To think just use your own bloody bin

[Thisnamechanger]

Is it unreasonable to hate passers by shoving rubbish in residential bins?

Our local council only provides a small outside bin, a blue caddy for food waste only that's shared between me and my neighbour. Everything else goes out in recycling or black bags. I've just put the rubbish out and was a bit to find the whole bin full up with people's litter....all wrappers and unfinished drinks and all sorts of crap which I've just had to sort amoungst my own bins bags and got covered in bin juice when the wind blew.

Am I being precious or is that not on?

Our bins are visible to the public and get used all the time. The amount of dog poo bags chucked in the wrong bin drives me bonkers.

More annoying is someone has stolen one of our recycling bins so now we need to go to the tip to take all of our Christmas bottles and plastics.

We have heavy duty blue plastic bags for recycling. After it had been emptied but before I brought it in (because I was at work) some absolute knob put their bagged up dog shit in it. That bag lives in my kitchen ffs! Fucking skank

The dog shit dumpers drive me nuts as well. Filthy cunts. OP YANBU.

Quite frankly, I prefer people putting their rubbish into my (relatively new) wheelie bin from them dropping it on the floor as used to happen (Our council only moved to wheelie bins a couple of years ago).
However, is there a possibility of moving it away from the pavement if this bothers you - I can't help but think people won't bother running down a driveway or side alley to put their rubbish in your bin.

YANBU. Our recycling collections at uni were always quite late and the "bins" were open plastic storage boxes. We frequently had people putting rubbish in our recycling bin as they walked past, so the recycling collectors wouldn't take it and would leave us sanctimonious fliers about separating our rubbish.

There's no driveway, just pavement. I live in the middle of London above a shop so the people tend to go in and buy their food then dump the rubbish in my bin even though there's a public litter bin just over the road

Yanbu. I’ve seen it mentioned on here but I think you can get a bin lock, which when the bin is tipped to empty in the lorry lets the rubbish out but otherwise you need a key.

We used to have bin locks.

My mates built a wooden bin store against the wall of their place instead. That was padlocked.

Dog poo bags in my recycling bin..Vile.

Can you get a lock for it or put something heavy on top of it.

Didn't know bin locks were a thing! MAN is bloody awesome

MN *

Our fucking neighbours crammed all sorts of shite into our already full bin. The pick up was late so I thought i’d nip out and stick the Half full bin bag in our indoor bin into the wheelie bin. Two extra bags had been crammed in and some dead flowers which should go in the garden waste bin ffs! Also I get pissed off that they use the whole shared pavement area for their bins on collection day. The only reason to do so is that the don’t use their drive and car is in the way of where their bin should be placed!! bin cheeky fuckery

I prefer it in my bin than in my hedge or on the street which is where most of hte rubbish ends up. There isnt a public rubbish bin for a good 2 minutes walk so using private bins seems the logical solution.

But I live in zone 2 and it never actually gets filled up with passing litter (cf neighbours is a different sory) so maybe if I were in the center of London Id be whistling a different tune.

Sounds like if it bothers you, the lock is the way to go.

Some arsehole dumped the contents of a hoover (looked like a builders hoover) and then someone else emptied their bathroom bin contents on top, including used san pro, into our recycling box, on top of our carefully sorted and rinsed recycling which meant that I then had to pick out all the crap otherwise they wouldn’t have taken our recycling (and try not to vomit into send recycling box).

The box was in the front garden, over a wall.

I do this, but only where there are no public bins.

www.binpin.co.uk/wheelie-bin-universal-lid-lock?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI2I-hiou42AIVxbDtCh2SrQCNEAQYASABEgJpqPD_BwE

These are bloody brilliant. I can't say it would be any good between you unlocking it for collection and when the bin lorry arrives but you bin will be secure the rest of the time. Well worth every penny and easy as pie to install.

I lived in a village that had grass verges outside the houses,
We had to bring out the wheelie bins for collection and leave them on the grass..No extra bin bags would be taken,,only what was in the bin.
I am not a good sleeper and was looking out of the window in the early hours to see my evil neighbour drag her bin out and then take a couple of bin bags and shove them into mine,
Before the bin men came next day id removed them and put them next to her bin on the grass,,CF

My neighbours cram all their rubbish and recycling they haven't sorted into my bin so I've no room in mine for my rubbish. They have been told several times and I've complained to their landlord. I get so angry with them. They are so inconsiderate. After Christmas is bad.

Oh my god, don’t get me started on people who can’t use bins properly. It’s not difficult! But the bottom line is they just don’t care and you can’t do anything with that kind of mentality.

I’m having a similar problem and haven’t got round to installing a bin lock but think it’s the only way to go.

But I don’t relish the idea of all the diy and drilling involved.

then someone else emptied their bathroom bin contents on top, including used san pro, into our recycling box, on top of our carefully sorted and rinsed recycling

That's grim!

crunchymint - why the hell can't you just carry your rubbish with you until you get home or find a public bin, like any decent person. I live closeish to a tourist attraction and our bin men will only take bagged rubbish out of our (normal not wheelie) bins, therefore if some passing slob puts their coffee cup, picnic rubbish, dog shit etc in my bin I have to pick it out by hand and bag it. People who do it are disgusting slobs IMO

and our bin men will only take bagged rubbish out of our (normal not wheelie) bins, Bins are designed to be emptied without touching the contents, we're all becoming aware of the problems of too much plastic and trying to reduce the use of plastic bags ... but you have to put a completely unnecessary plastic bag round your rubbish. Crazy.

meredintofpandiculation - not sure I would fancy unbagged food and bathroom waste sitting outside my house for a week or so. The foxes would have a field day!

I'll use my neighbours bin if I've no room left in mine but I'll wait til the bin men are about to lift it and I'm sure the neighbour doesn't need the bin space. They won't take bags but if I put them in a wheelie bin it's no problem. (We're one of the few counties left that have one all-rubbish bins.)
On a very odd occasion I'll have extra rubbish and neighbour who's only home once in a blue moon rarely uses his at all so I don't feel cheeky doing that. But if someone uses space intended for the person who bloody pays for it, or messes up recycling then they should have it deposited back into their doorstep!