Recycling
Recycling can be a great way to help the environment by reusing resources. Fortunately, our local council recognises this and has a weekly recycling collection service, along with a recycling tub to hold the material to be recycled. Now, I don't know how many times I've asked my flatmate to crush her things but she fails to do so every time, so when I go to open the cupboard to where the tub is stored I get a river of plastic bottles and cardboard boxes bursting out like a dam breaking.
And not only that, but my flatmate has the tendency to attempt to recycle things that can not be recycled, like wood for instance. The whole term "recycle" implies that the material has already been processed, and you are going to reusing the same material again. For example paper is basically made from wood that has been crushed down to a pulp of fibres, and then pressed together. Paper is recycled to make more paper. Wood therefore can not be recycled into paper, because it is not yet paper. In the same way, it would be like me putting a bucket of sand in the recycle bin. Glass is made from sand, and glass is recycled to make more glass. I can't just throw some sand into a molten vat of glass and expect it to turn into glass.
Today's reason my flatmate pisses me off is that she doesn't crush her recycling material and tries to 'recycle' material which can not be recycled.
posted at 15:51
43 Comments:
haha! i finally found someone who has an equally incorrigible flatmate/bunkmate...
i suffered in silence too but then blasted it all out on my blog.. feels kinda good eh?
I know EXACTLY how you feel, but I think I can one-up you. I had a roommate who, for some reason, put FULL BOTTLES OF BEER in the recycling. They were still sealed and everything. Not only stupid, but wasteful.
My old next-door neighbour used to pick up the dog shit off her patio after her dog had done its business and put it into our house's recycling bin. One day someone else she must've done that to repaid her by doing their business on her front doorstep. I have no idea who it was, but she felt it was one of the other neighbours and told everyone that it was. I was glad to move...
Dumb people people have a hard time understanding rules like 'Smash the Damn Can'. But Dumb inconsiderate people find things like this almost inconceivable.
At least she isn't as dumb as This Lady!
this blog is fantastic! i feel like we would be friends.
I love this blog - makes me glad I am moving...
John Doe - be grateful you don't live here - we have green bins. Recycling discarded food scrapings and used tissues and napkins in a separate bin from the paper and cans... it is very complicated... I doubt your flatmate could handle the pressure!
Okay.. No doubt anymore that you'r a guy *lol*
Bob The Gallery Blogger
OH MY GOD!If your flatmate is not a girl, I'd think you're sharing with a place with my ex-housemate. My ex-housemate who smoked himself retarded would throw the burger wrapper into the recycling bin with part of cheese attaching to it. From his point of view, wrapper is a piece of paper which can be recycled!! Oh god! we only recycle bottles and cans here. I cannot believe there are so many retarded people !!
but my flatmate has the tendency to attempt to recycle things that can not be recycled, like wood for instanceWood can most certainly be recycled. In fact it is ideal for recycling.
Wood therefore can not be recycled into paper, because it is not yet paperBut CAN be reprocessed, just not directly in to paper.
The whole term "recycle" implies that the material has already been processedWell actually it doesn't .. it implies that the material has ceased to be of use to its owner AND could be reprocessed in to another product.
She also apparently thinks breakfast cereal can be recycled because there was a half-full box of cereal in the recycle tub tooOnce again, cereal is perfect for recycling. It is perfect organic material. Compost it. If you cant compost stuff yourself, then take it to a composting facility.
If you got over your ridiculous prejudices, got your brain out of tunnel vision mode and actually used it to think, instead of turning out this puerile bile - then maybe you'd realise what an impossible flatmate you probably are.
I don't understand why people are taking the side of your roomate! You are not the bad guy here! I just don't get it. Perhaps they do the same things and find the need to defend themselves by blasting you. Go figure.
And then there's the people who want attention by insisting they have had worse roomates. But the worse posts are the shameless plugs for their own blogs: "I have a similar site." Sure you do, and it sucks. I'm pretty sure they are jealous that your blog is entertaining and doing so well. ok, ok. mini-rant over.
Keep up the posts, this is a great blog to read.
Ha ha ha! I've got a roommate with the same blockage. In the recycling I find unwashed soup cans, plastic shopping bags, wax paper, crackers, and, possibly most strange, lint from the dryer's lint trap. Not sure what the thinking is behind that one - possibly that the lint can be harvested and recycled into a new sweater?
Perhaps threats would work like: If you don't crush the cans, I will crush you. If you don't flatten the boxes I will flatten you.
Or the obvious threat: Either make the boxes flat or get out of my flat.
Perhaps she suffers from that dreaded disease, with the main symptom being "reluctance to flatten" i.e. flatulence!
Hey Howard you stupid cunt, sure wood can be recycled, but not into paper. Just as you said it must be processed - tell me which council offers services to pick up wood and processing it into paper? And where the fuck is the nearest compost facility you stupid fuck?
Hey Bob,
I don't get it... why does this post make her a girl... and don't tell me I know nothing of girls. I grew up with 4 girls in the house.
To the writer...
This must be fun for you always haveing people try to guess what sex you are... or not.
Do something already, like move out. Some people have no scruples, and we need not live with them.
in response to the comment by anonymous.
you dont actually need a compost facility to turn anything into compost. you just simply put everything into a big container and it degrades itself in time.
so i do believe that you're the stupid fuck on this one, not howard
Banda de Rock Brazil
Just bumped into your blog for the first time. I work in a "serious" office in Japan and laughed so hard I had to leave because I had tears in my eyes! Never heard the word "fucktard" before! Nice blog.
This bitch is outrageous....if she is this sloppy just wait until she throws out some credit card receipts then get them numbers and have a whirl on her. I can see a mark from a mile.
Sounds like she does everything on purpose just to annoy you. The situation seems to be getting worse!
Hold on just one damn minute... you can't recycle wood?!
Dude! You mentioned that you lived with three girls. And its only the one that pisses you off.
So here's my question: HOW DO YOU KNOW ITS THE ONE GIRL? ITS PROBABLY ALL OF THEM!
And you think you're perfect.
You're killing me! Your blogs are hilarious! Your rants are probably a great way to vent your frustrations and get these things off your chest, as your flatmate is clearly an idiot.
Please please please let us know when your flatmate starts a blog. The retaliatory posts should be incredible! (In fact, what if that blog already exists?!) Always interesting to see things from both sides, as clearly one party can't be perfectly outside of blame...
You know I REALLY think you should sit her down and talk about this. If she still doesn't get it, take that frying pan of yours (or the log of wood) and bang her on the head with it...OR when she's out, get the locks all changed, and leave her stuff outside the flat with a post-it saying "You asked for it". Btw, what's wood doing around your flat?!
Anonymous said...
Hey Howard you stupid cunt & you stupid fuckOh look .. a man with a small penis and an big inferiority complex.
wood and processing it into paper?Every council in the country actually .. if that is you are too damn lazy and idle to get off your lardy bottom to take it there yourself.
Yes, you are clearly feeling robbed of attention in real life, so in order to get it, you are making this horse manure up in your little world of fantasy.
It is really quite sad - and sadder still that people are taken in by it.
I just really like your flatmate. She seems like the right flatmate for you and everyone. Is she Dutch, by the way? :)
what!!!!!!you call that pissing !!!!i don't think so and it is very rude and sad if she find this web
Excuse my ignorance if you sort of answered this before, but if you hate her so much, why is your flatmate still your flatmate?
Hey The Cure.
Heh, actually i said that i had no doubt anymore that he was a guy.. So this post doesn't make him a girl, but soooo much a guy *lol*
;o)
Bob The Gallery Blogger
I think I like your blog more than my own...
this is the absolute funniest shit. Recycling Sand- ha ha ha! That shit made me roll with laughter. I swear! What is eveyone's fucking problem! Stop beating him/her down! Its a funny blog! Read it and laugh or go on to someone else's!
Hey The Bob,
I am a idiot, what I was trying to say was that I think she IS a girl and that I know a lot about girls due to haveing 4 ladies in the house. So I was disagreeing with you...
But don't believe me... I'm an Idiot.
There are some things my flat mate does which piss me off too, but the fact that your flat mate does put bottles in the bin is a good thing. Besides, they pay some chump at the other end to take out the wood anyway, and lots of glass does not become new glass, broken glass is often crushed into... sand! And then used to make poor quality bricks which don't meet housing standards, or some other crap.
So my point is, get off your high horse, and moan about something a little more worthwhile. We all have issues with the ones we live with, but we don't all dedicate blogs to it. That's not just a little odd, it signifies that you are not a problem solver, you are a dork.
Move out, get on with your life, otherwise you becometh the fucktard.
You so ROCK!
My flatmate just doesn't recycle. In the eight months that we have lived together, she has taken the trash out ONCE. And the result of her efforts: She dumped all the recycling into the trash as well as a toilet brush I had just bought the day before. And on par with her involvement with trash... she's only vacuumed once in eight months.
My question is: Just what is your flatmate doing with wood?
Perhaps she's building a coffin-sized box?
Watch your back!
No doubt this is one of the most hilarious blogs around.
Then again.
Don't you think it will be more effective if you simply tell her the things you rave about in here?
Your just a moaning little bitch.
Wood can be recycled, numb nuts.
You complaine to much... just fucking get over it your acting emo!
Waste Disposal Units
i guess things are kosher now, it's april.....
peace in the middle east
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