To take neighbours rubbish out my bin?

[gingertigercat]

Bin day tomorrow. Put one bin bag in the wheelie bin with the intention to add another after dinner. Went for a run came back and the wheelie bin was overflowing with newly added bin bags. Our new next door neighbours also overflowing bin had then been put next to our bin so I'm suspecting it's probably them (of course that might not be the case).

Bin men here are really strict and won't collect bins that won't close so I pulled out the rubbish that wasn't ours. I didn't dump it on/outside their property as I don't have definitive proof that it was them but just put the rubbish next to where our wheelie bin was (between both properties) and moved our bin closer to our house.

Aibu? If so, any suggestions on what I could reasonably do?

You might need to padlock it. Confrontation with those kinds of people never ends well, even if I would love to dump it all in their garden.

Our bin men are the same. If the lid isn't closed they won't take it, as it can fall off the wagon and cause injury or worse. It's in big bold letters on every leaflet we get and, with three-weekly collections, we don't take the risk. Once we found a neighbour had shoved a bag in, leaving the lid wedged open, but the binmen were due any minute so we crammed it down and it was collected. If it happens again we're padlocking. We'd be the ones punished for it.

But then I guess, with padlocking, you need to have it unlocked on bin-day, and shitty neighbours will still scurry over and wedge a bag in, won't they.

Round my way we all share bin space.

Put your rubber gloves on and see if you can tell whose it is. Then put it back on their doorstep.

It's a bit of a ballache, moving. Generates a lot of rubbish. Just pop round and warn them that the bin men won't take theirs. Extra points if you can give them directions to the tip.

Aeviternity you can get gravity padlocks that you can lock but when they are lifted and turned over by the bin lorry machine they open automatically.
So you don't need to open the bin for the lorry coming in the morning.

Yanbu to move the rubbish, how cheeky of them, they could have asked to use your bin!

Op it might be marigold time I'm afraid. See if there is any evidence that it is your neighbours rubbish, if so put it onto their property. Then buy a bin padlock.

Report the dumped rubbish to environmental/council and they will look through rubbish for the culprit. You need to stop it all in its tracks

Definitely not unreasonable to remove rubbish that's not yours. Where are you supposed to keep your bags that now won't fit, rotting away in your garden for another fortnight?
I had some cheeky bugger putting carrier bags of their rubbish in my wheelie bin. Fools put letters in which we're sticking up out of the bags so I got the bags out and left them outside their gate. We've got slimline bins now so I'm very territorial these days as even with all the recycling bins it can be a struggle to fit a fortnights rubbish in.

That's exactly my issue! I wouldn't mind sharing if there was room but with the bin overflowing it won't be collected at all and it means I can't put my other rubbish in.

I do totally appreciate what a pita moving can be but they've been here a couple of months now and surely it just takes a knock on the door to ask if I've got room/wouldn't mind or where the tip is? Seems a bit cheeky but it might just be me!

Since it's bin day tomorrow they probably assumed you were dons filling the bin particularly if it were out. I imagine they'd be mortified to know that they'd inconvenienced you

I imagine they'd be mortified to know that they'd inconvenienced you

Really? Do you honestly think that anyone who selfishly dumps their rubbish in other people's bins without even the courtesy of asking would be mortified about anything?

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Totally agree

Their wheelie bin and the removed rubbish hasn't been taken.

Mine has.

I think I'm probably going to have to suck it up and put the removed rubbish back in my bin before the seagulls get it and just be extra vigilant with my recycling the next fortnight!

Dont touch it. complain to the council

Don't put it back in your bin! The. You won't have space next week. Leave it all where t is. It was blatantly theirs in the first place

Contact the council they should come and collect it. It's flytipping.

I'd leave it too.

My dh puts our bin(s) out the night before - I often have more.rubbish to add to them in the morning so would not be happy if someone else filled it.

Thanks all. I haven't put it back and if it's still there tomorrow I'll give the council a call!

I had this with my neighbours and it was so heavy I couldn't move the bin! Our collectors won't take over flowing rubbish bins (which theirs was) either.

I went straight round to the ring the front door of the house but they never answered even though they were in the house. Since then I have padlocked the bin and although it is a massive pain in the bum it certainly has nipped it in the bud as well as them realising that I was NOT happy.