To find this disgusting?

We are allowed extra bins here.

One extra blue(recycling) and green(garden waste) bin are free, for total of two of each.

A second grey/black (general waste) or a 3rd green/blue bin costs extra. Not entirely sure but think around £65 per bin?

We do also have to pay an annual subscription just for the green bins to be collected fortnightly. It is £50/yr for first green bin and then £30/yr for each extra green bin up to a total of 3 green bins.

We don’t have wheelie bins yet… are you allowed to purchase extra bins?

Maybe they'll stamp it down before bin day
Where else are they supposed to put it
Recycling isn't collected from my communal bins anymore because idiots were contaminating it with normal rubbish
Every time this happens and they had to come back we were charged £200( private owned flats)
So I don't recycle anything now

I mean they obviously need to break down their cardboard but I don’t think that means they qualify as “trampa that don’t care” …

where did you get your binoculars? I need some

OP, just be glad you don’t live in my borough. Our bin men have been off/on strike since Nov. We’ve got over flowing bins (household and recycling) and little strewn all over back lanes.
Think yourself lucky all you’ve got is a bin with an open lid.

If my household bin or any bin for that matter is even slightly open it isn’t emptied. It has to be totally closed. Them’s the rules.

Yes they are too lazy to even break
down the cardboard boxes. I’m sure it would fit and close then.

I cannot imagine caring a jot about this. I don't think I'd even notice.

I don't agree with recycling very much. Most just goes to landfill somewhere else. On the other hand, my house is full of recycled furniture (mostly Victoriana, which I like), I re-use jars, boxes and tubs for storage and I use paper for kindling in 4 open fires. But sort out tins for the bin men? No. The point of a refuse collection is the prevention of vermin and disease - and that should be the priority, hence I disagree with fortnightly collections, once a week minimum, please.

And also, will no-one think of future archaeologists? Where are they to get their information about us if there are no landfills or middens? Don't assume they can use our technology; it will be obsolete and most of its contents lost to time (as are some now, although it is possible still to get floppies etc read - I have done so - but this is by no means likely to be the case in 1000 years, or even 500). Support Future Archaeologists! Use landfill! (This is meant to be a joke btw - well, partly.)

We recycled till our bins were full and no one came

So we take the recycling down to the tip and put it in the general waste bin.

I was just gonna leave this and not comment, but I'm not gonna ignore all the judgy Judy's! 1. A lot of England has big bins for recycling - which ALL their recycling goes into. If they're a big family they will have a lot more recycling than others

1. As a disabled person, I've struggled numerous times to break down boxes, especially when my son was little. Do you know the whole dynamics of this family? Instead of judging, why not offer to help them?

@VeterinaryCareAssistant a lot of the packaging plastics can be recycled now. Some supermarkets have "soft plastic" recycling collections.
Apologies if this doesn't apply to you but I see it a lot in supermarkets where someone has removed loads of packaging (like the cardboard box a pizza comes in etc) but then just shoved it all in the customer bin by the door. Which defeats the whole purpose as none of that will get recycled.

But not everyone does manage, as this thread illustrates.

It's not recyclable stuff I leave behind. It's mainly the one time use plastic.

I recycle lots of stuff and our binmen take piles of recycling left next to our recycling bin so I don't have concerns about overflowing recycling.

@VeterinaryCareAssistant you do realise most of that packaging will end up in Lidl's landfill bin rather than being recycled.

When I go to the shops (Lidl mainly) I buy my goods and go to the side area to pack it properly in my bags. I take off lots of packaging there and then and put it in the shop's bins. This leaves me with less waste for my bin and if enough people did the same it might make shops think about all the unnecessary packaging - things like the nets on fruit and the trays and plastic you get 4 packs of tins in and wrappers on cucumbers/lettuces/cauli flowers etc.

What kind of items? Toys? Nothing I buy regularly is that difficult to manage. I stack things like mushroom cartons and yoghurt pots together. Cardboard can be flattened.

Perhaps suggest to them to request a bigger bin from the council, it shouldn't cost anything if the council is only replacing with a larger and taking the smaller one back

I can sympathise with you OP - we live next to an alley and people are so lazy they throw the rubbish on the floor by the bin, leave the lids up , block bins with large boxes etc the flies are so bad that we cannot use our garden in the summer. My husband has to go out twice a week to help the refuse collectors ( they don’t pick things that are not in the bin). Looking at the picture your neighbour has the same issue as the people next door to us in that they don’t break down boxes etc just shove it in whole so that there is no space to add other things. Lots of people on here saying it’s the council providing small bins or not collecting regularly whilst there maybe some truth in this it’s also time that people took pride in their areas and actively fry things to keep them tidy rather than expect the council to fix it. If everyone picked up a couple of bits of rubbish a day our neighbourhoods would be so much nicer.

Dont tell mums net tell them.... nicely of course.

If your that bothered offer a bit of space in your bin. What exactly are they meant to do.

My bins are like this every week without fail. General waste and recycling. I burn all the cardboard and it's still always overflowing. (As are many of my neighbours bins.)

What exactly should I do ?
Our local tip shut down last year and it's an absolute ballache to go to the other one.

We had this issue with a neighbour over the backstreet from us, the next street along. They threw dirty nappies over their wall, for waste and anything else they could find. Rubbish was never bagged up and their bins were overflowing constantly with mess piled up against the wall. We live in a very nice area of town and to be experiencing this was awful. The neighbours on either side, myself and about 6 of our neighbours reported them to environmental health. We had rats and the rubbish was attracting seagulls which attacked anyone and we couldn’t use our gardens. They were watched once reported and a case file made. The neighbours on either side found out they were renting and didn’t own the home and they were eventually evicted. This was a long process but about 12 neighbours in total made a huge noise about it. It’s disgusting and a health risk.

I had 2 massive wardrobes that came with loads of cardboard. Although I’d packed it neatly beside the bin, (I was new to recycling) they wouldn’t take it unless it was in the recycle bin. So I spent a few hours jumping up & down on it, & added a bit of water to the tougher cardboard. I managed to wedge every bit of it into the small recycle bin, with the help of a stick to podge it down. How they managed to get it out I’ve no idea, but they did.

So if I can go to all that trouble, so can they. Maybe I’ve lead a sheltered life, but I hadn’t had that much fun in years.

What really pisses me off though is not being able to put some things in the bin. Yet it’s OK to put dirty nappies & dog 💩 in there.

I must say that I could go 4 weeks before my ordinary rubbish bin needs emptying.

We don't even have wheelie bins! 3 black bags a fortnight and that's it