So, 5 weeks ago ( collection day) I was gutted that when I got back home, my paper and card recycling bin was nowhere to be seen. My green garden/ food bin was there, my plastic/ glass, but no paper..each of our bins have those big stick on numbers on, plus the small panel at the back of the bin with the number on, from council issue I presume. Had a quick scout around neighbours, but no sign. I knew from a friend that they sometimes get mangled on the bin lorry, and disappear, so ordered another from the council. No charge for replacement bin, but it continued to rankle me, particularly as a random paper bin had appeared further down the street, no numbers, and very dirty. Jump forward to next recycling day and I’m on a mission, checking as many of neighbours bins as I can. Nothing. Plus, still no bloody replacement bin, so my paper / card pile at back door, grows massive , and the scruffy paper bin continues to mock me. So.. I rang the council again 2 days ago, who admitted the order hadn’t been processed and I’m now getting a new bin delivered in 5 days... meantime.... Someone and I don’t know who, has found this bin and is continually putting it at the end of my drive... I flipped tonight as came home and it was there again! So I’m guessing that when Council arrive, they’ll think ‘madwoman, she has a paper recycling bin!’ Leaving me to clean someone else’s dirty bin. Also if I claim the dirty bin, what if it’s actual owners appear and then accuse me of taking theirs?? AIBU to want either own bin back or a new one, and to think that taking someone’s else’s bin isn’t the answer? And wtf is moving the bin to my drive?? I keep moving it back to its ‘ kind of no mans land’ place where it isn’t outside anyone’s, where it lived quite happily for 4 weeks til someone decided I should take it as mine. AIBU?