To have put my rubbish in the neighbours bin

If I have too many bags. I will sometimes check the street to see if someone has put out their bags and has under the max amount, and then put a bag there. Single occupants often do have space.
I wouldn't mind someone doing this to me, so I assumed noone else would mind either.

I'd rather that than have people not having their rubbish taken and attract rats etc

I think it’s fine OP. Unless there was a dead body in the bag or something like that.

No harm done

She asked because her husband thought it was cheeky.

I don’t think she’s distressed?!

😂 On the contrary..

Oh don’t be ridiculous!

Do you find people are very unwilling to ever help you out?

She pays for waste collection, it would’ve been collected the next week if she couldn’t have put it in the other bin. It’s not something she’s not paying for.

Howwilliknow122

You have a certain amount in your account and then they charge by weight (I think it weighs as they lift!). I get it in a way but have been caught out once or twice when it was much heavier and so more expensive than the week before

Our bin men wont take extra bags and wont take overfilled bins either. We get constant emails about it.

It annoys me when my neighbour does this, as sometimes she'll put stuff in ours, filling it to the top and then when we go to add something in the morning our stuff won't fit 😠

If no one is using it as in your case, then fair game. I'd just be wary if it's actively being used.

When is bin day and we have extra we just put the bag next to the bin. They would rather take the bin bag off the floor then having to remove it from an overfilled bin so they always send messages to us don't overfill just put next to it. Black or recycling doesen't matter it always gets picked up if is on the kerb. I sm surprised people look for space in neighbours bins, I lived here 10 years and it never was a problem for us.

If my neighbour's bin is out for collection and not full, I do sometimes stick some extra cardboard, green waste or a bag of rubbish in there and I don't care if they do likewise. The only time I was annoyed was when the Airbnb guest next door put non recyclable stuff in my recycling (disposable bbq) and the bin men therefore didn't empty it (they take a look in before they hook the bin up).

Hmm. When we moved into our rental both bins were crammed with rubbish. I was not impressed! But it was bin day- so I guess just don’t get in the habit? And obviously don’t put anything too manky in there?

No, it's the opposite of fly tipping as she used a bin 🤣

She did trespass onto their property. To put it back (after she’d used it without permission, not as a selfless gesture), yes well done.

I would much rather a neighbour did what you did, rather than leave excess bags of rubbish outside that attract rodents and foxes who make a complete mess out of them.

Good of you to put the bin back afterwards, as it helps to make the house look occupied.

I could write a book about my bin problems with my neighbours. CF's doesn't cover it.

You've caused no problems for any one OP, non event.

I can't understand for the life of me why anyone would begrude their unused bin space to anyone. Keeps the neighbourhood clean and tidy and costs nobody anything? I guess we're all different!

ETA I think the bin was already out on the roadside for collection. I do agree that trespassing on the property would cross a line.

Well that's not what happened. The bin was on the road side and OP put some rubbish in 15 mins before it was collected.

I’m with your DH. Going on someone else’s property and helping yourself to using their bins, without permission (you don’t know them/ aren’t friends), is questionable / entitled. Embarrassing for you as he says! But I can see I’m in a minority 🤷‍♀️

I really don’t understand DH’s reaction. Trust he’s happy to make the tip run another time rather than risk the supposed public humiliation of getting caught using empty space in a wheelie bin?

Full disclosure, in the good old days before parking apps I would offer a parking ticket with time remaining to someone coming in as I was leaving, and many people did the same to me. I guess DH would be appalled about that too!

The service is fully paid - she’s presumably paid council tax as has this neighbour.

As long as your rubbish was properly bagged with no smells or leaks - your bag was “clean”, then doing this 15 mins before collection is ok.

I don’t like people putting dog shit in my bin. Even bagged, it stinks and the bin still stinks after collection. I also don’t want anyone putting a bag in the night before - as I may go out with a bag in the morning. And yes, obviously if the collection hasn’t happened for whatever reason, you would have needed to remove the bags.

we are on collections once every 3 weeks now. I have to manage this carefully and put small handfuls of rubbish into my car to shove in random bins like at petrol stations etc. if I’ve had food in somewhere like McD then that will stay in my car until I find a bin to shove it.

what other services do you use that you don’t pay for? I think it’s cheeky.

That's quite different to OP's situation.

I don't see how fines come into it when she put her rubbish into a bin correctly? It might not have been her bin (which is where the potential "cheeky" aspect comes into it) but it's still being correctly disposed of.