to be annoyed at next door neighbour's rubbish?

[mizu]

that they put into our bin?

Has happened twice now.

The annoying thing - apart from my unwillingness to confront them - is that what they put into our green wheely bin is recycling stuff.

1st time was just after last Xmas and they put loads of cardboard and AN OLD KETTLE into the top of our bin as theirs was overflowing. I actually saw the guy do it but was in the house at the time doing the dds beds and just happened to look out the window. Didn't say anything to them.

Then this Friday I checked the bin in the afternoon to see if the binmen had been and our bin is FULL (usually only a third full). There is a massive black binliner of cardboard in there.

Again didn't confront but DH and I emptied the bag (on the street in front of both our houses) and sorted out all the cardboard and put it into our recycling box. Knew it was theirs as some of the cardboard had been drawn on and had the girls' names on from next door.

Sorry so long but should I have confronted them or am I being silly? Keep thinking that I will def knock on their door if they do it again but don't want to cause tension.

Thanks I'll look into gravity bin locks

oh Christ, its a fucking bin.

Can't you just tell them, that your happy for them to use your bin, provided it's used correctly.

YANBU they should ask !!

knickers0nmyhead Sun 05-Sep-10 18:16:33

oh Christ, its a fucking bin.

When my neighbours did this, I used to take it back out and leave it on their doorstep. Cheeky fuckers.
Especially as we pay by weight!

Look,

If you had started a thread say....

AIBU to be pissed off that my neighbour came and had a shit on my front lawn in the early hours of this morning...

I would of said, yanbu, go and shit on theirs and see how they like it.

However, it is a bin. I myself got told to put any excess rubbish in neighbouring bins.

Can't see why you are getting so het up tbh.

Knickers - the OP has explained that the rubbish was stuff that should have been recycled, and that her council imposes fines for putting the wrong rubbish in
the bin - think that is a fairly good reason to be annoyed....

So she explains to the council then?

And,it has happened twice. Not as if it is every week.

Seriously... get a grip... its a bin!!!

YABU to be annoyed at the rubbish - it is not the fault of the rubbish!

you should be annoyed at your neighbors

I dump rubbish in the neighbors bin all the time. I do it in the dead of night when nobody can see! I have never been caught!

I also think it unfair that despite us paying top band council tax on a 5 bed property, we get the same sized bin as the people in the 1 bed terraces around the corner

So its ok to cost your neighbours money because you generate too much trash for your own bin? You lot must be fab neighbours to have......

it doesn't cost them anything extra in any case - do they do it by weight where you live or something?

YANBU

I despair of people who put up with that sort of behaviour. If that was me and I was dammed sure I knew who had done it that rubbish would be back on their doorstep in a instant with the bag split so that the rubbish spilled all over their step.

No excuse for that or for you putting up with it.

Yes, as I said, and as the Op said some councils fine you for putting the rubbish in the wrong bin, so clearly it can and does cost people money. You clearly don't care about your neighbours though.

Is there any way you could delay putting your bin out? Are you at home when the refuse lorry turns up? I am crap with confrontation of any kind so I think what I would do - if possible - is wait until the refuse lorry appeared at the end of the street and then think about putting it out. If this wouldn't work it might be worth having a quiet word basically asking them if it is their rubbish and explaining that the council could fine YOU for them not recycling it (you could even say that you had already been approached by the council and that you know it was someone else's rubbish). I understand what some others are saying about it being better off in your bin than on the floor, or that some councils are telling people to put it in other people's bins, but I think the fact that they are not asking is really rude. Where my friend lives, the refuse people will not empty a bin if the lid will not close - if it is 'overfull'. She has had a nightmare recently because one of her neighbours, in order to have their bin emptied, has been putting their overfill in her bin. She wondered who it was and finally caught them a few weeks ago. Bin wars - where will it end??

To all the posters saying 'get a grip', 'be neighbourly' or 'it's only a bin' etc

Well, lucky you as you clearly don't live in an area where your bin men open your bin, see what's on top and if it's a recycling collection and it's got stuff in a plastic bag, or it's 'other kind of rubbish' or 'non-recyclable' they won't empty your bin. And that's it for more two weeks.

So, please come back here, those posters and answer what you would do if you had two week's worth of recycling in your bin and a neighbour came and put something on top of it that meant your would then have a month's worth to deal with because your bin wasn't emptied for another two weeks.

I look forward to hearing your reply as it majorly pisses me off when people mess up your refuse collection through their own selfish needs.

I had some yellow tape put on my paper bin when the bin men refused to empty it as someone walking past had put a carrier bag in it. I rang then and explained and it got emptied the next day. no big deal.