Case 2: Big waste generator

Hussain is from Chicago, USA. He likes to cook in his apartment and cook at parties with friends. He uses kitchen appliances violently, never cleans the floors and leaves piles of garbage for others.

Perfunctory neighbors

He participated in the first two meetings of the cleaning team. The team leader Ingunn and I created some cleaning schedules. He volunteered to create and maintain these Google Docs online shared documents, but he casually put different files in different locations.

I reminded him at least three times to put all documents in one directory. He agreed on WhatsApp and in person, but he did not do it. He seemed to treat us neighbors as if they were nothing. He didn't want to be responsible for this, so two weeks later, I switched to another cloud platform, Microsoft 365, to create and maintain shared files independently;

Create garbage

According to the tenancy agreement, if you bring other people into the apartment to stay overnight, you must report it to the owner or obtain the consent of other neighbors, but he did not follow this rule.

Within a month of his arrival, Hussain found his girlfriend, a student, and we moved in together. This girlfriend was also an international student from another country who came at the same time. He and his girlfriend lived in our apartment every day.

He and his girlfriend love to cook. Almost every day, I can see him turning on the range hood to the loudest, turning the stove on to full power, and filling the table with his various pots and pans, making a feast like a restaurant chef. .

The best time for students and office workers to relax in the apartment is in the evening. When we came back from studying and working for the day and were preparing to cook and use the toilet at about 6-9 o'clock in the evening, we found that our kitchen and toilet were occupied. , it was packed with people I didn’t know.

Because he brought more female classmates to cook and party in our apartment. They were a group of people from outside, and we who were legally registered to live here had to avoid them. Hussain’s party time was very long, and I There are many times when I can't use the kitchen until after 11 o'clock at night, but it's time for me to rest and not suitable for eating.

Not cleaning the kitchen

They only wipe the tables and clean the stoves, but they don't clean the floors. They always leave a lot of food packaging and kitchen waste in the apartment.

For two weeks, several of us environmental activists were not in the apartment, so during that period, the hygiene level of the apartment visibly deteriorated.

The discarded food is almost overflowing from the trash can. In August and September in the summer, all kinds of messy garbage are not thrown out. The apartment smells bad and there are many flies and mosquitoes.

One week it was also Hussain's turn to be on cleaning duty. His girlfriend and female classmates only helped him throw out some garbage. The key was to take out the kitchen garbage, otherwise there would be no trash cans available when they were cooking. The black stains on the floor The dirt clings to feet and they don't even clean it once, waiting for me and the environmental activists to come back in a week and take it upon themselves to clean the floors and thoroughly remove the trash from every corner of the stove and sink.

Rough use of kitchen appliances

Hussain's use of kitchen appliances is unique, and of course others also have his style.

They used the oven roughly and turned it on to the maximum temperature of 250 degrees Celsius. The oven was already smoking. The oven was full of oil and burnt black charcoal. He never cleaned it. I stood nearby and saw it, so I reminded him of the oven. Some notes on use, for ordinary baked pizzas and grilled meats, such high temperatures and such long times are not required, he had no reaction to me.

He has never washed dishes before. Some of the dishes have no oil stains and only contain a small amount of vegetable scraps or juice, such as the plastic mesh used to put leafy vegetables. He rinses them with water and puts them in the dishwasher. , is it necessary to use a dishwasher?

There are some bowls or pots with special shapes that are very large and have handles, which take up a lot of space in the dishwasher. This often makes it impossible for others to use the dishwasher, so he also puts them in the dishwasher.

His dinner plates often carry food, and instead of emptying them into the trash, he puts them directly into the dishwasher, causing pasta and larger foods to clog the dishwasher spout. Of course, this is what he does There are many lazy people in our apartment, more than half of the people are like this.

They may fill up the space of the dishwasher at one gathering, making it impossible for other residents to use the dishwasher. The sink is often filled with dirty dishes from overnight, so the sink becomes the dirtiest place on the floor and the dirtiest place on the floor. The dirty ones are the kitchen waste bins.