to remove my neighbours rubbish from my bin

[cjferg]

Live in a close with five other flats. Each flat has it's own wheelie bin out the back instead of communal ones on the street. Bins emptied fortnightly in rotation with recycling ones.

I was the only one to bother putting my bin out last week to get emptied. Last night I went to put my bin bag in but there was this HUGE bag of crap in my bin filling it up so I just lifted it out and put it on the ground as the other bins are all overflowing. Stuck a very conspicuous note on saying my bin was just for my flat.

Am I being unreasonable? I wouldn't normally mind so much but I had literally put one bag in so far and I never end up using all the space in my bin (there are only two of us and I recycle what I can.) But they hadn't even made an attempt to squash down the rubbish and it was all old pizza takeaway boxes and stuff. I really don't want to have to buy one of those cheapy combo bike locks for it.

Yup I've done this before. Opened the bin bag. Found who the rubbish belonged to and returned it to them.

Yes. Yes I am a lunatic.

Yanbu, well done.

I would have dumped it outside their door if I knew who it was. Nobody will mess with an angry pregnant lady!

If you don't fill your bin what's the harm in someone else putting it in yours? Better than it getting ripped open and mess everywhere

I’ve done this after next door had their last party- loads of beer cans in carrier bags. It went straight out and by the tree by the road- fuck off. My bin, my space. Also, just cause they’ve used their recycling bin for their other crap (garden storage!) don’t use my black bin for recyclables! It pisses me off. If it’d been in recycling I wouldn’t have cared 🤷‍♀️

Where we live, if bins are full, people will always put it in another that has room. If not, animals get into and it makes a mess everywhere.

I live in flats with the bins outside. Most of the other flats don't bother to recycle and stick their rubbish in my bin so I can't put my own bags in it. I bought a wheelie bin lock off of ebay.

I once lived in a small block of flats with 4 wheelie bins, but it worked out because none of us had much rubbish. So we just filled one bin up at a time and one of us took them out.
I suppose it depends on the neighbours though, I was lucky to live with nice people :)

It’s not the greatest example of good manners to dump your ins orted rubbish in someone else’s bin, but it’s worse to then fly-tip their bins back in some kind of judgy nimbyism.

we had a binspace stealer... as I pay for my bin to be emptied. knew who it was so returned it to their front door and knocked loudly. solved the problem for the 7 of us who had our small bin space taken up by someone else who could not be bothered to recycle.

If you don't fill your bin what's the harm in someone else putting it in yours? Better than it getting ripped open and mess everywhere

Probably because there's another week to go until the next collection and she'd quite like to have some room to put her own rubbish in!

If you don't fill your bin what's the harm in someone else putting it in yours? Better than it getting ripped open and mess everywhere

Because they've just been emptied and there's no room in it for the OP's rubbish?

OP said the bin was filled up.

I've removed bags when it was rammed full of crap and I had a bag of cat litter to put out.

In some places, if you put the wrong things in the wrong bins, they won’t empty your bin so you’ll have been 4 weeks without it being emptied. You can get warning letters, your bin taken away, and at one point some councils were issueing fines but I’m not sure that’s still happening.

Our next door neighbours started putting rubbish in our black bin (general waste), but they were putting in recyclables. Pissed me off when we spend far more time than anyone would want to making sure the bins are sorted correctly. Also, they overfilled it and left it so the lid wouldn’t shut which is another reason they won’t empty the bin here. Cheeky. Put the offending bags of rubbish in there front garden as noticed it before the bins had been collected.

*their

Is it really that important in the grand scheme of things? if you had room for it then leave it in there.

Yanbu. None of my neighbours in my block seem to put their bins out atm. God knows where all the rubbish is because their bins are overflowing. I've had to put a bloody lock on mine or they'll fill mine too with the hoards of it they have waiting.

YANBU
Good on you, OP.

cjferg since your neighbours aren't motivated enough to take their bins out then YANBU.

We have a similar system here, but as the bins are lined up from left to right (left being nearest the street where they have to be wheeled out to) I work from the farthest left bin so not as many bins have to be wheeled out, if that makes sense. They're never overflowing anyway.

Drill hole through lids and put pad lock on it