Wheely Bins: "No 10c Recyclable Bottles/Cans Inside" Stickers

browser on 05/02/2025 - 11:36
Last edited 05/02/2025 - 14:16 by 1 other user

They actually exist, I was wondering if there's a demand and people actually make and sell this type of stickers.

https://bedrockgraphics.net.au/product/no-recycling-in-bin/

Issue is people come looking for refundable bottles the night before rubbish collection, making a mess and don't fully close the lid, and if it rains the inside of the bin is wet and stinky.

We push the bin out late, but they come later, and this is not a good solution because we forgot about the bins a couple of times and had to rush out in the morning when the truck approaches.

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  ColtNoir on 06/02/2025 - 12:23

  We have a guy who comes through the neighbourhood before they get picked up. He never leaves a mess. There’s just some a-holes out there.

  He doesn’t speak English very well so good on him for doing what he can.

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  StingyBritches on 06/02/2025 - 14:34

  +1

  In our street, most of the neighbours leave their bottles in crates out the front/near their bins. The kids from one of the houses drop by once a week or so and collect all the bottles. Simples.

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    LFO on 06/02/2025 - 18:04

    Same here. Well done.
    Once in a fortnight!!.
    Cannot understand the bitching.

    Is it just plain jealousy or a guilt trip? … they are doing it and so should I

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  82norm on 06/02/2025 - 15:02

  +2

  You need it in simplified and traditional Chinese. English won’t mean anything. Btw, thanks for reminding me, it’s dumpster diving tonight for me around my street. Collected $7.30 last week over just 3 bins. Happy days. And bin lids were left as they were found.

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    Protractor on 06/02/2025 - 18:51

    F off is international lingo

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    whyisave on 06/02/2025 - 20:13

    Collected $7.30 last week over just 3 bins

    How much time did you spend doing that ?

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  Mugsy on 06/02/2025 - 15:08

  Our previous place had an elderly couple who use to come around prior to 6am on recycling bin day to grab the recyclable bottles out of the bins. They had their logistics sorted. One would be in charge of driving their station wagon along the long townhouse complex driveway so the other could offload their bottles every 4 or 5 bins, and also check the bin they'd stop in front of.

  I noticed that they'd skip my bin every week… I guess they knew I didn't put our bottles in the recycling bin.

  The current house has a cyclist who'd come around and check BOTH bins about 4am on bin day (noticed him on our security cameras recordings). On our first bin day here, I had a garbage bag full of expired goods at the top the regular bin that he just took. Must have been gold to him. We've been here for a few months now so the regular bin must be smelling of the dog's poo and piss but the guy still checks both bins without fail. I still don't have any bottles or cans in the recycling bin so he walks away empty handed… I'm curious as to when he'll realise checking our bin is a waste of time?

  Anyway, neither of the above parties leave a mess.

  The ones that do leave a mess… the youngins that come around when one of the houses here that hosts a weeknight party from time to time. Vodka Cruiser cans are left along the footpaths and street. It's appalling.

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  Lastchancetosee on 06/02/2025 - 16:57

  No sticker used. We just taped a paper saying no bottles or refundables, and once the person who comes by every week to get the bottles saw that we never put any in they stopped. We give the bottles and cans to the pensioner opposite once they build up a bit.

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  Mrgreenz on 06/02/2025 - 19:58

  Can we get a grass roots OZB petition going to end this lunacy.

  People who didn't put recyclables in recycle bin, aren't changing their habits for 10c per unit en mass.

  People who did the right thing before are still doing the same thing. Putting them in the damn recycle bin we pay for.

  Or collecing 10 weeks worth of bottles to make it anywhere near worthwhile.

  Absoloute farce, Duplication of services, extra tax, inefficiency, for what? A feel good hit for a small slither of the population who thinks it makes a difference?

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  endotherm on 06/02/2025 - 20:43

  Design and print your own. StickerMule usually have a deal for $19USD delivered for 10, or $1 if you are a new customer.

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  mrhugo on 06/02/2025 - 20:50

  There is an old man that walks our streets from midday, then comes back few hours later going thought the recycle bins.

  Our bins and usually stomped on a dozen times during the fortnight and the last thing I want is some guy rearranging everything and having the lid not close and my bin not been emptied.

  Solution, I take the bin out just before I go bed.

  I'm any case, they won't find 10c bottles because the kids collect. I reckon they have collected $100 over a couple of years.

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