To put my rubbish in neighbours bin?

[Gruffalosandbuffalos]

It’s bin day, all bins are out on the street waiting to be emptied. Next door is half empty (single person), we can’t get the lid to close on ours (family of 4) due to extra Xmas and a birthday rubbish this month. AIBU to stick an extra bin bag in next doors bin before it is collected? I would go and ask but they aren’t home.

I do this all the time but I did check with neighbour that it was OK.

I would be very annoyed if someone did this with our bin, but I can't logically explain the weird protectiveness I feel for it 😆 If I think about it, there is no reason to be annoyed really

We don't have bins provided (people who haven't bought their own just put rubbish out in bags), and our council isn't fussy about it, but I don't think I'd mind.

I'd appreciate it if the rubbish dumper told me though, otherwise I might feel it was a bit of a pisstake.

I must admit though, I'm a bit mystified by how people generate so much rubbish. We have a small kitchen bin, I think it's 10 litres, and only usually empty it once in a week. Our recycling bin (which the council provide) is rarely more than half full after a fortnight. Even after Christmas, when it was 4 weeks and more packaging (and wine bottles ) etc than usual, it wasn't close to full.

There definitely seems to be a huge increase in the amount of rubbish being generated these days, but then bins aren’t necessarily collected weekly any more.

If your bin charges are “pay-by-weight”, then you shouldn’t.

Ask another neighbour who is in if you can use theirs instead. Or keep the bag until the bin is emptied.

Nixee2231
I’d feel like this as well and can’t explain it either 😂

I don’t know how we generate so much rubbish either! I recycle what I can but facilities in our council are poor.

With 2 fussy children under 4 we have quite a bit of food waste and then nappies for the youngest.

We fill our green bin every fortnight!

Do it

Not unless you can ask first. Highly rude to just assume you can do it.

We fill our green bin every fortnight!
I don't know how people fill a full size recycling bin either. There's only two of us but ours takes about 6 weeks to half fill (put out at half full). We have a separate paper/card box. Rubbish is a 12 litre bag a fortnight.

@74NewStreet I had to buy my bin from the council when I moved in so it certainly is mine. It does not belong to the council at all.

Cf neighbours always had an overflowing bin, once the truck was late so I thought ‘I’ll
Just take the kitchen bin out before collection’ it was brimming over with their shite. Another time they were throwing away bedding and never, ever went to the tip that was 5 minutes away (had three cars). I looked out my window to see duvets and pillows on top of my closed bin (her lid was at an angle as usual). I went out and threw the stuff into her garden. My bin wouldn’t be lifted with that stuff on top of it. She was a cf in general and always did everything to suit herself. Glad they moved!

Oh and our bins get collected three weekly!

Oh, ok. I’m in London and the wheelie bins were supplied by the council. We have one pickup per week, but it alternates between rubbish and recycling bins.

Ours are weekly but it’s a different bin each week so three weeks between collections.

We live in a row if maisonettes where the people on the second floor have no bins but have to put binbags out. I always let upstairs neighbours put their rubbish in our bin- mind you, they did ask before doing it but I wouldn't have minded if I were your neighbours in your situation.

I wouldn't mind if it was out and I had gone off to work. I did have my cheeky twat (new) next door neighbour come into my front garden and put bags in the night before bin day, totally filling it so it wouldn't close. They waited until I was in bed too. Unluckily for them, I hadn't got to sleep and I was downstairs throwing it back in their garden before they made it down the drive. I think I'd had a bad day...

On the other hand, I used to live in an apartment and we kept the bins in a line at the side behind a gate. All the neighbours put rubbish in the first bin and then when that was full, moved onto the next one along. Very civilised and didn't clutter up the place with loads of half empty bins.