To be confused about this?

[AmazingBouncingFerret]

There is a house near me that every couple of weeks or so will put out their black bin with several bin liners stuffed on top with the lid half closed.

It never gets emptied, we've all had the stickers put on the bins to say "we will not empty bin unless lid is fully closed"

I saw it this morning, I was waiting to get past the bin lorry and I saw them deliberately not empty the bin.

So why do they still do it??

OK so doing it the once or twice fine but to do it so regularly is genuinely perplexing. Why can't they just store one or two bags in their garage on bin day until the bin is emptied and then put them in? Instead they have to put up with an over full wheelie bin and nowhere to put the next weeks rubbish!

I darent ask them so it's just going to be one of those things that I'll never know. And not knowing is annoying

I can't even bring myself to ask if anyone else does it because, frankly, it's such a silly thing to do I can't see anyone here saying 'yeah I do that!'

Some people are just stupid.

Rubbish should be collected on a weekly basis though IMO.

depends on the size of the family in the house and also the size of the bin.
Most people don't realise that you can get a bigger bin.

It could also be because they do not recycle.

"Why can't they just store one or two bags in their garage on bin day until the bin is emptied and then put them in?"

because if they are always two bags over it will just get worse.

They're having some kind of pitched domestic battle you don't know about and the stupidly-full bin is someone's passive-aggressive gesture? As in, 'look, you idiot, I put all that rubbish you refused to sort out, and it made the bin too full. Again'.

I can't think of anything else, except they can't read/can't be arsed to read and never cotton on why it's not being emptied.

Oh responses! We do get weekly collections crispy! It's the recycled stuff that's fortnightly.

I vote that it's a dirty protest against recycling.

Check if they put out any recycling next time that's collected, if they don't you know it's because it's all in the main bin (and not getting collected at all)

But BoneyBack, being a couple bags over is better than having a shitload of bags over because the bin is already full surely?

It must stink.. especially in the heat we've had.

I think you might be right TeWi. Surely they're only inconveniencing themselves though, they must be real stubborn fuckers!

I never work this out either.

My neighbours Bin Thieving Bastards had 4 of each kind of bin. They were always overflowing and they always put ordinary rubbish in the recycling bin.

I was deeeeelightted when the bin men came and took away the extra bins.

Now the BTBs have 1 bin that gets emptied and one recycling bin that stays full of festering shite I have to sniff everytime I walk down the road.

I am inclined to agree with 'some people are stupid'.

Yup. I have this image in my head of an old neighbour of mine.

If the council didn't do something she wanted them to do she just kept on and on and on until they did it!

And I'll bet the fuckers are putting their rubbish in your bin since theirs is full.

If I could lock mine I would.

I buy several slabs of beer and cider, on offer each christmas, and give them our bin men, it more than pays for it's self really quickly, as no matter what I put out they take it happily, saves me endless tip runs.

I always when spotting other's left rubbish on bin days, wonder why more people haven't sussed that the bin men just like to feel appreciated and like beer.

Some people are just really unaware or do not care, even though it is obvious to everyone else. Our neighbour put normal rubbish, eg food, in the clear recycling sacks and they were not collected. They did it every week and the uncollected recycling sacks mounted up. We had a word with them and they said it wasn't them, it was the flat above (we knew it wasn't) so we called the council who did collect the sacks and had a word with the owners instead.

When I first moved in I ordered new recycle boxes, the first week I put it out some fucker swapped it for a grotty old one.

I'm very territorial over bins, I once wrote "stop stealing our fucking bins" on the work ones because a card shop kept taking them. Didnt work though... but they soon stopped when I took their rubbish into the shop to them!

My neighbour from above got very upset because everyone (in our street of terraced houses) tended to keep their bins on the shady side of the house, it meant on one side of the street they were kept on the (very wide) pavement and she could see bins from her front windows.

She spent months (years, probably) writing to the council about this so that the council would send us letters telling us to put our bins in our back yards. Then it turned out she didn't even keep her bins in her back yard - she kept them in someone else's who lived abroad and didn't know! She was distraught when it was forcibly suggested she put them in her own garden (the way she had just made everyone else...) and started keeping hers in the street.

It was a beautiful piece of hypocrisy.

What's the problem with popping a bag in someone else's bin on bin day as long as it doesn't mean their bin is then too full. My neighbours and I do this all the time to/for each other.

I often do the walk of shame looking for half empty bins to add my extra bag to. Lucky for me their are 2 oldies in their own homes opposite who have very little rubbish so i can disposed of the extra there.

Oh I couldnt do the walk of shame. Can guarantee every week i'll have forgot to put the bin out the night before so I end up doing it in my dressing gown and my hair in a towel!

MrsKeithRichards Nothing wrong with that, on bin day, if you have good relationships with the neighbour and they don't think that you are a massive twat who once stole their bin for 2 weeks when they had a 4 month old baby and you already had 4 bins.

oh i have no shame and am quite happy to do my bins in dressing gown or even pj's

I had an on going extra bag saga. My big bin kept getting nicked. Council replaced with a small bin. Called council. Said would take two weeks, and to just put bags out. For nightly collections so two weeks rubbish still no bin.

Bags not collected.

New bin was small bin. Called council. Said another two weeks. Pointed out excess rubbish. Was told put as much as possible in bin and would be collected.

Not collected.

Big bin finally arrived. Put both bins out both emptied. Council came next day collected small bin. Normality resumed. For 3 days. Then came home and bin was gone .

Gate had been unbolted and bin had gone. Called council. They'd been tipped of I had two bins and had taken the extra .

Was told I'd get my bin back.

In two weeks.

Then my head exploded.

Our binmen won't empty a bin with a half-open lid stuffed full with black bags, but will take any number of full black bags placed at the side of the bin. Provided the lid is fully shut.

All our bins are fortnightly and ours is never full because my obsessed DH spends hours sorting (and moaning about) the recycling!!!

perhaps they are focussed on other things , ?

"I often do the walk of shame looking for half empty bins to add my extra bag to. Lucky for me their are 2 oldies in their own homes opposite who have very little rubbish so i can disposed of the extra there. "

Here you get a bin depending on household size!

We´re actually under capacity as we are a family of four & have the bin size from the couple who were here before.

It´s big enough.

We put in three or four bin bags (20l) per fortnight.