To throw half a rice cake into strangers bin?

That's what I'd have done.

some earlier mentioned attracting rats 😂😂birds around here wouldn't leave it on the ground long enough!!

@Magnastorm

hsve you even bothered to read the thread or just rushed in to post your opinion??

lots of councils wouldn't empty her bin with a rice cake in it.(instead if in the food waste caddy)

plus lots of people just don't want to have to remove food stuck to their bins, when they put all their rubbish in the Bug Bin in bags.

You must be unreasonable OP the majority of the great and good of MN say so. Let this be a lesson to you.

Although all opinions posted on here may not necessarily be those of the people posting them. Always remember this.

I like my bin to have bagged stuff only. Keeps the interior clean, in case I need to unload the bags and take them to the tip. I think I'm entitled to keep my own bin clean without people putting sticky stuff in it. We're in our 40s with 2 teens.

Bins are provided for the use of a specific household - plus, in our area you are not allowed to put food in the general bin, it has to go into the food bin. So, I think she was justified in asking you to remove it. You could have left the ricecake on the floor and a bird would have eaten it.

I think it was fine and wouldn’t mind you putting it in my bin. A bag of rubbish? Not ok. But 1/2 a rice cake?! Fine.

I had some school kids throw rubbish on the pavement outside our house. I stopped them and asked them to pop it in my bin rather than litter the pavement. They apologised and picked it up and used our bin. I told them they’re welcome to use it if walking past rather than littering. It’s by far the best of the 2 options!

We don't have that rule either. But it's common sense. The bin stays fresh if everything is bagged. Mine is always bagged and the bin never gets grotty. The other lady might be the same, doesn't want mush in her bin.

Yabu. It'll fall into the bin and go manky, she'll have to fish it out. You should only put bagged waste in a bin.

Much sterotyping here; not all bin men are men

Then you are lucky to live in an are where arseholes don't throw random rubbish in your bin because you can't be arsed to take it home, and that you bin people are kind enough to empty bin with random shit in it

Such arrogance

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Your poor fingers

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I would be furious. I wouldn't know where it had been, what animal had peed on it, whatever, my bin is not a communal resource.

Or alternatively the OP could not chuck her litter on someone else's property.

Who wants to fish out a manky rice cake that someone else's toddler has dribbled all over? OP should have done it. It wasn't her property, she had no business putting her rubbish in it. Why should the owner of the bin have to clean up after her?

She and people like her are the reason the motion activated sprinkler was invented.

Getting aggressive over a small rice cake in her bin, really? Crazy!

I don't see the issue, it's not like you put a whole bin bag of rubbish in there. I've seen drink cans in my recycling bin before I didn't put in there, much prefer it to be put in there than left on the floor.

My husband had a women chase after him down the street once to hand him back a bottle she thought he put in her bin, funniest bit was, he didn't even put it in there 😂

and the bin men will only take bags

That must be specific you your Council.
Here the truck lifts the bin and everything empties into the truck. No binman is rummaging through what is in there.

Presumably, the OP would be aware if her council only took bin bags, or if it were like all the councils that just tip the contents of the bin into the truck.

But why would you do that, if you are standing right by a bin ?

Our bin men only take bagged rubbish. Any loose items are left in the bin to go manky, or fall out into my front garden when they pull the bags out.

I’d be pissed off if anyone put anything loose into my bin for this reason.

I'd have chucked if in the bin as only a rice cake.

We aren't allowed to but any food waste in our wheelie bin. We have small food bins.
I live near a school and people do dump their litter in our wheelie bin and our recycling bags.
It is annoying.

Why didn't you just crush the rice cake and leave it for the ants?

As for the bin - I can't describe how little I'd care if you put a rice cake in my bin.

This thread is mad.