To be angry at my neighbour for putting rubbish in my bin? *title edited by MNHQ*

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I'm a perfect recycling saint (and we have a real fire) so I normally have space.
My next door nemesis is trying to kill me and the planet by not doing ANY recycling.
ANY!
Not even dog food cans.
Now the cheeky mare is putting his ginormous black bag of doom in my bin on collection day.
And it gets worse.
He doesn't even push it down so the lid doesn't close.

If I get a yellow card from the bin men he had better run....

I confess to once putting our rubbish in the neighbours' bin.

In my defence, they had moved out and left the bin out the front.

I don't think we can be fined for not shutting the lid. However, they can and do refuse to empty the bin if the lid isn't shut properly, or if there's recyclables in the rubbish/rubbish in the recycling, so I'd be really annoyed if someone caused our bin to not be emptied. We have fortnightly collections, so if one is missed that means rubbish hanging around for a month.

Hide in the bin and jump out with a mask on

PS, I am also in a terrace with no front garden. We keep our bins round the back (even though that means trekking to the end of the row to go round the back) and only have the bins out the front when they're due to be collected.

Are you serious? Rubbish goes in bin. End of. Who cares if it goes in your bin. Get a grip.

Spoonful, did you read the posts properly? Some people get fined or their rubbish not collected if the lids not down properly or there is recyclables in the general waste.

By filling up someone else's bin, you are not allowing them to dispose of their own rubbish.

It would be nice if people would RTFT before coming out with the ever-helpful "get a grip".

well you could be done for murder...

Crohnic We could have keep ours in the back garden, but it would have filled the entire garden.
However my argument was that the grill in the street over the cellar window was ours, and therefore if I'm keeping my bins on the grill then they are still on my property. The pavement was very wide and even with the bins there, there was plenty room to get past with a pushchair etc.

Still we've moved now so the bins are now someone else's problem.

YABU for referring to a male neighbour as a cheeky mare. A mare is a female horse, hence "cheeky mare" has to refer to a woman. Just call him a bin-stealing fucker and have done with it.

YANBU about the stabbing though. He has it coming, the cheeky m.....onkey.

Ah, that makes sense pipbin I was thinking it was like my SIL's where the door opens on to the pavement and leaving the bin out there blocks half the pavement- though even if the pavement was wide it's still a potential hazard for anybody who is partially sighted. But surely nobody should be walking on the grill so that's not counted as 'pavement'.

I live alone now, recycle like mad so my bin that is emptied every 2 weeks is often only half full. I am such a wonderful person that I texted my neighbour (whose bin was overflowing) and told her to use mine. (Gets back to polishing her halo). Really annoys me when people use without asking but do agree that it's ok to use other peoples when the lorry is coming up the road

My neighbour put a bag of recycling in our recycling bin - the bag was black & tied which is guaranteed to get the Bin Police on your case pretty damn quick.

I threw the bag down his drive & it landed on his door mat.

He hasn't done it since.

If I were you, I'd take his bag out & stash it until after the bin has been emptied & then give it back to him.....

I got home this evening to find my bin has been put out for the morning. I assume the neighbour's done it and put a bag of their rubbish in, as it's not a recycling week, and I don't have enough rubbish to go in anyway.

Don't really care. It's not inconveniencing me in anyway, and from what I've seen, he does still separate the rubbish into my separate bins. If I leave before it's been collected in the morning, there's a good chance he'll have put it back before I get home in the evening.

However, if he were just dumping stuff in either bin willynilly, not separating, and the council started complaining, I would start whinging about it then.

I don't mind if someone asks if I have space, but since I usually put the bin out the night before since they can come anywhere between 5am and 10am, I'll often take another bag out in the morning if they haven't been yet, so I expect that there's enough space in the bin to do so, not filled up by the neighbours. You can get a second bin for about $100 per year here which is collected weekly, so no reason not to have another one if you have that much waste.

The bin guys here won't take the bin if the lid isn't closed properly, but if you run out when they're coming down the road they'll empty it, let you throw a few more bags in, then empty it again.

That is cheeky! Why wouldn't the garbos take the bins if they were slightly open? Our wheely bins are picked up by a thingy attached to the truck and are picked up regardless of how open the bin is

Because if the lid is not fully closed, rubbish can spill out in the process of lifting it up and then the guys have to get out of the truck and clean it up which is not only a waste of time, but also a potential hazard for them.

Thanks Spoonfull but I do have a grip already.
A grip on my hard earned cash.
Just to clarify for ya they don't take bins with lids ajar here and if they were to look in said rubbish they would see next doors tins and thus fine me.

Hence needing to escalate situation by murdering him really hard.
To avoid yellow sticker.

Bins are serious round ere.

My neighbour is a step up from this... not content with filling my other neighbours bin with his junk he has actually taken mine into his garden to use!! I'm just working up the courage to go and reclaim it...

Bk1981 - just go in his garden and take your bin and then make sure that you write your house number on the bin in huge letters. My neighbour took my bin into her garden on bin day, as soon as I saw it over the fence I let myself in her garden, emptied her rubbish and took my bin back to my own garden.

I don't understand how people can say "it's just a bin", everyone has their own bin and I don't want their rubbish in mine, it might not have been bagged up properly and leave a trail of smelly mess, it might not fit in and cause my bin to be left unemptied due to the lid being ajar etc etc.....

The ones who say it's just a bin are likely culprits of stealth rubbish deposits.

Forget neighbourhood watch it's clear we need bin watch.
I'll ring Chris Packham.