Portland man on a mission to track down who keeps dumping urine in his recycling bin

We talked with a man living in a Northeast Portland neighborhood, minding your own business, who has had a curious man shows up in the middle of the night.

This all started in September when Alex Van Duyn and his wife noticed their garbage bins hadn’t been collected.

"So, I went to open the blue bin. And lo and behold, there was a nice deposit of gallons size bottles of urine, to put it plainly, and there were six of them," Van Duyn says.

Six bottles of urine in his recycling bin. The garbage hauler wouldn’t take it. It’s a biohazard.

Eventually, Van Duyn pulled his garbage bins, hoping that the urine dropper would go away.

And he did, straight to the neighbor’s bin, and then another neighbor.

"So, it sort of started to unravel, and I don’t know why he’s hitting the same location so many times. That doesn’t make sense to me and why he is doing it," Van Duyn says.

So, who is this man, driving a late-model vehicle, depositing bottles of urine?

A grainy video shows him pulling up, getting out and leaving the jugs behind.

Van Duyn shared his ordeal on the social app called Nextdoor. He’s been flooded with theories as to the reason behind it all.

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