Nosey neighbours and my trash disposal habits

[Elphaba 1]

Right, so I think my landlord or my neighbours are obsessed with trash... I have had my neighbours (or so my landlord tells me) complaining that my rubbish bags are too big and that they leave no room for the rubbish of the other tenants! They also say that I put out 3 bags at a time-which I don't-more like one bag once a fortnight (after all it is just me!). They also say that I am not separating my recycleables, which of course I am but moreover what I'd like to know is how my neighbours know if I am separating my recyclables or not given that my rubbish bags (the allegedly large ones) are dark green and definitely NOT see-through!

 

So, is there a CORRECT sized rubbish bag which is acceptable? Lord knows everything else is regulated here so why not the size of your friendly waste disposal bag?!!!

 

All input welcome! :blink:

[Carm 74]

Wow, they lead really busy lives if they have time to check your garbage bag size. :blink:

[sarabyrd 18,767]

Ask the neighbors to show you the correct size garbage bag that they use, then ask the landlord if that is the regulated size. Direct communication tends to phaze people.

[marie 1]

Oh thats nothing...I had my neighbour call the police and my landlord, because I wasn't there when my rubbish "bio" bin fell over and stuff fell out...eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek. Very embarrassing...Note to self...Sellotape shut the top of the bio bin...each time I leave the house...in case neighbours should be inconvenienced again when I am away!!!

[grazzenger 12]

i would go and find the largest binbag available to man and use that. if they're too lame to say something to you, wind them up, idiots.

 

i mean, do your neighbours mean so much to you? nope, not if they go telling porkies to your landlord behind your back.

[Jeckel 15]

We had neighbours who opened one of our bin bags and seperated the rubbish into the piles next to the bin as a "demonstration" of how it's done. We found out that it's illegal for anyone else to go through your rubbish. Buy the biggest blackest non transparent bags and tell 'em where to go . . . . . . . they're no allowed to open them :D

[Katrina 4,522]

If the rubbish isn't separated, the waste disposal company can refuse to take your refuse. Your landlord may then be charged for the disposal. This is also the case if the bins are overflowing - your landlord can be charged for the excess. This could be the reason for the complaint (amongst others).

Bin bags purchased from the Munich refuse company (to name one example) cost 6€ and include the extra disposal cost which is handy if you have a one off load to get rid of.

Munich Household Waste bylaw

[Elfenstar 1,676]

some places in munich don't pick up recyclables, so where else should you put the stuff?

i've got plastic/glass containers on my way to the u-bahn, so i separate (i don't have much), but i know in my old neighborhood, you had to drive to get to the nearest one, so all those dove body lotion bottles got put in the trashcans.

[Katrina 4,522]

You take them to the bottle bank (they also have plastics collection), alternatively, supermarkets etc. over a certain size have a recycling area by law. Take the empty bottle when you buy the new one. I also wish that we had Gelbe Sack in Munich but we don't.

PS I also love Dove.

[cinzia 2,643]

Elphaba, probably your neighbors assumed you weren't separating your recyclables because you have (in their minds) so much garbage.

[hams 1,387]

Cinzia - don't think Elphaba has much rubbish

 

 

more like one bag once a fortnight (after all it is just me!).

She's just got nosey, interfering neighbours who'd probably report her to the Gestapo if they were still in existence. Tell them to mind their own business. Kümmern Sie sich um Ihre eigenen Sachen!

[Darkknight 2,305]

I'd start spraying the inside of all the bags you take out with something that simulates very closely the smell of a dead skunk.. That outta teach'em to pick thru your garbage.. :D

[rick_de 826]

 

We had neighbours who opened one of our bin bags and seperated the rubbish into the piles next to the bin as a "demonstration" of how it's done. We found out that it's illegal for anyone else to go through your rubbish. Buy the biggest blackest non transparent bags and tell 'em where to go . . . . . . . they're no allowed to open them

God that is really nazi and busybody. And germans wonder why people dont like them!

 

I recall a few years back accompanying an english colleague who didnt speak german to view a flat to let in Frankfurt. The landlord, a kleinbourgious type who lived in some little spiesser village out in the sticks was ernestly explaining - to me - the complexities of the four - 4 no less - different rubbish bins out in the Hof and how the rubbish must all be carefully separated and divided up between the different bins. As if I was going to seriously translate word for word all that german rubbish separation crap into english! - and I didnt either. I just said "hes going on about all the rubbish separation". The national obsession. Germans and their rubbish...

 

I even once found a piece of my rubbish sitting on my doorstep when I came home one night. I assume the dustman, or the caretaker or a neighbour? or local rubbish gestapo were responsible. How did they know it was mine.. Can only assume they found an envelope with my name and address in amongst the rubbish.

 

Since then I always make a point, always, with no exception to make sure that everything and anything that might have my name on that goes in the bin is first put through my paper shredder, so as to stop that kind of behaviour. Also serves to help prevent "Identity theft" as well.

[rick_de 826]

 

Wow, they lead really busy lives if they have time to check your garbage bag size.

All germans leave busy(body) lives!

[marie 1]

Well my "mull problem" lead to the landlord visiting and also because the neighbour complained...he didn't like the state of my garden. Unbelievable. Each year this neighbour gets his private gardener in and spends an arm and a leg for a garden full of gorgeous flowers (almost the day after the snow stops) and each year exactly when I take my holidays..he invites my landlord over to take a look at my "lived in garden" I mean its not as trim as his. I admit there are lots of kids toys lying around. The bushes are not perfectly symmetrical. Theres a leaf pile in the corner. The landlord then ordered his gardener to come and tidy up mine without even telling me.!!. End of the story is, my germans neighbours have had enough...they can be difficult but I have always try to be nice to them...now the landlord has given me notice to move as he worries more about staying friends with the neighbours. I find this type of german behaviour unbelievable. So I will be homeless in a few months...looking through Toytown Accommodation ads:-)

[hams 1,387]

I can't believe your bastard landlord gave you notice because of such trivialities. I would say fight it, but I think it's better you move on. But before you do, why don't you not separate your rubbish for a week and then dump it in the bins on your moving out day. Really sad I know, but not as pathetic as your neighbours and landlord. People need to get a life.

[Kay 4,137]

 

I find this type of german behaviour unbelievable.

Looks like we'd better start believing it...

I'm very sorry to hear about this turn of events and I hope you'll find a nice place (and decent neighbours!) soon.

[UrbanAngel 445]

Go to that union thing for tenants and see what your rights are! I'm sure he can't do that.

[marie 1]

I'm sure I can probably fight it on some counts...but I couldn't be bothered really. When the landlord has such an attitude and I would be constantly under threat from the neighbours. Better to find another place and a bit of peace. The neighbour even told my landlord that my rolladen (outside) shutters were down quite a lot. I mean...jeez some times I run out of the house in the morning after getting the kids out to school and don't get a chance to pull them up. He actually asked me ...if I was still living here.!! I guess he must have his binoculars out every day

[Kay 4,137]

@UA

Do you think it would be worth it? The landlord probably doesn't have the right to ask her to leave, but even if she proved him wrong with the help of the Mietverein the neighbours would make her life hell afterwards. It would be like living under siege, especially if the nosey parkers have nothing better to do than find fault with anything and everything, which seems to be the case.

 

Edit: Now that I've read Marie's latest post, it seems to me that she's under constant surveillance already!