Mystifiying Things Ch. 1

The Chinese do some things that just don't make sense. I suspect that part of this is because I'm in a backwater, undeveloped part of China and that many of these things don't happen in, say, Beijing or Shanghai. So maybe I should say that Jiliners do some things that just don't make sense. I've decided to start posting a list of things that I can legitimately find no explanation for.

I live on the top floor. I have no neighbours. There is no elevator. Between my floor and the penultimate floor is a staircase with a landing. There is no reason for anyone except me to ever regularly ascend to this landing. At the landing is a small panel door that allows access to some plumbing. There is a bit of a ledge inside. A supply of recycling (ex. empty water bottles, coke cans etc.) slowly builds up on this ledge and then periodically disappears. What is going on? Why would somebody go to the trouble of climbing the stairs to this landing, in order to keep their recycling in a place not intended or suitable for recycling?

This mystery nags at me in an entirely inordinate amount. There is just no reason for this to be happening. People don't go out of their way to purposefully inconvenience themselves for no reward. I have considered a wide range of possibilities and none seem any more likely than that someone is choosing to store their recycling there. But the issue really isn't the mystery, it's the fact that based on my experiences with Jiliners so far, there probably IS NO REASONABLE explanation...and that drives me nuts. If I were to find the person who was doing it they probably couldn't tell me why they did it. Instead the conversation would probably go something like this: Me: "Why do you keep your recycling in such an inconvenient place"...Culprit: "that's where the recycling is kept"...Me: "But why right there? Why not somewhere that's more suited for it and easier to get to?"...Culprit: "I keep my recycling in this little hole in the wall"...Me: "I see that, but I'm trying to understand WHY you choose to put it THERE..."...Culprit: "because that's where the recycling is kept". Sigh. All day, every day, folks.