To give them their bins back?

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I live in a block of 4 mainsonettes, all bins are kept in the communal garden

Our black bin is only half full (2 adults and a baby) and one of our neighbours doesn't recycle and always has extra bags they can't fit in their black bin (I know it's theirs as they use orange see through bags and no body else does)

Went round to the garden this morning and found two orange bags and a bag of food in our black bin making our bin overflow

Was I unreasonable to remove them, dump them by their black bin and moan very loudly when walking through the communal hallway?!

Not unreasonable at all & I'm glad you've got your binlock sorted.

We get random people thinking it's appropriate to open the gates between our house & the neighbours' (end terraces) & walk down the passage - that very clearly leads to our back gardens & nowhere else - in order to dump stuff in our bins. Frequently the wrong ones, and like a PP our recycling won't be collected if contaminated & you get The Label Of Shame. Mercifully the rancid article who thought our recycling bin was the right place for the rubbish from their picnic had put it in a carrier bag (so I could hook it out with a crutch) & the bin had just been emptied.

Less mercifully, it was badly-tied & full of bits of chicken carcass, which for a strict vegetarian is just... beyond grim. I actually removed it to a nearby litterbin once it was decently tied up because while obviously our dustbin doesn't smell delightful, I don't have to worry about the by-products of decaying meat.

Our council issue fines if rubbish isn't bagged (recycling doesn't have to be) so I think it's REALLY shitty of people to walk past on bin day to use wheelie bins as public bins rather than just wait a few minutes. (And yes, my council has been known to be THAT petty.)

Our original green bin was stolen, but we ended up with a quite distinctive black-bin-with-green-lid. And quite striking number decals for it too. Nobody wants our dustbin though because it's the one we got when wheelie bins first came in & is thus smaller than [almost] everyone else's. For some reason neighbour with bin twice the size of ours keeps using it though. Even when they have space in their own. And they can't be mistaking it for their one, because of the size difference. (They also don't recycle. Grump.)