AIBU neighbours filling my bin

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I know there’s bigger things going on in the world but I’ve just found out that before our wheelie bin was emptied today our next door neighbour (she’s friendly, he’s not) had filled our bin with their rubbish from the decorating they’ve been doing. AIBU to think that you ask first if it’s ok? Should I let it go or speak to her about it?

@OneInEight have you asked why he's doing it?

My bin used to be in the front garden, away from the house. No fence. Random neighbours decided it was a public bin. Gave me the rage! I keep it in the back garden now and put it out late at night before bin day.

Bin rage is quite common, I discovered, it fills you with anger - I thought I was being petty and paranoid. It feels like you're being disrespected and used, somehow.

I’d have been pissed off that they didn’t ask first, not even a note through the door if they didn’t want to ask face to face. My council won’t take bins if they have ‘building work’ rubbish in them so for me that might have meant my bin wasn’t emptied at all.

Do you have wheelie bins? You can get gravity locks for them that stop them being opened on the ground but release when tipped up by the bin lorry. But before I went that route, I’d ask the neighbour to ask first if they want to use the bin.

Rude not to ask and posters that think it is ok are clearly the ones that think their neighbours bin is an extension of theirs. Honestly, it's basic manners!

Everyone does this where I live (as in my row of houses)- if the bins are out already and people have extra rubbish they fill up the bins that aren’t full. It’s an ‘accepted’ and no one bats an eye, because everyone does it.

and posters that think it is ok are clearly the ones that think their neighbours bin is an extension of theirs

Not at all. I never even fill my bin except at Christmas & then take any excess to the recycling centre myself. I just don’t see a problem with helping a neighbour get rid of some rubbish when you have space in your bin.

Rude not to ask and posters that think it is ok are clearly the ones that think their neighbours bin is an extension of theirs. Honestly, it's basic manners!

Nope, never done it in my life, I would ask if I needed to but can't see the problem if the non men are in the road, bin is half empty of sticking a bag of appropriately waste that's not dirty to be emptied immediately.

I sometimes do the opposite; my bin is never full, so if my neighbours' bins have stuff bulging out, I rescue it and put it into mine.

(so long as it is not stinky)

Technically it's flytipping.

Makes me irrationally angry when one of our neighbours did it - especially when she put waste in our recycling bin!

Winds me up no end, because if the refuse crews won't take it (because these people never bag stuff properly, or put non-recycling in the recycling bins) it me who has to sort it out and has a full bin.
We only ever put out one bag in our wheely bin because we recycle lots, so nearly every week someone else puts their stuff in it (after I've put it out, usually around 10pm).
No they never ask. They have their own bin too. There's only two of them, where does all the rubbish come from?

I wouldn’t mind if there was space, but I would if it were certain neighbours who made our life difficult some years back. Petty, isn’t it?!

If it was just before collection then why does it matter to you? And of course the only other option they have, I imagine,(with the tips being closed) would be to leave the rubbish in their front garden, so making the street look a mess. Would you prefer that? Yes they could have asked, but perhaps they knew you would be petty about it, so didn't.

(Although I can see the problem if it were the 'wrong sort of waste' or something, but the OP hasn't said that).

I had neighbours like this. They moved out 2 weeks ago and I found out yesterday they'd filled my green garden waste bin with loads of spam and unopened post. Dropped in right on top of my grass cuttings! Just weird

I'm amazed at the number of people who would see this as a problem. It was bin day so clearly the bin was being emptied. It certainly isn't fly tipping. If you tried to report is to the council as such, you'd be laughed out of the town hall!
I see this as being neighbourly, helping out each other particularly in these hard times. I wouldn't think to ask to put my rubbish in a different bin in bin day, but neither would I expect to be asked by someone wanting to do the same. That's being very precious if you ask me.

I wouldn't be happy with this.
People often just discard things in the wrong bins, which can result in your bin not being emptied if the bin men look inside hence your left with a full bin until next date of collection with the job of sorting out what should not be in it.
I see neighbours bins not emptied as they have not used the bins accordingly.

If it was just before collection, I would have no problem with this and no I don't put my rubbish in other people's bins.

Forgot to say if asked of course I would agree as long as I knew what was going in it.

Wouldn't bother me at all if it was out to be emptied, rather that than rubbish piled up outside the house til the next collection

The worst of my neighbours have moved out. Last bin night I sneaked out and pulled out a half full bin from an empty house and topped it up with our bags.

I plan to keep using the empty house's bins while this goes on, as long as it stays empty, only putting stuff in on bin night so I don't get found out.

I'm having a clear out and generating a lot of rubbish.

My nice neighbour sent me a text to ask if I minded if she put some things in my paper/card bin this week. Happy to help her. The other cf who used to live in the other side just saw our bin as hers as well. I pull my bin out in the afternoon as it easiest and I decided to go and out a further bag in later only to find it practically overflowing with her shite! I put her bag on her doorstep so I had space for my rubbish in my bin! She also put crap on top of my bin once. The bin men night not lift it if there is stuff piled on top. We live 5 minutes from a tip but she’d never go and I had to report her for fly tipping at the building site nearby.

YANBU. You are responsible for the waste in your bin. You would be the person the council complains to or refuses to provide collections if they dump their rubbish in them.

It really doesn't matter whether it was just before the collection or not. That argument is like saying it's fine to drive at 120mph on the motorway because the roads are quiet at the moment.

Driving at 120mph could kill someone if you crashed, putting a bag of rubbish in a bin is not going to kill anyone.

And no i dont put my rubbish in other peoples bins.

They should have asked but as long as it was collected ok then not worth worrying about.

This is MN. People don't routinely answer the door unless expecting someone. Everyone is supposed to text before you knock on someones door and thats in normal times.

Bin put out for collection, space left in it, neighbour has a bit more rubbish than usual so pops some in your bin. No problem

My ndn does this. It does my head in. I don't know how the bins work in the UK, but here in Ireland we pay by weight. We have a yearly weight allowance and once we go over it we pay extra, on top of our bin charges. I just throw my ndn rubbish behind his shed cos he's an idiot and pretends not to understand me when I'm standing there with his rubbish in my hand.