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Bin twats

36 replies

LaLaLamp · 28/07/2017 00:42

Rubbish collection day tomorrow...I went out to put my rubbish out in my almost empty bin (live alone) and then managed to find a few more bits, and someone had filled my bin with black bin bags full of rubbish! Unreasonable in my eyes.

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MeanAger · 28/07/2017 00:43

Urgh! Any ideas who it was? I would remove the rubbish and leave it far enough away from your house so as to avoid you getting blamed for dumping it.

SheRaaarghPrincessOfPower · 28/07/2017 00:47

Work out whose it is, then dump it in front of their door.

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LaLaLamp · 28/07/2017 00:47

No idea! I would gladly help someone who had a full bin but feel its a bit cheeky just dumping it in my bin....who knows what it contains!

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Nettletheelf · 28/07/2017 00:50

Have you recently moved to fortnightly collections?

Do you live near a HMO?

Cheeky bastards. You might have to get one of those bin locks because you can't police your bin 24/7 can you?

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LaLaLamp · 28/07/2017 00:53

No i have been here nearly 4 years. What is a HMO>
?

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LaLaLamp · 28/07/2017 00:54

OOPS sorry misread...no always been fortnightly

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Nettletheelf · 28/07/2017 00:56

Sorry, house of multiple occupancy. Tons of rubbish from them.

Asked about the fortnightly collections cos when we moved from weekly to fortnightly this spring it triggered loads of clandestine rubbish dumping in unguarded wheely bins!

MadamePomfrey · 28/07/2017 00:57

HMO is a house with multiple occupants I think they are becoming really common near me developers take a 3/4 bedroom house and split it into multiple rooms for rent

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LaLaLamp · 28/07/2017 00:58

I might add that I live in posh Tunbridge Wells!! lol now I am being unreasonable!!!

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LaLaLamp · 28/07/2017 00:59

ahh Madame, plenty of those around here too

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RainaBaina · 28/07/2017 01:28

Ah, see, I think the night before collection is fair game OP.

Surely by this time of night they assumed you wouldn't be bringing out more rubbish so used your empty space. I've done it myself when desperate.

YABU

SheRaaarghPrincessOfPower · 28/07/2017 01:33

Raina, nope.

Hudson10 · 28/07/2017 01:33

Ooh see I'm torn. You say it's the night before collection and you have a half full bin and someone ditches stuff in it?
I'd let it go with a roll of the eyes as it'll be empty again in the morning.
Days before or the week before though? They can feck right off and I'll be wanting to know exactly who lol

justilou1 · 28/07/2017 02:36

Can you pull the bags out and put them next to all the bins and then watch and see which sneaker bugger tries to put them back in?

SequinsOnEverything · 28/07/2017 03:00

No way is bin space up for grabs the night before! If houses are creating too much rubbish they need to pay for another bin.

faithinthesound · 28/07/2017 03:07

Our bins all live in our respective gardens, and we have to take them out to the street on collection day/night. So, the general feeling around here is, if someone's taken it out, they're done with it. I admit to doing a little "shoinking" (our odd little name for it) myself when we've had particularly rubbish-heavy weeks!

That said, I DO wait until sort of, ten o'clock at night. So I do give every chance for people to use their own space before I put stuff in there. If the space genuinely isn't being used, where's the harm? Better people should do that than have manky trash hanging around until next collection day.

Meowstro · 28/07/2017 03:49

YANBU! To those saying it's the very night before bin collection and you'd assume that nothing else is being put in or in any case, they'll be empty tomorrow, why didn't the offender wait until the bins were empty to use their own?

I have this with my NDN at the moment. They are always putting their bins out, and I've noticed our bin getting full quicker than ever before with no change on our end, last week we had to wait 2 days to put the rubbish out because miraculously our bin was full 2 days before bin day. Usually it's rooting around the neighbours bins to find one with space the night before. Can never catch them but it does annoy me. They're OK otherwise as NDN go can't say the same about the other but ffs ask first and if I wasn't planning to put any more in, then go ahead.

I am actually thinking of getting a bin lock if this continues. Also doesn't help that I live near a bus stop and people put rubbish in there anyway, as do people who momentarily stop at the bus stop in their cars (is this a thing?).

Meowstro · 28/07/2017 04:08

faithinthesound Fair enough in your case people have to move their bins into place but imagine that were not the case. Say someone works odd shifts, gets home at 3am and wants to put their bins out because maybe they forgot or ran out of time. You would have got in the way of them putting their rubbish out, then they have to wait until the collection to do so and their rubbish has to sit around until the next bin collection instead. Is that OK because it's not your rubbish sitting in the bin a week?

Just remember, bin collections can be delayed or missed from time to time unexpectedly as well. I used to live in a block of flats where one woman was a known bin space thief. She put her bag in another neighbour's bin and the bin collection was delayed by days and it fell over a weekend, due to heat and the contents of the bag, the neighbours bin ended up heaving with maggots. The bin space thief was unapproachable and rude in all instances previously but I'd never seen the neighbour blow their top like that before...bin space thief didn't do it again.

TroelsLovesSquinkies · 28/07/2017 07:49

Get out your Marigolds. I'd open one of the bags see if theres anything identifying and drop the bags back on their doorstep with a note saying, you misplaced theses in my bin and I have returned them.

lottieandmia · 28/07/2017 07:53

Somebody else's bin is absolutely not 'fair game' the week, day or night before collection! The OP pays council tax for some other twat to think they're entitled to their own bin and someone else's? No way....!

pilates · 28/07/2017 08:00

If it is was a one off I would let it go, but be vigilant the next week.

It wouldn't be so bad if they asked.

ginjin · 28/07/2017 08:06

Our NDN adds garden waste to our food waste bin every bin day, but they also put them out for us and bring them in every single week, so I kind of feel they're allowed. It's annoying sometimes, because they put the bin out on the road at about 4pm the day before, and when I see it out it reminds me I've got a bit more to put in, but then they've filled it by then!

This week they went on holiday a few days before bin day, so they asked if they could put a bit in it before they left. I think they just think I'm organised enough to have put all my garden waste in the bin before they put it out...

Gunpowder · 28/07/2017 08:10

Someone nicked our wheelie bin once and it took ages (six weeks I think) for our LA to send us a new one. In the meantime DH had to take our rubbish bags to the local dump of rubbish and recycling point. After two or three weeks I was talking to our cleaner about what a pain it was (assuming gratefully that she was taking the rubbish with her and popping it in the public bin) and she said 'what's the problem? You should just put it in next door's bin like I do!' Blush

Gunpowder · 28/07/2017 08:11

*or not of

Lilmisskittykat · 28/07/2017 08:18

This happened to me. Single person so not that much rubbish at the time.. put it out and someone overfilled it. So they wouldn't have taken either of our rubbish.

I thought ok it out put it on the floor (side alley access) and moved my bin.

Worse then this can happen though mine went missing for two weeks about the time someone in the street was renovating ... not impressed

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