I shred anything that has my name or address on it, I then put the shredded paper in a paper Migro's bag and send it for re-cycling. Everything else (cardboard and paper) goes in to a second bag and gets sent off. just How am I supposed to recycle the shredded paper unless I put it in something?

This sounds like the biggest load of horse crap I have ever heard in my life. I know that's what the rule says but this just sounds like a secret problem to justify their ridiculous rule. How am I supposed to recycle the paper bags once they have started to rip? I bet that I would get a fine for not recycling if I just dumped one in the normal trash.

Blah blah blah. Fine, but clear your mess. Climate of fear and suspicion? Grow up and don't inconvenience the rest of your neighbors with your problem! Just deal with it. Christ, I can't believe anybody thought to post a thread about this.

There are new rules to learn wherever you go (or at least in all the different places I have lived in) so it's not really big news that you have to adjust and make a few changes.

In this case, how do they know it's a newcomer and not someone who just can't be arsed? I guess if they started sorting through your recycling to find out your contact details to make the effort to send you a letter or call on you to say "Hey dude, next time no bag, ok?" that would be deemed unacceptable and intrusive, no? Isn't this kind of a no-win situation for them?

A lot of string seems to be some kind of plastic too.
Are we supposed to send our ball of string for chemical analysis before we can use it?

Mikey's in a bad mood. He's usually such a cheerful lad.

this is why i stopped bothering with recycling and just throw everything in the zuri sacks.

Probably because all this petty crxp that goes on here is getting up his nose.

Well, that is where it gets interesting. If you do it the "proper" way and use string ... then the string itself is in USE. So technically it's not being recycled. So it can't be left out. However, if the string was meant to be recycled then it would need to be put into a pile and tied up with a piece of string. But then THAT piece of string is in use and therefore can't be left with the recycling. So that piece of string also needs to be bundled up, around the first bundle, as a bundle to be recycled which would need to be secured with a piece of string. But then that piece ....

So I use a Marktkauf bag.

Erm, don't you mean Nev? I'm still reeling from a lack of cheese

It was only a couple of minutes out of my way, certanly a great deal quicker than making the newspapers look like new again!

You must have some really interesting definitions of intrusive and unacceptable.
Think about what you are now saying...

It is not ok to call someone out for disposing of stuff in an un-official manner.
It is, apparently, unimportant or acceptable for someone to dump stuff all over the front of someone's apartment when they don't comply with your social mores'.

Really interesting... Very, very,... Hmmm...

The times that I caught people doing stuff that was wrong, I actually just casually mentioned to them that it wasn't done that way and how it might be done better and observed that there might be consequences. It certainly isn't my right or responsibility to act like a petulant child and dump their stuff all over their place of residence.

Yeah, I think that is the crux. I am still not getting that it is OK to have a tantrum in that fashion. Something is definitely wrong when people actually defend that sort of behaviour.

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Dude, I'm not the OP. And I haven't (yet) been turned into the recycling police. So, I'm not sure which mess I should clean up.

My point here was these stories reflect bad policy.

1. Generally speaking, Switzerland suffers from enforcement without education.

2. Encouraging neighbors to snitch on neighbors does not create a friendly or hospitable environment.

To be perfectly honest it never really bothered me in the slightest - I've got much more important stuff to get my knickers in a twist about to let recycling rules and the rest of the do's and don'ts of Switzerland get me down. It just amuses me how much bandwidth it takes up in other peoples lives.

How can people get so livid about this stuff?

Is it clear plastic string or coloured?

I can tell you simply that it is the dumping part that is what makes people livid.
The fact that the OP used the wrong bag is immaterial.
The irony is that the person who dumped the material, not only was an ass, but they broke at least 2, possibly more, laws in the process. Still don't get why this behaviour is acceptable.

I don't think at any point (no, just double-checked through my posts) did I mention anything about neighbours being okay to dump recycling or anything related to it.

I pointed out the rule as I understood it from the cantonal website, gave an example of when I had seen the bags being left behind. Given that, I bundle my recycling according to the rule and get on with my life.

Now, what was all that noise about Swiss neighbours?

I wasn't allowed my one word reply.
I was told it was too short and I had to lengthen it.
Don't tempt me

With your repeated admonishments that implied that newbie moaners were at fault, you left the distinct impression that the behaviour was unimportant and that the fault solely rested on the the errant recycler.

Don't understand the comment about Swiss neighbors, but then again, I am not Swiss.

Make sure you iron the old Züritipps and Tages Anzeigers before bundling. 20Minuten and pizza flyers don't need ironing. The knot needs to be a truckers hitch or bowline / two half hitches. Overhand knots will result in Sandgrounders knickers getting in a twist.

Clearly, Apèro time went happy hour.

And in my case, the thought that an errant recycler might, whatever the reason, consider leaving their uncollected trash lying around. What branch of science is that attitude based on?