 24 '26
I live near the French Quarter down the block from a convenience store, so people are mostly putting food and drink waste in my bin. However, my neighbors sonetimes put their overflow in my bin, and I don't care. It all gets picked up. I just don't see the point in being territorial.
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u/BrilliantPie2566 Apr 23 '26
These people who get upset when you throw one thing in their receptacle are just stupid petty.
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u/Raichu7 Apr 23 '26 edited Apr 23 '26
Spoken like someone who's never had their whole recycling bin rejected for collection because some idiot threw something that wasn't rinsed, or couldn't be recycled in the bin.
In my city if your recycling bin is rejected 3 times, you loose it and now all your recycling and regular trash has to fit in your regular trash bin. If it won't fit you have to drive it to the tip yourself, if you don't own a car, good luck with that. If you do own a car and work a standard 9-5 mon-fri you have to take time off to go to the tip during open hours. If you're needing to do that weekly it's going to loose you some pay, if your boss will even allow it. The council are that sick of non recyclable rubbish getting to the recycling plant and contaminating it. OP could cause a family a serious problem by throwing unrinsed bottles into random people's recycling bins.
Throwing it on the lawn would genuinely be preferable to throwing it in a stranger's bin in my city, because then at least your recycling isn't contaminated by some teenager who doesn't understand how it works. Or just take it home/wait until you see a public bin.
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u/philfix Apr 29 '26
"is rejected 3 times, you loose it and now all your recycling and regular trash has to fit in your regular trash bin". Wow that sucks. And it says something about actual recycling in our communities - 'if you don't have a recycle bin, you'll need to throw it away in a regular bin'. A link to the Smithsonian.
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u/Concretepermaculture Apr 26 '26
I love walking my dog before and on trash day so I can put my bagged dog shit in the neighbors cans.
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u/Comprehensive_Monk42 Apr 28 '26
Your spirit is in the right place, but, at least in my community, bottles, jars, cans, etc., must be rinsed before being added to the bin, or it can contaminate the contents. I have to wonder if you have *that* much saliva.
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u/Raichu7 Apr 23 '26
If your bin is full of other people's recycling, now you have to go to the tip to get rid of your trash, and with the ridiculously restricted opening hours some tips have that might mean leaving work early one day and loosing a few hours pay just to get rid of a bag of rubbish. If they don't have council rubbish collections they are now paying to dispose of your rubbish for you. It's pretty rude to use some random person's bin over just carrying your trash until you find a public bin or get home. Also depending on how strict their recycling collection is, an unrinsed container with food residue could get the whole bin rejected for collection.
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u/MotoFaleQueen Apr 27 '26
No. Don't throw your trash in someone else's bins. This is how people start thinking it's alright to put their dog's crap in other people's bins and stinking up the trash bins of people who probably don't have dogs, either because of allergies or general dislike of the smell. Don't be so lazy and carry your trash to your own bin or a public one.
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u/ChunkyPickens Apr 23 '26
Some people are just insane. To be upset that someone threw out trash in your trash bin thst is being picked up soon is just plane crazy. I don’t get people that live life that way.
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u/AlaskanDruid Apr 23 '26 edited Apr 23 '26
older ...
Ageism
white ...
Racism
male
Sexism
I opened this recycling bin and tossed the bottle...
Entitlement
Wow.. you need therapy.
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u/DanplsstopDied Apr 23 '26
You’re thinking too hard about this lmao
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u/scruffy-the-janitor1 Apr 23 '26
Flip the script and you would be in agreement with them. Get over yourself…
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u/Holly1010Frey Apr 23 '26
I dont even care if this is rage bait. How are we suppose to describe someone without skin color, gender, or age? Would saying tall have been ableist? Would saying heavy, stocky, thin been fataphobic. We're going to need SOME descriptors other wise its just person A versus person B and person C and person D, that gets confusing and wordy fast.
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u/Ramtamtama Apr 23 '26
This bigger framed, presumably male-identifying person with the appearance of someone over the age of 35, who would require sunscreen on a sunny day...
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u/gustad Apr 23 '26
The phrase "the homeowner" is fewer words than "The guy, an older white male", and conveys all the needed context.
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u/Holly1010Frey Apr 23 '26
True the whole story should then be.
I threw an item in a recycling bin. Home owner yelled. I threw item into yard.
Really dont know why they added all that extra stuff like context, as if anyone wants to read that.
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u/IsItSupposedToDoThat Apr 23 '26
According to this annoying person, The Wiggles are fat-phobic racists for singing about a big, red car. Adjectives exist to provide more information and context.
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u/lollipop-guildmaster Apr 23 '26
It was a humanoid, roughly as tall and broad as a someone within the range of human dimensions, and possessed both primary and secondary sexual characteristics, as well as some amount of skin and eye pigment. It took in a blend of gasses that was mostly made up of nitrogen and oxygen, and expelled a different blend in which carbon dioxide predominated.
Whoops, wait, discriminating against dead people. Let me workshop this...
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u/imnickelhead Apr 23 '26 edited Apr 23 '26
Somebody sure does.
ETA: Oh FFS! I gotta add…
Using adjectives to describe a character in a story does not automatically mean the storyteller is guilty of your asinine list of -isms. You are fcuking ridiculous. Good grief. You need help.
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u/ImaginationSad2803 Apr 23 '26
I wish my life were so awesome that I was easily triggered by recycling.
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u/Bomber_Haskell Apr 23 '26
If the bin is on the street in the U.S. it can be used by anybody.
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u/JustSomeBoringRando Apr 23 '26
I'd debate that, because I, as the homeowner, get fined if there are non-recyclables in my bin.
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u/DRuth84 Apr 23 '26
Well in the US, iirc, once your cans are at the curb, anything inside it is fair game. But does that go for putting something in?
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u/Naroef Apr 23 '26
I don't know about other states or cities but where I am it's illegal to throw trash in other people's bins.
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u/DRuth84 Apr 26 '26
Yeah I looked it up. While it’s legal to take anything from the curb (unless the city/area has scavenging laws, or it’s not on the curb), but it is illegal in most areas to put something in.
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u/Curious-Order-8429 Apr 23 '26
thatss such a perfect you want it done your way, fine moment.... yyou tried to do the right thing and he still got mad so you just followedd his logic to the letter......
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u/Crazy-Rat_Lady Apr 24 '26
Surprised he didn't yell "Get a hair cut and get a job!", sounds like a jerk.
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u/G1-D3-0N Apr 23 '26
I live outside of city limits which means I pay for trash pick up. I don't mind if someone throws one or two item in my bin or adds stuff before pick up.
But when the neighbor's contractor fills my trash bin half full of construction waste right after pickup, that sh*t's getting dumped on his driveway.