People who don't recycle.
It's easy - paper, cardboard, plastic, metal, glass, old batteries, dud electrical equipment - they can all be recycled with a minimum of fuss and effort these days. Organic waste goes on the compost heap. My weekly waste amounts to a few fag-ends and some Dairy Milk wrappers these days (Cadbury, what was wrong with paper and foil?).

Yet I used to live with three people who couldn't even be bothered to separate out their empty cider cans, let alone rinse a plastic milk bottle and put it in the container that was RIGHT NEXT TO THE BIN. Now I've moved out, and they have a new housemate, no-one recycles anything at all.

The most common excuse I heard was "but the planet's fucked anyway, China power stations blah blah blah..." That may be true, but your rubbish ends up in landfill in the UK, so all you are effectively doing is filling our tiny island with shit. I've lived near landfill, it's fucking minging.

There's no excuse, none at all.
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Mon 5 May 2008, 14:05, 4 replies)

I mentioned recycling to my local pub manager,
and they basically laughed at me, saying it was too much hassle. I think someone came up with the figure of running out of landfill in about 8 years in the UK. No idea what we're going to start doing with rubbish then. Fly it to the moon? Dump it in the sea?
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Mon 5 May 2008, 14:10, closed)

My ex used to manage a pub in Soho
and Westminster Council provided them with no recycling facilities whatsoever, so aside from the tiny Britvic orange juice bottles, every wine, beer and cider bottle went straight in the bin.

The situation has changed in the last couple of years - now they have some recycling bins at the end of their street and have to carry everything down there themselves, which they do, but I doubt many of the other bar managers in the area will be bothered to.
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Mon 5 May 2008, 14:26, closed)

Over on the left side of the US
we get paid for recycling.
You pile up your cans and bottles and papers and then haul a carful to the recycling center where they weigh your load and give you lovely cash back.
( Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Mon 5 May 2008, 15:12, closed)

I used to work at a dump
we had a separate skip for cardboard. But despite lots and lots of signs tell people not to put polystyrene and plastic in with the cardboard in it went anyway. On busy days there was no way you could keep track so they were just written off and sent straight to the landfill
( willenium Fist bump for verification, Mon 5 May 2008, 15:33, closed)