to not want my PIL's rubbish in my bin?

[anonymousbrainsnatcher]

My rubbish is collected every two weeks. If you overfill your bin/have extra bags, nothing gets taken. We recycle a lot, but still pretty much fill our bin in a fortnight.

So today, went to put a bin bag in the main (should be empty) bin, and it is two thirds full - two huge black bags of rubbish. On closer inspection, I establish that this is my PILs two bags, and they are pretty much full of newspapers and cardboard etc ie. recycling, but mixed nicely with torn tea bags and other slightly messy stuff. They live close by and have the same bin collections as us.

I then had to spend 15 minutes opening their bags and fishing out the stuff that can go in the recycling in order to give ME some room to put rubbish in MY bin in the next two weeks before next collection.

AIBU to think this is rather cheeky and a bit selfish because if my bin is full, I have to take the extra to the dump! If theirs is full or they can't wait to get rid of whatever it is, shouldn't THEY go to the dump, or at least recycle what they can so that it fits in their bin???? MIL, who recently moved back into our county has regularly said she is not keen on the "new fangled bin thing" (It's been here five years). But she doesn't need to take it out on me!!!!!!!

I get on with PIL's very well, and don't want to make a big fuss, but am seeing them tomorrow and am tempted to say, in a jokey way, "oh, what was that about, eh?!"

They had gone away (I am going tomorrow to join them ) so my "moment in time" had kind of passed. But yes, if I caught them, or they were still around or whatever, then absolutely I would have pointed out the error of their ways.

But right now, today, I needed the rubbish in the bin, and they weren't around to berate shout at.

Even DH is quite cross, he got home and said "anyone else decided to fly tip on our patch then" - mostly unamused!

Just start referring to her as The Bag Lady :o

I'd have calmly dumped it back in their garden. Not said a word. And I'd do it everytime they did it in the future. I am a passive agressive bitch though

Just calmly explain what you had to do. They won't do it again if they know that you had to spend half an hour removing used teabags from their bag and flattening potentially recyclable items.

My xfil thought that 'recycling was a load of rubbish'. He thought it was a conspiracy dreamt up by councils to inconvenience him and make money out of him. god I miss that man.

lol cumfy, tell her there's a wonky trolly on the corner if she'd like that.

oooh you should take it with you on holiday! When you meet them, you can say "I have a surprise for you!!" and then dump it in their dinner

I want to know what you said, did they apologise?

That is really inconsiderate. But if you explain to them what you explained to us in your OP (that is: about the sorting the teabags and so on, in order to get enough space for it all to fit in your bin), I'm sure they will see the light.

Even if you don't care about "The Planet", surely the benefits for US of recycling are clear - do we really want to live surrounded by "rubbish"? And that's leaving aside the numerous, more "complicated"arguments.