To think that people shouldn't go over their bin allowance and should just do a run up to the tip instead.

We also have to book slots in South Wales. It started during lockdown which made sense, but now it’s staying. We are allowed 3 black bags per fortnight, and the can refuse to take them if judge them as too heavy 😒

Ah thanks lovely, I’m ok. I’m pretty much healed from surgery and chemo isn’t as bad as I’d feared. My hair is coming out so that’s going to need shaving soon. The hair has upset me more than the leg weirdly!
my neighbour is a dick of a human with the empathy levels of a rock. She also is claiming my cat trod in her newly laid cement on her drive and left a footprint in it. A) there are at least 4 other people in our immediate neighbouring houses with cats, how she can tell if was mine from a paw print I’m not sure. B) it’s clearly a dog print.
crazy woman 😂

We have one rubbish bin. Not even a black bin - it’s a 3/4 size bin. And it’s emptied once every 4 weeks. So two large refuse sacks to last a month. Been like that for 5 years.

It is fucking ridiculous.

Yes I'm also in Essex and know about booking for tip. Also our council have given us black bins to put black bags into which are collected fortnightly and hold 2 or 3 bags max. If bin lid doesn't shut they won't take nor take any extra bags not in bin

This.
Put a note on your fridge telling you to Mind your OWN Business. Then get on with life.

We had that issue, a lot of extra waste from having cats, two elderly, and the council gave us a roll of purple bags and allowed us to put out one extra a fortnight - as it was then, we have three weekly collections now, but it's three bags (four if we put out a purple bag), rather than two when it was fortnightly.

But as pps have said there is a wider issue in that a 2 bag limit once every 3 weeks is too small for lots of households (albeit not uncommon in more and more councils) and will lead to flytipping etc.

They don't have bins, the bin bags are collected from what I understand

If it was 2 bags I'd say you were unreasonable because what difference does it make? The neighbours on holiday aren't using their 2 bag allowance so why shouldn't someone else.

however as they've put 4 bags out then it depends what will happen to the 2 extra ones. If your on-holiday neighbours will get fined for putting extra bags out or they'll just sit in the street for 3 weeks starting to stink then yes, either report to council or just stick them back by the owners door.

You're being unreasonable, sometimes I see that people have put bin bags in my wheelie bin (once I've already put it out for collection the next day). It's affecting no-one adversely, the refuse is already due to be collected so surely it's a non-issue?

You are being unreasonable
At least it’s saved a trip to the tip
I think you have too much time on your hands TBH

So the scummy neighbours have just fly tipped a load rubbish outside elderly neighbours house that won't even get collected because it's not in a bin, and everyone telling you to mind your business... glad I don't live in their neighbourhood.

Yes you're right to think the neighbours are scum and right to try to protect the vulnerable elderly neighbours and right to report to try to solve the problem before it becomes an issue.

Depends whether the provision is sensible or not. For example (when my DDs are at Uni) we have the same size black bin provision for two adults that our neighbours have for a household of five adults and two children, which is ridiculous.

I understand why there are limits because it does encourage recycling but the 3 weeks is excessive and it's very arbitrary because it's 2 bags per house. Easy if you are a couple but harder if you've got a 5 people in your family and a couple of pets.

no you shouldn't put your rubbish out in front of someone else's house without asking.

No. You were assuming that everyone has to follow the same systems as you and that MN as a whole would agree with your judgemental "scummy" comment.

Now that it (the obvious) has been pointed out to you that refuse collection varies everywhere and that you were therefore implying that most of us are scummy, you are trying to backpedal.

Do you really have nothing better to do than curtain twitch to count how many rubbish bags your neighbours have put out?

How is 9t looking out for your neighbours 😂

Maybe the 'scummy' people are avoiding the emissions from an extra car trip. Assuming they have one and can 'just' pop to the tip.

seriously dude.

You're assuming everyone is the same. We don't get food waste collections. Recycling is every 2 weeks, so is the main waste. Well it was, bin men have been striking on and off since Christmas. Skip runs have to be booked and then it's certain days going on your reg plate. That's if you have a car

2 bags every 3 weeks is a joke. Giving a shit what your neighbours are doing is a bit glum man. Why don't you do them a kindness and take their rubbish to the tip if it's so convenient.

I can't believe how much rubbish some households have. We have one small bin bag a week, if that. People should have to pay based on their amount of waste, it needs to be incentivized.

I have never come across Bin Police before.

“Scummy people”
for wanting to get rid of rubbish? (What if they couldn’t get to the tip and had their shed or garage full of rubbish or things in their garden?! Goodness knows what you’d call them then)

thank heavens we don’t have limits.
3-weekly collections is what I’d be more likely to call scummy. I think I’d organise private collections, or move.

We don't have black bags, but a small black wheely bin for general waste. Most weeks it's more than adequate, my parents barely use theirs at all, but if one of us is having a clear out, we'll use the other's bin space rather than go to the tip. The bin men are coming anyway, it's probably more efficient and less costly for the council, as well as for us, to do it that way.

The extra bag people probably agreed it with your neighbours before they went away. Some neighbours are actually nice to each other, rather than looking for fault.

YANBU - Tell the bin men and report to the council as dumped waste.

With kindness OP, get a hobby.

Unless the reason for your extraordinary level of interest in this is because you had designs on their empty bins for yourself and are pissed off that someone beat you to it?

I honestly could not care less what my neighbours have in their bins. Do they even have bins? The only bins I pay any attention to are my own.

I can't drive so I can't do a tip run. Sometimes I pop a bag in neighbours bins if there is space once they've put them out. Tbh aslong as all the rubbish gets taken I don't know why you would complain.