To throw half a rice cake into strangers bin?

not a free pass to trample boundaries and use other people's resources.

Hyperbolic much ?

It's hardly 'public waste' that is going to stop you putting anything else in to your bin. Have you seen the size of a rice cake ? The OP wasn't bringing out a couple of black bags and filling the space in the bin.

But as was stated last time a poster put this, that might be the case with your council, but it isn't the same across the Country. If the OP lived in an area where this was the case, then she probably wouldn't have done that, but, for many of us, 'food waste' isn't separated out.

She overreacted but maybe it's a regular occurrence and it pisses her off. I live en route to a tourist hot spot and we have people dump dog poo, food waste, half eaten ice creams etc in our garden waste bins which is for compostable stuff and I've had to fish out. It's gross.

It's a bin fgs. And half a rice cake hardly a poo bag. Op didn't do anything wrong.

With a family of 5 and 3 weekly collections, there’s no space in my bin for public waste!

I do and I am normal thanks. Since I don't see it as leaving the rubbish for that household, you are just contributing to the council pick up. If it's left out on the street I think it's not unreasonable for people to use it.

I can imagine people whinging about teenagers throwing stuff on the floor when walking past people's bins so can't win either way!

She was totally overreacting, but I'd never put anything in someone else's bin.

It’s on loan to the individual household - let’s not be pedantic because no normal person thinks like this.

Our food bins are not tipped into the lorry. One of the guys pushes a big bin along the street and lifts the bags out and puts them in the big bin, then takes the big bin to the lorry. He wouldn't be picking up random bits of food added in. He wants bags he can lift out of the caddies. It is just horrible to see old bits of stray food imo. It makes me gag. Totally disrespectful imo to impose this on someone.

Being with small children is not a free pass to trample boundaries and use other people's resources.

Walkers need to take the rice cake, dog poop or whatever home to their own bin.

It’s a bin.

i don’t get the need to keep outdoor bins “clean and fresh”. It’s a bin, for rubbish. Owned by the council.

i would far rather people put their crap in my bin than litter- I spend more time clearing up rubbish from the verge outside my house than I should.

as long as you aren’t preventing me from using my bin (filling it with bags, putting to wrong stuff in), crack on.

even dog shit, please put it in my bin and don’t hang it from the tree on the footpath.

Technically it's the councils' property not the homeowners.

I do this sometimes and expect people to be funny with me but would they rather I threw it on the floor outside their house?

I've already said that people walking past put things in our bin fairly often.
It really is no skin off my nose.
I would FAR rather people put something in my bin than left litter on the street.

I'm completely with @alloutofcareunits

Who wants to fish out a manky rice cake that someone else's toddler has dribbled all over?
But why would anyone be "fishing it out of the bin" ? It will just sit there until it gets tipped into the bin lorry.

Absolutely!! Could understand if it was a black bag full of rubbish!

I just think it’s really rude to touch other people’s property and pretty baffled you needed to check on here. Thing is, the world is full of rude people so there’ll always be someone to say it’s fine. It’s not. Small rudeness but still rude. We’re a family of 5 and fill our bin. Can you imagine if everyone popped a small bit of rubbish in?

Why???
if she'd left it on the GROUND a bird would have eaten it

I wouldn't care if you put a rice cake in my bin, provided it wasn't the wrong bin to put it in. And I definitely wouldn't have shouted at you!

What does boil my piss is random crap in the Glass bin that says GLASS ONLY on it. I regularly find coke cans, milk bottles, chocolate wrappers, all sorts of crap. Then I have to tip the bin over to fish tlthe crap out and put it in the correct bin.

You wouldn't care if your bin didn't get emptied??

Yes, it's a rice cake, the birds would have eaten it.

In some places the council wouldn't empty the bin if they have a food waste system. Also, she may have randos dumping things in all the time- we get a lot of half-eaten takeaways in ours.

I can see how you did it though- mind elsewhere, looking after a small child, 'oh I have rubbish', 'oh here's a bin', so I wouldn't beat yourself up. Worse things happen at sea.

At least dog poo is bagged - not random food being chucked in, sinking its way to the bottom encouraging maggots/flies etc

@downwindofyou

try actually reading the thread!

It's a bit rude and technically fly tipping, but probably a better option than just leaving it. She was overreacting but you aren't really meant to put rubbish in other people's bins