'Lazy' Recycling on site

You got there before me JayEss, I remember the toilet monitors.....think they got called worse than that as well.

Never ceases to amaze what some folks get up to on their holidays! 

Can you please explain how you know it is 70-80 year olds please? 

Perhaps arthritis in their hands JVB. ☹️ My mum could not crush a paper bag, from about my age.

Toppo do you do the same in Hotels and restaurants?

Thought this might come in handy 

On another thread, some time back, members were reporting that all the rubbish was lumped together on some sites before collection. Who knows, I just sort it and get on with my holiday. 😀 I am however approaching the specified age bracket, so perhaps I will revert to type.😉

Correct. Waste management methods depend on the local arrangements. 

It's entirely possible to find things aren't the same as they are at home. Who'd have thought? 

People assume the arrangements with site rubbish are the same as for domestic waste. No way are they.

In a couple of years maybe I'll decide not to bother sorting and then people can moan about me as well. 

I would sooner be a 'naughty recycler' than be an abuser of fellow campers. I can't remember the last time I read an opening post that had so much nastiness in it's content. Toppo, try being more respectful to the people you share your site with

Agreed, R2b. It's hard to believe that one member can talk about fellow members in such terms. It's insulting.

There are a couple of large stumbling blocks to recycling on site that may not be obvious to some. 

First of all, there is the storage in the caravan.  Little enough space for one bin never mind five. There is (was?) a rule about not having loose equipment around one's outfit so accumulating seperate piles there is not possible. It would only encourage foraging by vermin anyway. Not everyone makes frequent trips on foot to the toilet block, and often the recycling bins are located somewhere else anyway.

So even if one establishes a recycling protocol in the caravan it may not match what the commercial waste collectors want. Also their containers are large and not suited to the elderly and/or infirm lifting a heavy lid at considerable height.

So I'm not at all surprised that many just put it all in the general waste. I'm pleased that they do as they could just throw it out the window, as so many car occupants do at traffic lights.