AIBU?
I know I wasn't BU, but did I go OTT? Dustbin related
winobaglady · 16/06/2017 23:17
Got home from work to find my dustbin hadn't been emptied. In fact it was fuller than when I left it in the morning and there was a note from the collection team telling me my bin was too full.
This is roughly the 4th time this year.
Seems someone removed one of my bags, put in one of theirs and put mine back on top, stopping the lid from closing.
I've been through the extra bag 
and worked out who it belongs to.
Just been round there, took their rubbish back and started to explain to lady of the house that what happened was Not On.
She said "not now, I'm busy" and closed door on me.
So I've left some of her rubbish on her doorstep, some on her lawn and the rest in the bag on her path.
Got home, sitting with a cuppa and it struck me that maybe someone moved her bag from her bin into mine and she had no idea of it.
Now I feel hot headed and guilty. WIBU for me to creep along and look in her bin, in case that's what happened? Or leave it and catch her tomorrow?
user1491810905 · 16/06/2017 23:23
Who the hell could be bothered to move it from her bin tho? I mean where is the motive?? She obviously did it, her bin was too full and she needed to get rid of her crap. I'd say you did the right thing. Though I'd have just left it on her doorstep, that would probably have been enough.
emmyrose2000 · 16/06/2017 23:35
Of course she did it. If she (or anyone) does it again, repeat what you did today and just dump it on their doorstep.
I'd also ring the council or whoever organises rubbish pick up in your area and lay a complaint about them not emptying your bin. Also tell them to deduct the cost of that week's non-pickup from your account. That may sound petty, but I know plenty of people who do this and it gets the message across to the council that their contractors need to do their job properly lest they want to have to muck around fixing accounts for such a small amounts.
blankface · 17/06/2017 00:02
Google for Wheelie Bin locks.
I'd be a bit dubious of using this one as this is their advice on how to pay. www.binpin.co.uk/
"Replacement keys for universal wheelie bin lid locksTo use debate or credit or card check out at Pay.."
If those keys are universal and a few neighbours use their locks too, it won't stop the OP's situation.
Hidingtonothing · 17/06/2017 00:06
She did it OP, she would've heard you out otherwise and protested her innocence. My NDN tried the same with our bin, I didn't go round just removed the bag and left it in their drive but it hasn't happened again since. Ring the council on Monday and report that someone flytipped their rubbish in your bin and overfilled it, they should arrange a special collection for your bin.
winobaglady · 17/06/2017 07:35
There was stuff in the bin addressed to her house, so the obvious culprit. I didn't get the chance to tell her she should be recycling.
I capitulated after I posted, and calmed down more, and went back round and picked up the stuff on her lawn, put it all in her bag on her doorstep.
She was still up, I must've looked a right wierdo, but I feel a bit less crazy bin lady now.
Will hopefully catch her later.
ElsieMc · 17/06/2017 08:29
You did right op. It was clearly her judging by her reaction. If it wasn't her she would have stood her ground and been a little indignant. At least she knows you know now.
Now you are stuck with your rubbish stinking in the summer. I hope you are emptied weekly and not fortnightly like we are.
ElsieMc · 17/06/2017 08:32
Sorry, I forgot to say I had a similar conversation with my Council recently and they told me that if they do not empty your dustbin (not recycling) they have to come back and do so. Ring them and tell them. It is not your fault.
I get the bin too full stuff as well and that is just grass cuttings from my lawn. I am only small and I can move it quite easily but apparently the burly dustbinmen may hurt themselves.
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