To find this disgusting?

Leaving it open will encourage maggots in the warmer weather! Experienced this once before. Best to push it down as much as you can.

And what exactly do you expect them to do?

All you have done is moan but you havent given a single suggestion as to what they can do.

So come on, what is your solution?

Where we live the bin collectors won’t take bins with the lid open. If you need more than one bin you are assessed by the powers that be and it is decided if you can have one! Our poor neighbour got a letter because they didn’t put the bin the correct way round by their drive!

My neighbours are the same OP and with their general waste bin.
It annoys me because if it's windy then it blows across my garden as the lid doesn't close.
And it looks pretty grim too. I mean, I know the bin itself isn't attractive, but overflowing bin with extra boxes around it that pile up in a week is worse.

For those asking "what are they meant to do if the council won't give them a bigger bin?". My suggestions are

1. Shop better - buy things with less packaging
2. Buy less - what are you buying that needs so much packaging?
3. Crush your recycling so it fits in your bin better
4. Pay for a commercial collection if you are running a business from home that generates all that extra recyclable packaging and disposing of it through residential waste
5. Reuse some of it where you can, offer packaging boxes to people who ask for moving boxes etc
6. Don't miss a bin collection and end up with a full bin at the start of a collection cycle

YANBU OP and I thank you for posting.

People need to get real and stop living in the Dark Ages.

I guarantee none of these pilers-on do litterpicking every week and scoop the full nappies of other women's children off the street. If they did, they might be less keen to jump on with the snidey comments.

Full nappies deliberately placed in the path of traffic by parents.

People think it's absolutely fine to fill their bins to overflowing and leave it for some other pleb to pick up.

Mandatory food waste collections everywhere by 2026, no I really don't think that's going to happen Keir, is it.

The UK is still the dirty old man of Europe.

Rubbish being blown out would piss me off!

If it's a regular thing they need to do something about it. Although I was surprised by someone who recently posted a 'hack' on how to fit more into the recycling bin - she broke up the boxes. She actually stapled some parts down too 🤔

This 😅 It looks like this photo has been taken from a bedroom window absolutely miles away and then cropped. Who has time to pay that much attention?!

@Purplebunnie maybe they've requested more bins.
Maybe the cardboard box is full of other cardboard.
The OP hasn't asked. Just taken a terrible photo and moaned.

We have a second bin at no extra cost as there are five of us and everyone has a ton of Amazon packaging etc. I didn’t think you should pay extra bins

I can't tell from this photo just how big/small this bin is but you can ask your council for a larger bin.

Also there is cardboard in that bin, if that could be recycled (don't know if their council collect for recycling) then the lid would shut

So there are some things that maybe they could do

My neighbours are like this, but as they have no outside space they use my bins with my permission. I even bought an extra black bin to accommodate them. All they have to do is put their rubbish in the bin. They don't recycle so it's all in the one bag. Which they plonk in the blue bin. I had to get labels so they would stop, even though the blue bin lids have got "recycling only" stamped on their lids.They now do put the rubbish in the right bin, but I just came home to find a black bag sticking out of the smaller of the black bins so the lid wouldn't close, even though the bigger empty bin is right next to it. It's hard to believe some people are so stupid they can't use a bin, but they live upstairs from me. Perhaps they are related to your neighbours OP.

imagine taking pictures of your neighbours bins and putting them online to slag them off with other strangers.

OP I'm mortified for you

My bins always look like that because they are now collected bi-weekly when they should be bloody collected weekly.

Maybe they should just have a bonfire with it instead.

Living near tramps thats nasty to say you aint no better than anyone else.

Jog off love.

With you OP, other people rubbish is a pita, some of the responses on here are laughable. Some people are either skanky or wanting to pile.
I bet most wouldn't be happy about rubbish blowing around their street or garden.

Tbf my bin looks like that, with a household of 7 and 5 pets it's to be expected when they only get emptied fortnightly. And I have the biggest bin they do 🤷🏻‍♀️

They obviously can't be arsed to break down cardboard and recycle properly so I'm with you OP. Why don't they just buy a bigger bin or pay for two?

Do you live on my street op? 😁 my neighbour has a bin with no lid. She stuffs it full of recycling, the council won't take it because no lid. The seagulls/wind drag the top layer of rubbish everywhere. Rinse and repeat every fortnight.

Other neighbours don't have a bin at all. They pile black bags outside their house that are ripped apart by wildlife. Shitty nappies and sanitary towels all over the street for all of us to enjoy 🤢

@Singersong I actually agree with the OP - it is disgusting.
However....as I said - what does she expect them to do.
I live in flats so my bins are communal.
They are constantly overflowing. Wrong items in the wrong bins etc. Lots of large objects being dumped/fly tipped.
But I have -
Talked to the council.
Talked to the representatives of both the Labour and the Green parties when they knocked on my door.
Talked to neighbours.
Put up signs.
Complained loudly towards to sky.
Kicked rubbish out the way while muttering "ffs".
Dramatically moved recycling into the recycling bin rather than regular bin hoping the person who put it there will see.
Shouted "Oi that's a recycling bin and only for the residents of the flats" to random people who put their dog crap in there.
Maybe the OPs neighbours have requested bigger or more bins but haven't received any. Maybe they do religiously sort everything into the correct recycling bin - but they still have a lot.
Until then ....what ARE they meant to do?

So talk to them?

(Nicely)

Ask them to compact their rubbish down to stop it blowing away. Don't mention the smell, all rubbish smells, that's not on them.

Not something I would risk with neighbours who don't bother sorting rubbish from recycling.

The dustmen don't go there.

Is that a bumper golden wonder box? They could at least have squashed it, feckless idiots.

Neighbours are a family of six with an adult child often there too and theirs is like that after two weeks, not one, including when the youngest were babies. They have the same bins as everyone else.