To be annoyed that someone's put their rubbish in our bin?

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Our bins get emptied once a fortnight as the council is trying to get people to recycle. dh put the bin out this morning half-full (we've been recycling for years & use cloth nappies on dd3 & ds so the bin's usually only 1/2 to 3/4 full). dh came home for lunch & checked to see if it had been emptied & some sod's gone & filled it to the brim with black bags. The lid's barely closing & the bin-men won't empty bins if the lid won't close since one flipped open in the machine & knocked out some poor bin man's teeth. So because some lazy sod of a neighbour can't be bothered to recycle their rubbish our bin might not get emptied. Also the council are still making noises about chipping our bins so you pay according to the weight of your rubbish so we might wind up paying more as well. I just hope dh doesn't catch whoever's doing it!

Tell the Daily Mail - they'll do a double page spread on it. They don't like fortnightly collections or anything associated with them.
If it happens again one of you should take a day off, keep watch and nab the doer - nip it in the bud before it drives you insane.

How annoying! Perhaps we'll all have to get locks for our bins Some people are so bloody lazy!

Our neighbour empties ours onto the street to fill our bin LOL , we're getting a bin lock as the extra rubbish isnt collected (ie ours). owuldnt mind as much bit there's only 2 of them and 5 of us!

However she's a cow so we expect it (shes built an extension into our garden when we were away- the landlords have had to get an injunction out against her and she tried to kick all the fences down as they replaced the ones she removed- apaprently our childrens safety is second to the convenience of adults (ie our (2 SN) kids shouldnt be able to access the garden if it means she has to go round in order toa ccess the wall that she isnt allowed near due to an ack-chew-al injunction )

Chap on the other side is lovely though LOL- just in case I sound awful

Our neighbour is a single lady, and her bin is only ever half full. By her permission we occassionaly use her bin when ours is full.

However, aside this arrangement, if I were in need of discarding a bag full of rubbish and our bin was full, I would go scouting for a half empty bin tbh and use it. I would NOT put it in someones bin which causes the lid to be part open.

This need has happened a few times, because bi-monthly picks up dont always work for us, and so we have to find alternative ways to dispose. I think to use someones half empty bin should not be a problem, or cause an offence. Cant see why it should anyway.

I would be really angry with your neighbours though peachy, that is uncalled for and just down right nasty. I dont do tit-for-tat but can understand how someone would want to respond unkindly to that behaviour.

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Wolfgirl, how would you know the people who the bin belongs too aren't planning to put another bag in? Dh only puts the bin bags out just before the rubbish lorry is due, because otherwise foxes drag everything all over the street (even if it is in a bin, little buggers have worked out how to knock them over). I'd be very pissed off if someone else filled our bin up so we couldn't use it.

Really can't be arsed wolfgirl, just let the landlords get on with it (CM thought I should call COuncil and ask if she can have a disabiliity badge when she is able to garden all day and attempt to kick fences over, how come I cant have one with 2 AsD kids- but would rather leave it)

I have to live here after all.

exactly edam, we are up at 6am, and thats when the last of our rubbish goes out, and the bin men are along just after. Yes, I agree you have to be careful/sensitive not to anything untoward or disrespectful, but equally....needs must sometimes.

Years ago I used to live next door to a lovely old couple. The old man was in his late 70's and insisted that he would put my bin out every week

I used to get really upset thinking of him struggling until i found out why he was soooo determined. He used to have a little whiskey every day and his wife didn't know and he'd put the old whiskey bottles in my bin to hide the evidence

It didn't bother me but it did make me laugh at his wileyness. Bless him

LOL at the secret drinker, very wily.

I don't think you are being unreasonable. But what do councils think is going to happen when they reduce rubbish collection. You have to put it somewhere. I expect Tesco is going to have this problem too.

This rubbish collection reduction is a cost saving excercise. It will much harder to clean up the environment when people start stashing ther rubbish in all sorts of place to avoid unjust council fines.

And where's my reduction in council tax to go with my reduced collection service?

Of course people are going to stick their rubbish in other people's bins!!! It doesn't make it right or fair... but, really, did they not see this coming?

yes i know. It made me lugh so much. he used to hide his quarter bottles in holes in my very old wall and then have a clear out just before bin day. The joke is that his wife knew he was drinking and I'm sure she knew what he was doing

I have seen a lot of ly tipping of household rubbish on the country lanes near where I live since they have reduced bin colelctions

this happens here a lot. i took out all of the bags that no 15 had put in our wheelie bin and left them outside their back gate.

adorn rubber gloves and find an address and return to sender.

This is going to happen more and more now that councils don't provide a proper rubbish collection service...

I sometimes stick my rubbish in neighbours bins. I recycle everything i can ie tins, glass, paper and cardboard. I also collected all plastic bottles in a separate bin and took them to local tip only to be told that the bin they use for recycling plastic was full and to just chuck it in normal general waste bin! I now do not see the point in traipsing down tip to recycle plastic when bin is always full!! I have a large wheelie bin and it does not hold 2 weeks rubbish for a family of 5 so i end up down the tip every other week anyway!
Until the local council sort out their recycling there isnt alot more i can do TBH short of using car more often to get to tip! Defeats the object doesnt it!1!!

Yeah, but it's not fair on your neighbours to use their bins just because the council is crap. Don't take it out on them, hassle your councillor if you have a problem or go to the local paper.

I put extra bags into my neighbours bins , on the morning of collection. Would never fill it that full though. Can't see a problem really.

So, have you asked them if they mind? The bins don't belong to you, seems a bit rude to put your rubbish in them without asking nicely.

And when councils do introduce that weighing the bin thing, I bet neighbours WILL mind.

How big are these bins then? Are they really tiny. We still have weekly collections and fortnightly recycling. I recycle loads and take plastic and card to the tip (sorry Household Waste Recycling Center ). And for 5 of use we have 2 black bags of refuse a week. Would 4 bags not go in one of the bins? Worried now.

I don't think it's fair to blame the councils neccessarily (quite happy to do so in other areas of course). There is a limit to landfill and not that many viable alternatives as yet. If there isn't anywhere for the stuff to go, they have to reduce the amounts they take. Rubbish collection is much more complex now that it once was - not just a question of taking it away and forgetting about it.

I would like to know how much of my recycling really get recycled. I think a lot of what they take away already get dumped in the landfill because recycling centre do't have the capacity to recycle what they get now. So, come September, are a lot more recycling centres suddenly going to pop up? Or is this all a PR excercise to reduce their collection cost.... but the stuff is still going to go to landfill and wherever else people stash it to avoid fines.

So, think when you rinse out your glass jars for recycling. Is it going to be recycled or are you wasting precious water on a jar that is headed for landfill anyway.

I'm not sure how true that is Eleusis. Landfill is getting more and more expensive as it gets harder to find. There are always urban miffs about council chucking recycling in landfill but not sure how correct they are.

Doesn't actually make any difference in the long run - the situation can't carry on as it is.