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AIBU?

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Once your neighbours bin is properly out

46 replies

PooleySpooley · 19/12/2018 22:12

It’s fair game isn’t it?

To add a little of your extra ... waste that won’t fit in your own bin?

Providing they have space of course......

OP posts:

CarolineForbes · 19/12/2018 22:50

Don't do it without asking. One day I thought oh how nice the neighbours have taken our bin out for us even though it's actually a tad inconvenient as we haven't emptied our bins indoors yet. Off I walk to my bin to find they've filled it to bursting! I had to take it all out to put my stuff in. I notice that since then she runs out right before the bin men get there to distribute her stuff in various neighbours bins which is at least a bit better. The thing is we normally have extra room so if they asked I wouldn't mind giving them the nod to add stuff once we were done!

SleepWarrior · 19/12/2018 22:51

This used to drive me crazy where I used to live. I would often put the bins out before kids bedtime because they were terrible sleepers and the bins made SUCH a racket being dragged out to the kerb. However, the bin bag wouldn't be ready to go out until I'd cleaned up that evening.

I never caught anyone, but I would regularly be faced with no space to put the rest of my rubbish in. Plus, recycling and garbage would just be mixed in willy nilly meaning I'd have to sort it or risk it not getting collected. Drove me loopy so I would never do it without checking first.

MagnificentSevenHeaven · 19/12/2018 22:51

My neighbours once put a tied opaque white bag of recycling in my recycling bin - that's enough for them to refuse to take it. Luckily I noticed & chucked it down their drive.

It hasn't happened again...

WitsEnding · 19/12/2018 22:53

No, not unless you have permission. One of my neighbours has had several attempts at putting unrecyclable plastic in my recycling bin and I now leave it till the latest possible minute before putting the bin out. As pp says, sometimes the bins aren't emptied until days later and I need to put more in.

poppoppop100 · 19/12/2018 22:57

yes.The bin doesn't belong to them it belongs to the council

BrightYellowDaffodil · 19/12/2018 22:57

No, don’t do it without permission. It’s bloody rude and inconsiderate to use someone else’s bin - a bin they’re going to be held responsible for if it’s overfull etc - without asking.

One of my neighbours did this and I was hugely pissed off as I had some stuff in the boot of my car to go in that now wouldn’t fit. If my neighbours did it regularly I’d get bin locks to stop cheeky fuckers like you, @OP.

megletthesecond · 19/12/2018 22:58

Not unless a) you are friends with your neighbour and b) you've asked.

ineedtostopbeingsolazy · 19/12/2018 23:12

Osirus · 19/12/2018 23:15

We do pay for our refuse - have you not heard of council tax?

AGHHHH · 19/12/2018 23:19

No it's not fair game because they could have additional rubbish to put in it between now and collection.

Witchend · 19/12/2018 23:24

Only if you ask.

I have an elderly friend who has one of the garden waste bins (you pay extra for it in our area) We do various things for her, and she has told us that any time we need to put stuff in then that's fine, but I still would always check first.

HaudYerWheestHen · 19/12/2018 23:29

I do it but I put the neighbours bin out for him and back again. He doesn't use it as he only stays there part time so doesn't care if we do (and has said so)

I would do it without asking first if the bin lorry is about to take it and there is 100% no chance they won't be needing the space themselves.

tillytrotter1 · 19/12/2018 23:31

I don't mind a neighbour putting packaged rubbish in the bin but I draw the line at dog walkers wanting to dispose of the poo bags in my bin, one even wanted to use my bin when it had just been emptied! They can get very aggressive too, it really isn't my fault that there is a lack of disposal bins on the lane!

AuditAngel · 19/12/2018 23:31

Not possible for us as we have no neighbours, but we also get weekly collections and no restriction’s on the number of bags we can put out.

We do recycle everything we can and usually have 3 crates of recycling and one bin bag

TakingtheLeap · 19/12/2018 23:45

When we first moved into our house we had overfilled our bin, and we didn't realise that the bin lorry here is strict about not emptying bins if they are too full for the lid to shut. One of our neighbours must have noticed because when I went out later the (minging, as this was landfill!) top bag had been removed and put into another bin.

Posthistoricmonsters · 20/12/2018 01:04

If we've managed to accumulate more recycling than we can keep hold of, or more landfill waste than usual, then I take extra to the recycling centre and sort it myself. Now that we have shared bins for our flat, it's even more important. I know not everyone drives, but if you have too much garbage, it's up to you to take it away. Asking first is fine, I know people who do that and it works out fine. But don't just dump without permission. You don't know if someone needs the space. I would often go back to the bin a few times before it was collected, so if it was filled I'd have been cross.

vinegarqueen · 20/12/2018 01:11

I'd ask, especially if it's recycling as if the bin men don't take it due to having the wrong stuff then it can be a fortnight or more to wait. The terminally stupid passer-by dumping plastic bags of dog poo in the top of our green bin was a particular low point.

WTFIsAGleepglorp · 20/12/2018 01:20

I've done this last thing, just before the bin men arrived and I was off on holiday.

Instead of my bin not being put back into place (because I wouldn't be around), I took my bin inside and dumped the single bag of rubbish in a neighbour's bin.

They had plenty of space and my bin wasn't left out on the pavement advertising my absence.

Cherries101 · 20/12/2018 01:24

We have bags not bins. It’s a perfect arrangement

snitzelvoncrumb · 20/12/2018 01:26

My husband usually puts the bin out, then I usually add to it. If someone filled my bin they would find the rubbish on the ground next to their bin.

BollockingBaubles · 20/12/2018 01:29

Dh pulls our bin the night before because I have a physical condition which means I can't pull a full one out. Our bin men don't collect till after lunch so often I plan to put more rubbish in bin on the morning.

I must have a neighbour like yours op as there's been several occasions where my bin has been filled with someone else's shit meaning I can't put my own rubbish in my own bin and we've had to drive to the tip.

Twice the bin had had a shovel full of dog shit flung in unbagged and lid squashed down on top meaning I have to clean the fucking stuff off.

Three times the lid hasn't been closed and council didn't empty it.

If you ask and they say yes it's totally fine. We do a drive to the top or pay the council to take our extra rubbish away. I'd never just fill someone else's bin up without asking, and I absolutely wouldn't put what's seems to be weeks worth of shovelled up dog shit unbagged and attempt to squash lid down on top of it.

I've got a dog who had a viscous sounding bark and makes it known when anyone comes near gate and might just be coincidence but cheeky fuckers don't stop me from using my own bin since getting her

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