Recycling boxes (please stop nicking them)

[HonaloochieB]

JenniferJ Wrote:

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> Just home after a spot of dinner and our recycling

> bag (FULL!) has been nicked from Upland Road. If

> you are the culprit hang your head in shame, it's

> pathetic.

>

> I'll now have to order more from the council -

> that's what you should have done mr /ms thieving

> *@!&$**!

>

> Amazed this has happened in this day and age.

> Sorry to innocent others for this rant but this

> has really got my goat.

Let me assure you it wasn't me. Or at least I'm pretty sure I haven't stolen from you. It's not very likely I reckon.

Upland Road's right on my manor. Doorstep, my own, shitting. Not my style.

So you can rule me out of your enquiries. But good luck.

[Mick Mac]

Jennifer's pretty pissed off.

[JenniferJ]

Thanks HonaloochieB, I will eliminate you from the 'possible' list ;-)

I have calmed down a bit more, just worried that my careful recycling could now be in a bin somewhere - I am a greenie and can't bear the thought of any of my paper ending up in landfill.

Also, I am having a serious clear-out and now probably will have to wait a week before a new bag arrives, so have nowhere to put my recycling till then, humph.

All I'll repeat is 'hang your head in shame' to the culprit...

[Pickle]

JenniferJ, I'd be more worried that someone's taken your recycling home to have a good sift through to find "useful" information :( Hope you don't put name/address info in there without destroying it first?

I'm wary, as had a few credit card applications submitted in my name a couple of years back after our recycling bag had obviously been rifled through over night. We now put the bag out first thing in the morning, and are a lot more careful about what we put in it.

[dukesdenver]

If your box/bag has vanished just put your recycling out in ordinary supermarket carrier bags - the recycling chaps will take it anyway.

[TJ]

I also had a few attempts at identity theft after our bin was gone through. Its not very environmental to say, but all personal docs now go on the fire to avoid the same.... I wish there was a secure recycling plus normal.

[indiepanda]

I just shred anything I'd rather no one read - no room in an upstairs flat with no garden access for a bonfire. Doesn't cost much to get a decent one from WHSmiths.