To throw half a rice cake into strangers bin?

Putting loose food items into a bin could mean the dustmen refuse to take anything and leave the whole bin un-emptied. Or the owner could face a fine/refusal of service.
You must know that as you don't put it that way in your own bins. She didn't need to be abusive but to politely ask you to not do that/take it out is reasonable.
You could've just waited for a street waste bin or taken it home really. It could be she's had issues with people filling her bins in the past. You can't be the only one who's thought 'oh, I'm sure it's fine'.

Nah, it's a bin. For rubbish.

If it was dog shite or whatever then obviously don't use a random wheelie bin, but for just a bit of rubbish? Crack on. Can't imagine how fucking petty you have to be to get upset about something like that.

Our bins cot £90 each for the general waste and green waste bin. Food waste bin was "free". Although, we do pay £2200 in council tax a year. Garden waste is £90 and then an annual payment of £100. Definitely not free here.

Get out of wheelie bin I mean.

I get annoyed with poo bags !!!!!
Take them home or put in public bin!

Ditto alcohol containers.

Something small like that not in the bin bag would annoy me. Almost impossible to put of bottom of bin and may be refused by Council.

Was it the right bin? If there was a rice cake at the top of my recycling bin they wouldn't empty it at all.

Take your rubbish home with you. 🙄

I know this isn't the point of this thread, but I can't stand this typical Mumsnetty response.

How on earth do you know what's going on in the woman's life? It might be that after such a terrible day with so many awful things happening, OP then chucks half a rice cake into this woman's bin and that is the final straw.

I would feel sorry for the bin owner lady, thinking she's probably going through a pretty tough time to get wound up about something like that.

Anyway, OP you did a pretty ordinary thing that most people have done once in their life. The bin owner lady got upset. I guess that's the risk/gamble you take!

If bins are owned by the council why did I have to pay £25 to receive each bin when I moved in? They belong to me. They charge new builds for the bins they receive.

Yabu. I never ever had the need to put anything in a strangers bin. That's rude. However once in I wouldn't route around to get it. I hope you apologized to the lady

You shouldn't have put it in her bin but she was wrong for overreacting, especially as you were with small children - it's not really that big a deal x

It's a bin. I genuinely wouldn't care about a bit of rice cake.

As long as it was in the right bin, I don’t see the problem.

Good point. And where i live, the binmen would refuse to take general waste with a rice cake on top as we have to put food waste in with garden waste. No food is to go in with general waste.

All that fuss over half a rice cake.
What a sad life.

Not sure I would want a half eaten rice cake loose in my bin either
We use binbags for a reason, we don't just chuck loose stuff in.

If she only puts bagged rubbish in bin then unwrapped food could stick to bin and mean she needs to clean bin. Was it a recycling bin? I personally wouldn’t put rubbish in a private bin. We paid for our bins over £100 (newbuild) they aren’t provided for free by council so are our property.

Our bin men wouldn't take our bin if it had a rice cake in it. They a proper jobs worths. Food waste goes in the food waste bin. I would have to fish out the rice cake and I'd be pissed because I don't want to touch someone else's half eaten food. Take your waste home with you.

Yes you were wrong but i wouldn't have minded if you'd popped it in my bin. Bins are owned by councils, not householders. But bins allocated to households are not for public use at all.

It's normally bags of dog poop i have on bin day - i would never, ever put dog poop in anyone's bin. And i think people would agree with me that it would be bang out of order to do so.

So the principle is the same. It's just the assumption you made that it would be ok without even asking her.

Bit like that recent thread where some folks think it's fine to let their kids walk along walls of private gardens.

When I lived in Edinburgh there were times when the council refused to empty my bin and put a sticker on it saying I'd put the wrong stuff in it because randomers had dumped stuff in it after I'd put the bin out the evening before.

It's a bin, you had some rubbish, it shouldn't be that complicated, but it often seems to be.