To throw half a rice cake into strangers bin?

Half a rice cake is hardly the end of the world, at least it wasn’t a cat you put in her bin!

Yeah - same here. Ours put stickers on our ‚regular’ bins saying ‚Please don’t feed me’ to guard against the evils of food waste such as half a rice cake 🤣

How embarrassing for the OP not to take it out when requested (before shouting following OP’s refusal). Just dispose of your litter in a public bin or take it home

Our neighbour leaves their bin out on the pavement because they're too lazy to drag it back around onto their property. I put my dog poo bags in it.

YANBU

First thought is surely it's not a problem but then I thought all my rubbish in bins is bagged so I actually wouldn't be happy about random loose items in there to maybe get stuck and get stinky.

Fuck sake I had to go back and read your opening post because judging by some of these responses anyone would think you had been fly tipping not putting a bit of a rice cake in a bin lol

Wow, some of the replies about bins and half a rice cake.

No wonder this country is filthy.

If it was on top of the bin bag, you could have easily taken it out without having to 'dig around '

Jesus, chill out everyone, it’s a sodding rice cake in a bin, but suddenly all hell breaks loose. Your biggest mistake here OP was posting this scenario on mumsnet, I’m actually surprised the owner came out of their house, according to everyone on here nobody even answers their front doors usually!

I hate when ppl use my bin.

Someone threw a vape and a half drunk coffee take away cup in my bin and now my bin is swimming in coffee-everything else is sticking to it.

Don't use other people's bins.

I would never use a strangers bin yabu

I would rather people pop a bit of litter in my bin on their way past that have it laying in the ground. I don’t see the issue.

Correcting people like this is terribly rude. You can buy books on manners if you need to brush up.

It’s annoying as you don’t know what they are putting in. At my old house I often had people dumping stuff in my bin that shouldn’t have been there. There was no need for her reaction though.

This thread is clearly split between those who have bin men that make this a big deal and those who don’t (or just don’t give a shit that other people have different restrictions)

Yes, same here. They just wouldn't empty it.

I've put wrappers etc in peoples bins. It's not such a big deal.

There are public bins for this reason. I wouldn't have been impressed with you, either.

I seriously cannot believe the number of people on here who care about a rice cake in their bin! It would be funny if it wasn't so ridiculous! ITS A BIN!!

You shouldn't have use her bin, my bin is stored in our residential car park and people cut through, it can be 1/3 full before I even take a bag of rubbish out! One rice cake seems inconsequential but it happens multiple times a day here! When we go to 3 weekly collections in April I'm thinking of locking my bin somehow as there won't be room for my rubbish

You are being very unreasonable. Our bin men are strict and will only take rubbish if it in a bag. They refuse to empty it if it has any loose rubbish .

At the start of lockdown I was working in the front room, saw a car pull up and starting emptying a ton of takeaway stuff into my bin. I opened the door, had the screaming ab dabs at them, made them take it all out, and they drove away shame faced. It was fun.

Given it was an alleyway this is probably the likely scenario for this woman

Mostly the bins are not emptied in our area. Someone walks up the road and lifts the bags out of the bins and puts them on the road and then the lorry drives up and the men fling the bags in. So any loose trash that people passing by fling in has to be cleaned out and bagged in order not to sit there for all eternity. Therefore, I think it’s incredibly rude when people use my bins rather than taking their own rubbish home with them.