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You'll see a similar attitude with shopping carts, "it's the cart collector's job to get those" as if that somehow kept the carts from blocking parking spots an

You'll see a similar attitude with shopping carts, "it's the cart collector's job to get those" as if that somehow kept the carts from blocking parking spots and walkways in the 30-90 minutes it takes that cart collector guy to come out and get them. My typical response is "so do you piss all over the toilet seat and leave it there because it's the janitor's job to come clean it up?"

shrimp_emoji 3y ago
What about plastic recycling and "don't throw this in the garbage!" items like batteries? My stance on those is that offloading it to the consumer is shitty and ineffective. Either have the garbage collection facility handle that or design products that safely biodegrade. An average person shouldn't be asked to do work to enable irresponsible manufacturing choices or underfunded waste management.
- crtasm 3y ago
  Some councils here will collect batteries left in a bag on top of the rubbish bin, but where I live they need taking to a collection point in a shop 5mins away. Even if we had to take them further I wouldn't think of that as "work". More should be done to encourage people to use recharagble batteries though, they save so much money on top of all the other benefits.
arp242 3y ago
After I moved to the UK I had a bit of a culture shock moment about this with my girlfriend; she just left the cart out on the parking lot. "wtf are doing?!"; "oh, someone will come and tidy it, everyone leaves it out". She is a very kind and considerate person.
- sandworm101 3y ago
  Given the per-minute parking regs sometimes seen in the UK, this might be a rational approach.
  - arp242 3y ago
    Nah, just free parking at Tesco and Sainsbury's. I can't recall ever paying for parking at stores like that.
- sanitycheck 3y ago
  This isn't normal, everybody puts them back - especially since the "slot in £1 to unchain" system became normal. Just FYI.
  - arp242 3y ago
    Well this was actually quite a long time ago, and it's really "then-girlfriend" – it's just that "girlfriend" reads better and it doesn't really matter. Didn't have to insert any money (which I specifically recall because it surprised me). But whether you or I consider it "normal" isn't really important, she considered it "normal", and I can only assume that's because when she grew up everyone was doing it and it was "normal".
richie_adler 3y ago
They probably do.

shrimp_emoji 3y ago

What about plastic recycling and "don't throw this in the garbage!" items like batteries? My stance on those is that offloading it to the consumer is shitty and ineffective. Either have the garbage collection facility handle that or design products that safely biodegrade. An average person shouldn't be asked to do work to enable irresponsible manufacturing choices or underfunded waste management.

crtasm 3y ago
Some councils here will collect batteries left in a bag on top of the rubbish bin, but where I live they need taking to a collection point in a shop 5mins away. Even if we had to take them further I wouldn't think of that as "work". More should be done to encourage people to use recharagble batteries though, they save so much money on top of all the other benefits.

arp242 3y ago

After I moved to the UK I had a bit of a culture shock moment about this with my girlfriend; she just left the cart out on the parking lot. "wtf are doing?!"; "oh, someone will come and tidy it, everyone leaves it out". She is a very kind and considerate person.

sandworm101 3y ago
Given the per-minute parking regs sometimes seen in the UK, this might be a rational approach.
- arp242 3y ago
  Nah, just free parking at Tesco and Sainsbury's. I can't recall ever paying for parking at stores like that.
sanitycheck 3y ago
This isn't normal, everybody puts them back - especially since the "slot in £1 to unchain" system became normal. Just FYI.
- arp242 3y ago
  Well this was actually quite a long time ago, and it's really "then-girlfriend" – it's just that "girlfriend" reads better and it doesn't really matter. Didn't have to insert any money (which I specifically recall because it surprised me). But whether you or I consider it "normal" isn't really important, she considered it "normal", and I can only assume that's because when she grew up everyone was doing it and it was "normal".

richie_adler 3y ago

They probably do.