To put my bin bags with my neighbours bins?

[NameChange2017]

Today is first rubbish collection since Christmas so the council will take 2 additional bin bags along side standard grey rubbish bin.

We have very young twins and get no extra bin allowance, so it's one small grey bin which is collected every 2 weeks. The nappies alone fill this weekly.
I normally go to the top once a week with a bag but I've not been well.

We now have our bin on the kerb with 2 additional bin bags, but still have 2 extra bin bags.

Options are

1. put them next to neighbours bin (they haven't put any extra bags out) they have already gone to work or I would have asked. I don't know my other neighbours.

2. wait for my bin to be emptied then fill it straight back up and have no bin space for 2 more weeks

3. ask the bin men very nicely

4. just put them with mine (so 4 in total) and hope they don't mind

I would put with my neighbours. If they have already left for the day and you feel you should ask then perhaps just pop a note through the door for when they get back. I have messaged my neighbour on Facebook before to ask if I can use her drive, etc

We also have twins in nappies and have fortnightly waste collection but we were told we weren't entitled to a bigger bin - had to have a household of 5 apparently!

I would if on the day and certain no one was home. I have rtft by the way I know it's happened now. But New Year's Day I went to empty my rubbish (it got collected yesterday) to find my next door arseholes neighbours had filled both my bins despite knowing my kids are both in nappies.
I went nuts. Not confront them nuts (I'm not stupid, they'd love the confrontation and chance to cause grief) but put the bags of crap rubbish from the party that had kept me up to nearly 5am by the kerb. Then used my bins. They were overflowing from our stuff the selfish pricks, if they do it again I'll have words. Passive aggressive words 😂
I'd ask if possible but on the day and no ones home just do it. It'll be gone before they come home most likely anyway

Emptying nappies in to the loo is a great initial step for potty training too. DS loved flushing his poos away!

Brightsmoke, good point about the Council ownership, although it isn't that way everywhere. My borough makes households buy their own bins, so people nick them from the next borough over (outer London). My borough hasn't even come out the winner from this policy, since I've bought a ginormous bin, and the rubbish people have to take its contents!

I wouldn't think twice, it's not as if you were putting them in their bin. Though I also would have done that too, if it was an option, and they were not there to ask

NameChange17 is it worth dropping a note through the neighbour's door to explain what you did thanking them?

I only ask because we don't necessarily fill a 30l sack each week (though have a mountain of paper/card/glass/plastic).

We don't get rubbish bins, but I wouldn't object if a local neighbour was clearly going to struggle for the next few months. We have a similar unofficial arrangement with garden waste bins.

I think people need to understand that bins are the councils, they don't BELONG to each person/household. It's not 'their bin', so don't have any guilt about using them

Well, it depends, doesn't it? I used to live next door to a house-share where the tenants never separated their rubbish and constantly forgot to put their bin out, so it didn't get emptied. That obviously left them with excess rubbish on a regular basis, which they chucked in our 'general' bin without asking.

Our bin was then overflowing, so the bin men wouldn't take it and we had nowhere to put our own rubbish. We had a choice of either going through a stinking bin to remove their gross seeping bags of rotting food waste before putting our own rubbish in there, or having to drive all the way to the municipal tip with reeking bags of crap in the boot. Sorry, but no, that's not OK and anyone who does that should feel fucking guilty.

On another occasion they put bags of food waste in the 'general' bin that was only collected once every three weeks, at the height of summer. I discovered this when I opened it and found it absolutely heaving with writhing maggots. Also, the smell was unbelievable - you'd have thought there was a dead body in there (I even checked...) and bear in mind our bins had to be stored right under our kitchen window. Absolutely rank.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not fussed if someone pops out on bin day and puts something in one of our bins when there's room - but only if there's still room for us to put our own rubbish in there, and only if they put the right bloody stuff in the right bloody bin.

I should add to my previous post that I would have absolutely no problem with what the OP did; she was clearly not causing anyone any bother by putting a couple of bags next to a different bin. :) I can imagine that disposing of that many nappies every week must be a constant challenge.

Sorry Dolly, I did mean to say on bin days, obviously if a neighbour is constantly filling someone else's bin constantly before bin day, then that definitely isn't acceptable.

And, I stand corrected Pluck, I didn't realise some councils didn't provide bins, how odd!

I wish they were at an age when they had poo you could flick down the loo - it's still very much chicken korma and mustard seeds!!

Thanks all for tips x

We were never entitled to a bigger bin with 2 in nappies, like you I went to the tip regularly! Such a pain!

I'd have put bags with neighbours :)

Why can't you go and talk o your neighbours about it? one neighbour is constantly using our bin for some reason and it pissed me off big time. We would still let them use it but why take us for a ride like that? Some weeks we might say no as we have a big party or guests staying over. It's my bin ffs. Go and talk to them first. I am sure it is better this way.

Our next door neighbour has chucked a bag in our recycling bin . I don't mind sharing our recycling bin if they need to chuck a few cans/jars in there, but it was a plastic bag full of general rubbish because their general waste bin is full!
Our other next door neighbour died a couple of months ago. The other NDNs now keep chucking general waste in the recycling bins that he used to use. When a new tenant moves in its probably us who will get the blame if their bins are full and won't get emptied. This week I managed to put some cardboard on top of the rubbish they chucked in so the bin men took it without knowing what was underneath.

Oh sorry I forgot! In your case OP I don't think you're unreasonable as you won't be causing your neighbour any inconvenience.

Valentine RTFT or atleast my OP. They had already left and I was never going to use their bin - just put two bags next to it on the public verge as each house was allowed two sacks in addition to the bins this week and they hadn't put any out.

Sorry. I read your OP only and didn't understand it seems.

At nine months shouldn't your babies pooh be more solid?

I think that the sort of people who use other people's bins on a regular basis are generally the sort of people who don't recycle and are quite lax with their rubbish management leading to inappropriate things poorly presented in inappropriate bins. Running the risk of bins not being emptied, contaminated bins and maggots. These people also lack basic manners, so a quick word with a neighbour, even when they use their bins regularly, rarely happens.

This is why people get upset. If the right thing was put the right way in the right bin, the 'owner' of the bin wouldn't get upset, especially if the neighbour said, the next time you run into them, 'Hope you don't mind me using your bin. The council won't give us another, even though there are loads of us.'

Oh, and with consideration for the needs of the bin owner.

No, nine months.

Just to add to this discussion, I've just had a conversation with my mother who is very upset - the other day, in the dark, she put her wheelie bin out. It's just her, so the bin isn't full. In the dark she made a mistake and put the wrong coloured bin out. The next morning she noticed her mistake and just shrugged and went to get the bin back in (as I said, hers only has a little bit of rubbish in it). She couldn't move it, because some neighbour had gone out in the night and crammed it to the brim with their rubbish bags. She had to pull the bags out to move the bin, one of the bags broke as she lifted it out, covering my mother in chicken fat, cream and a variety of unidentifiable left overs.

On other occasions the bin collection hasn't happened because someone has crammed so much of their rubbish into her bin that the garbage was jammed in there and the bin lorry couldn't tip it out, leaving my 70 year old mother to excavate the bin and take heaps of someone else's crap to the tip.

Please, if you are doing this, speak to your neighbour to check your system of dumping your rubbish in someone else's bin is running as brilliantly as you think it is.

Is it a standard sized 240L wheelie bin?
Struggling to imagine a weeks worth of nappies filling it!
Do you recycle?

You should speak to your neighbour op. They might not fill their bin and let you use theirs.
My neighbour next door when she got her kitchen redone knocked and asked if she could use the space left in our bin to put some bits in. When she cut down the bushes in her front garden again she asked if she could fill our brown bin (garden waste) We weren't using it that week so again we said yes.
Similarly if we asked her the same she'd happily allow us.

To the posters who have problems with neighbours randomly filling their bin, get a bin lock for it.