Somebody Has Stolen My Wheelie Bin

[strawberrisc]

WTAF? The council are going to charge me £38 for a new one!

We bought a new build, recurrent big bins were free, general wastebin was £25. They can’t charge for recycling yet in our area asdome folk might say ‘ah just leave it’and not bother to recycle. At least of bins are free they’re more likely to be used.

It will either be one of your neighbours or a kid that nicked it to set it on fire
Happened to me when I lived in village of doom as I called it..this family of cretins took against me for no reason, Stole my bin and breaking my car windows every few weeks

If it's a green one, there's a stray, unclaimed one in our street.

I frequently have to liberate our blue bin (paper recycling) from the house two doors away. I don't think it's them. I think our immediate neighbour's daughter, when she retrieves their own bin, pulls in one for the other house too - without checking the 8-inch high numbers on the front to see that it belongs to us.

We do pull our grey bin (non-recyclables) in immediately after emptying. Our bins were shrunk to half-size a year ago, but we were granted a bigger bin due to additional waste from our disabled son. We retrieve the bin very quickly so that nobody else steals the larger bin!!

Is it definitely not that someone has taken it by mistake?

One of ours disappeared once-it had been snowing so we could trace it & take it back

Lol @ it’s a bin not a Fendi bag!

Our general waste bin went missing and it took 6 WEEKS to have a new one delivered. We didn’t have to pay though.

My brown bin - with my number clearly marked on it - was stolen once on collection day, was told by council to wait a week before ordering a new one (at my expense) in case it turns up. It did! About 4 days later, half full of someone else's beer cans/bottles and a cf note on top saying 'Thanks' !! I was happy to have my bin back but fuming because I had loads to go in that bin myself and it's only collected once a month! I had to sneak rubbish into neighbouring bins come that collection date!

Wow. They only make us pay when we've obviously damaged the bin (like our neighbour who emptied his bbq into it :D )

I had my bin stolen once, it had my number on it, massive number, I found it several doors down so I took it back, wheeled it to my back gate and left it there. 10 minutes later the cheeky fuckers came back and took it again. I went back out and took my bin back again, this time locking it in my garden.

Where I used to live it was a cul de sac and the bin lorry wouldn’t go down it so we had to wheel our bins to the top of the road. Bins always went missing, always. You had to bring your bin in ASAP or it would be gone and not seen again for a fortnight.

When we moved to our new house I knew it was a good area as my house had been empty for about 10 months before we moved in and nobody nicked the bins!

All our bins (8 neighbours) were stolen. A v weird person had a v organised bin stealing operation.

There was a rumour that they were used for burglaries, that the thieves would load everything into a wheelie bin then wheel it away.

Sometimes the bin lorry eats them. My friend’s bin was missing after the lorry had been round, and she checked her cctv - the bin had jammed in the grabber mechanism and gone right into the lorry, then the grabber swung back out empty!
The council laughed when she phoned them, and said it happens more often than you might think. They delivered a new one free of charge.

Our wheelie bin was taken from our back garden once when it was half full. I can't imagine what the theif. Wanted it for

wateroffaduck I had the same. 4 doors up new neighbours thought they’d have mine cause I was out at work. Despite it having my door number on in sharpie and the road name. Fuckers.
So I went and retrieved it- she came out hollering at me and when I shifted her attention to my address on bin she shrieked that I’d done it there and then.
Fuck me but then she called the police and accused me of theft. Of a bin. That she had stolen from me.

Showed police the cctv footage and they read her the riot act 😂

Bloody annoying OP we moved into a renovation property from a deceased estate - the kids nicked all three of the old bins phoned the council who said regardless we need to pay for replacements over £100 for all three - we did that and then two of them got nicked again by the builders I have kindly deducted the amount from their final payment. Managed to get a replacement for one and then a neighbour who thought we had not moved in "borrowed" it. When I phoned the council for the replacements the lady laughed and said I should padlock them - how the actual f@@@ I would do that I don't know 🤷‍♀️. Beggars belief.

My husband has managed to reverse over our food bin twice! I have had replacements for free both times...may have said that we found it like that

My green bin was stolen and set on fire at the end my street The police were involved because it had been used to set fire to a car. They gave me a crime ref no to give to the council and said I shouldn't be charged for a replacement but they still charged me £25 even though it wasn't my fault

Someone stole my paper recycling bin. It made me look at my neighbours very differently afterwards as we had just moved in to a brand new house

Mine even had our address on a smiley emoji

When our wheelie bins were issued (2015) after they were distributed, but before the first collection, a nice man in a hi-viz came around with a machine and recorded the chip ID against our property.

Now I don't know if it's implemented, but I know it's possible for the bin lorry to read the chip as it lifts the bin.

I know this because 20 years ago I worked for a company that designed a system to charge bin owners based on the weight of their bin. System worked as intended, but political machinations prevented the rollout.

One of our first indication our neighbour, in our first bought house, was going to be trouble was her swapping their very broken to point not usable red box for ours with number on then nicking all the replacements we’d contact the council and they’d left on our drive.

She then stacked them under her kitchen window as if daring us to take one - we did when she was out - which she then nicked.

We spoke to recycling people they were happy to take the items from another container and we had plenty of boxes so did that. They then changed the system and the red boxes became redundant – she then complained she had all these red boxes she couldn't get rid of.

In case it’s useful for anyone.

You can get great bin labels from amazon. Your address in black type on white labels.

I had to resort to this as when collecting her bin my neighbour would always choose the cleanest bin which was never hers. even though I had our address written in sharpie inside the lid.

By Stickerzilla

A lot of the houses here are illegally overcrowded. There are too many bin bags for one small household bin to take and our bin men don't take bags.

With my bins prominantly painted with my door numbers (after some B@$£@€&$ nicked mine. Twice) I keep finding random bags and other shite in my bins.

I’ve had two stolen, with name labels. Short of tracking the fucker I’m not sure what else I’m meant to do.

My food bin has literally just been run over by a lorry driving on the pavement so I’ve had to request a new one. It took over 6 months to get a new one last time it got damaged by the bin men.

It’s almost more annoying when they get nicked with your name label as it’s another thing to replace

You can purchase them on amazon