emptying recycling into bin without noise

lstar337

Interesting topic.

When I use the bottle bank I try to make as much noise as possible as I love the sound of the bottles smashing!

I assumed everyone was like this, but maybe its just me! :rotfl:

greensalad

lstar337 wrote: »

Interesting topic.

When I use the bottle bank I try to make as much noise as possible as I love the sound of the bottles smashing!

I assumed everyone was like this, but maybe its just me! :rotfl:

I'm the same. SMASH. SMASH. Sometimes you drop a really big bottle and it's so satisfying. The other day I took a broken mirror to the dump and threw it on the heap and it made the most beautiful smash ever. Hrm, I wonder if that's 7 years bad luck or OK because it was already smashed by someone else?!

Anyway, OP you are thinking too much into this. As long as you do it at a reasonable time (like after 9am before 10pm I'd say) it's fine. You're worrying about nothing.

lstar337

greensalad wrote: »

I'm the same. SMASH. SMASH. Sometimes you drop a really big bottle and it's so satisfying. The other day I took a broken mirror to the dump and threw it on the heap and it made the most beautiful smash ever.

Ooh yeah, just thinking about that makes me tingle!

Always love it in winter when big ice sheets form and you can pick them up and smash them on the ground like glass, but without worrying about harming anybody. (I think I may actually be a kid in a mans body. :rotfl:)

PheoUK

I wonder the same - a busy work schedule often means I end up doing this later than if like so i can put the bins out.

Perhaps some industrial foam in the bottom - glued down. Although it's likely to get very manky over time I guess, and no guarantee you get the same bin back every time either if it's like round our way!

phil24_7

I don't drink often...but when I do I binge drink like crazy!

If I empty the recycling and it is full of bottles I don't care about the noise. I see it as an accomplishment that I am still able to do things unaided after drinking so much! lol

lstar337

PheoUK wrote: »

Perhaps some industrial foam in the bottom - glued down.

The bottles will still hit against each other.

I don't think what the OP wants is possible.

spadoosh

Had a few hours to digest this and come up with some (what i think) good ideas.

1. Line your bin with rubber mats.

2. Get a water butt tap and install it on your bin, 1/4 fill with water then dump stuff in, when the bin needs to go out just open the tap.

3. Install a board on the lid that will go inside the bin fixed at a right angle. So once you open the bin you have a platform to put your rubbish on, when you close the lid it should give you enough time to have the bin shut before it hits the bottom reducing the noise. Like a dog poo bin.

4. Use a litter picker.


The best method ive used though for dealing with this is willful ignorance, works everytime.

Ectophile

How about just throw some paper and cardboard in first. Then do the bottles?

Torry_Quine

How does anyone know what the bottles contain? Lots of things come in glass, not just alcohol.

PasturesNew

dada44 wrote: »

... (up to waist height) ...

You must be tall! Mine's up to my teeties.

What I do is think about what I'm putting in - and do it carefully/quietly, one item at a time. Glass is separate for me, but if I were putting glass in then I'd make sure I dropped it onto some paper or something.

Just tipping a random selection of stuff from a bucket will always make a noise.

It only takes, say, 30 seconds extra, to put the things in individually, looking where you're aiming for.

I don't use much glass. Probably 1 coffee jar/month and one other random jar/month, so I tend to take them to the public recycling as it'd take me about a year to fill the plastic rectangular bucket that's provided for glass.