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CFs keep putting rubbish bags in my green waste bin

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MayWelland · 10/01/2025 01:14

What would you do?

I live in an area with a three-weekly black bin collection. It’s a bit annoying, but mostly it works ok for us: we recycle loads, and if the bin gets full before collection day, we just nip to the tip.

But every week on bin day, someone on my street keeps putting their extra rubbish in my green waste bin. It goes out every week, and every week I come back to find that this cheeky fucker has put a black bin bag full of shit in my bin, leaving me to deal with it. Putting it in my black bin is annoying as it’s huge and takes up loads of space in my bin.

They’ve been doing it for weeks. Last week I was off work so I ran like hell to bring the bin in as soon as the bin men had emptied it. But this week, they’ve tried something different and put the rubbish into the green waste bin before it’s even been collected, meaning that the bin men wouldn’t take my bin this week.

I live in a terrace and the bins go out through an alley and onto a side street, so I can’t physically see who is doing it.

what would you do? I’m getting annoyed now

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UncharteredWaters · 10/01/2025 01:21

Open the rubbish bag and you’ll usually work it out.

Alternatively - post of your street fb if there is one, saying it’s happening, you’ve now seen then and you’ll dump it back through their door and post the video on Facebook - fear will stop them!

raggedbottomjeans · 10/01/2025 01:23

Ask the council to come collect the green waste bin permanently, take your garden waste to the tip yourself or burn/compost it depending on what it is. These 3 weekly bin collections with tiny Wheely bins just don't work. I recycle, but even so, if I need to throw out something extra and largish that isn't recyclable at the kerbside (no car so that's my only option for recycling) then my bin is full. Eg a knackered cushion. I'm single! How the heck a family manages I don't know. Well, we all know how your neighbor manages!

username299 · 10/01/2025 01:50

Hide out in the bin and catch the fucker in the act.

peacockbluefeather · 10/01/2025 02:11

I had someone racing out to put their rubbish in my bin after the bin collector had been. I got the bag out and went through it, realised who it was, and dumped it out front of their place. Heard a clunk, early one morning a week later, and they'd done it again! After my bin had been emptied! This time, I picked it up and walked it over to their front door and said loudly, this is your rubbish, it does not belong in my bin, etc. Never did it again. Weird.

Harassedevictee · 10/01/2025 02:11

I have seen other posters recommend gravity locks. Maybe google them.

MayWelland · 10/01/2025 07:47

I guess I was just really surprised that anyone would do that! But it sounds pretty common. It’s really weird to me

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peacockbluefeather · 10/01/2025 08:09

If you go through it, you usually find an address...

cantthinkofausernametoadd · 10/01/2025 09:36

Definitely echo PP saying to post this on your street WhatsApp or Facebook group and ask others to keep an eye on who might be doing this- word'll get round and the perpetrator will shit themselves.

Tiredmumno1 · 10/01/2025 09:56

Something like this -

gravity lock

MayWelland · 12/01/2025 18:57

Thanks everyone! I’ve bought a gravity lock and I’ll see how it goes. I appreciate the advice!

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