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!

Fio I am in awe of you. Bet that woman won't do that again!
BTW you know what's worse than other people putting rubbish in your bin? Having a bunch of drunken twats nicking it and then having to pay £25 to replace it
I can't see how the whole chipping thing will work unless you can lock your bin in such a way that the bin men can empty it and other people can't. But I'm sure where there's a will there's a way...

I don't see how you could have a lock on your bin. How would the bin men get the rubbish out?

we have a git of a neighbour who goes up and down the street filling everyones bins with his rubbish we reported him to the council and told the bin men about him too , so far its worked

we still don't have bins here!

I can see from the thread and input here, that the consensus is outrage at other people using your bins, but I really dont see a problem tbh especially, if:

your bin is half empty
you have asked permission

Another example thats its OK:- If say, we only have one bag in the bin, and we have gone away, and a neighbours bin was overflowing, I would be happy for them to use our bin.

Example of when it would NOT be OK:- if our bin was still in use, and someone filled it before us. Im not sure the bin men will pick stuff up just lying next to the bin either, so would have to call the council and explain. Would be annoyed at that scenario though.

Ive thought about this thread all afternoon, and really tried to understand and think why it would upset anyone, and I cant (other than last scenario). I do have to say.... we do have wonderful neighbours, and everyone just helps everyone else out. oh well. xx

i woulnt mind if he asked but he doesnt also if bin lids dont close bin men wont take them and the git in question always fills so wont close arghhhhhh

It annoys my mum as she recycles everything - the lady that 'fly bins' recycles nothing so it looks like my mum is sending recyclable stuff to landfill.
This problem will get really bad if the councils start to chip and weigh bins, I can just imagine the documentaries about it! Bin Wars!

How rude!
No you're not unreasonable IMO.
I used to have my own business and had a big bin and sometimes people living nearby would throw their binbags in it and it used to drive me insane..

Totally unacceptable, I would get a lock.

i think you are being a tinsywincy bit unreasonable tbh. I must admit that i dont use cloth nappies (do i risk being banished from MN for this, i wish that i did but for some reaSon i didn't) but i recycle everything i possibly can and even compost, yet our bins are still stinking and overflowing after the two weeks. How dare the council patronise us by saying that bi weekly collectionis are to increase recyling. It is to reduce costs, as simple as that - if they were to budget my council tax a bit better they would be able to uphold weekly deliveries. We put our excess rubbish in our neighbours bin, we havent actually asked him yet, never thought to, we always wait til he puts his out so that he is never met with a full bin, whats the problem. The rubbish will still have to be disposed of, if we don't put it in our neigbours bin we will have to take it to the local tip, in the car, so how is that environmenally friendsly with all those extra carbon emmisions from trips to the tip. So, i am not a lazy sod at all, i just have more rubbish than will fit into bins in two weeks and it is no way because i dont recycle. Our council don't recycle glass bottles at the doorstep so i take all our bottles to the recycle bins, but i wonder how many don't bother, quite a lot i think who would recycle them if the council were to collect them.

lucyellens to be fair, if thats all you're doing who will notice? If they're not going abck to the bin anyhow

Its when we cant use ours as she has filled it, or she ahs emptied ours onto the pavement that narks me.

Saying that if it were the nice neighbour I'd probably not be so annoyed

lucyellensmum - I agree; and more so cos thats my DDs name - nearly. she is Lucy ellen jayne. LOL

lucyellen i agree. my sister and i live really close but are in different counties...her local council recycles plastic bottles and packages and she has a weekly collection for both green and household waste....my local council will only recycle garden waste, cans and glass. we have a 2 weekly collection. the rubbish stinks the bin overflows. the lady who lives next door has the same size bin as us..she is single..there are five of us!! so yes i use her bin when she has put hers out on collection day. i wouldnt dream of doing it until she has finished loading hers. i really dont see the problem tbh if she has finished with it (because its out!) and i have extra waste!

wasnt there soemthing in the times anyway, that even waste sorted for recycling is often dumped by the waste people as the councils aren't paying the people to sort the contaminated stuff out?

It takes us 4-6 weeks to fill up our bin... we are also a family of 5. It baffles me how other families manage to produce so much rubbish. We do recycle a lot.... but I think something else is happening. Does everyone flat pack antiseptic cartons and stack plastic containers inside each other, and stuff everything inside everything else? Take care not to waste food? Those things are 2nd nature to me. It's not that much effort.

Anyway, sometimes when neighbours are overflowing I nick their excess rubbish and put it in ours.

I'm your neighbours use bins at all. People in my town seem to think it's perfectly aceptable to just chuck their rubbish on the floor.

Surely locks on all bins won't work as everyone will have the same locks and keys so they will still be able to get in other people's bins?

peachy, i didnt realise that was the case, then you are definately not being unreasonable and when you find the culprit you should post your rubbish through her front door!

Well bin locks sound ok to me but will it really help? On collection day, you will have to unlock the bin before you go out to work so the binmen can empty it -and the neighbours will fill it up then surely?

Although perhaps if they try it at nighttime or something and find a lock, they'll start looking further down the road for easier bins?

Posted this & ran yesterday so had no idea how many people had replied. Not sure where most of you live but our council has set up recycling points all over the place for paper, glass, plastic & tins. We have kerbside collection for household waste, garden waste & paper/cardboard only so a couple of times a week me or dh walks to one of these with our glass etc (we don't have a car so no problems with emissions there lol).

It just made me angry that they'd filled our bin to overflowing as there was a chance it might not get emptied (thankfully it did 'cos dh forced the lid closed). Also bins occasionally don't get emptied if they're too heavy & there was no telling what might have been in the bags. If they'd come & asked me I'd probably have yes just this once but they didn't - I've no idea who did it. And what about if the councils do start weighing the bins? I've read all the posts here but am still

It probably is hugely important what your council rpvides actually- ours recycles glass, plastic bottles, paper and fabrics. That still leves cardboard boxes, cartons and the more bulky things- plus nappies (Please dont jump on me LOL- I used washables for years and years but DS3 is 4 in a few weeks and SN and i can neither get decent ones in his size locally, invest in something that may not be needed any time or frankly find the energy any more), cat litter and as our garden is too small for a compost heap (and too involved in legal matters with said neighbour) stuff I would ideally compost. Which is a lot as we make most foods from scratch.

Peachy could you get a composting bin rather than a heap? It keeps the smell inside - it's like a larger version of a tombola barrel. I want to get one just so I can spin it round to start the decomposting process off . Our cat litter is apparently biodegradable in a composter too although the little madam now appears to be using the garden instead of her box. Less cleaning for me I guess .

bookwornmum I fully intend to get something like that, but we have a fully enclosed abck garden and cannot get anything in atm due to her-next-doors (she ahs decided she wants to buy half the garden and is annexing parts despite the landlord refusing to sell- it goes to court soon, its all just nastiness as the landlord wants her to demolish the wall and extension... well they are on our side after all! And they were deleiberately build when she knew we were away with no planning permissin at all )

there's lots of stuff we want to do out there, but its on hold- if its not her its the landlords briother constantly visiting to check up on her. Actually we adore this house but its getting a bit much frankly. her shouting at Dh over the wall, landlords briother (Landlord is fine) dropping in with power tools (just thought i'd give the hedge a trim love- er we did it yesterday- yes dear but can I take another few inches off (which actually seems to ahve killed the hedge) (in the full knowledge that dh sleeps in daya s works nights and thats 2 kids are DS1 cant tolerate visitors very well due to his HFA)

Sorry LOL- rant over. Nothing we can do, its all in the hands of solicitors now