Today's Pet Peeve - Saturday, November 6, 2010 (American, school, home, people)

[Suncoast Guy]

Hello all!

Today's Peeve:People throwing trash into a recycle bin.

That's what causes the waste people to take those recycle bins away... because guess who has to go through them and take all the garbage out? They do! I remember something like this happening when I was in Orlando.Folks... just put the trash in the trash bin,.. don't make it harder for anyone.!

[Nomadicus]

Trashy people do trashy things.

[wit-nit]

Surprisingly there are still a lot of people that don't know what is recyclable and what is not, and then there are the slobs.

[nimchimpsky]

I wonder if the people who do this even realize the bin they're throwing their trash in is actually a recycling bin.

[ho hey!]

Usually it's the other way around for me. Bottles in a trash bin. >:O

[SATX56]

Recycling will become an ever more important task as time goes on. Depleted resources will lead to an end to irretrievable dumping of recyclables. The more the public does to participate the less pain for all.

[taigagirl]

I really believe there are people out there, who actually don't know or don't care about recycling. And people that litter, don't get me going

[AksarbeN]

They don't do that in Europe from what I've heard. Must be an American problem with our educational system, nothing taught at home or at school.

[JustJoy]

Here you have to take your recycling down to a center so there's no throwing trash in the bins. Usually other way around and people throw things in the trash instead of taking to be recycled. When I was in CO though we did have different colored bins for paper, plastic, etc. that we'd put by the curb then recycle people came by.

[Sweetie Pie]

Went to the park yesterday, only to be shocked & saddened by the careless, ugly litter. How hard is it for people to walk a few extra steps to throw their trash in the right bins??? Lazy, ignorant @&#Ker$!!!