AIBU neighbours filling my bin

[clartins]

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?

That’s cheeky !

Full disclosure we have 2 vacant properties by us and I have been taking use of the bins

As no one there !

But that’s cheeky

Have you enough room
Form yours ??

Unlike most of the neighbours, we keep our bins at the rear of our property.
Only move to front on collection day.
Not really an issue if somebody puts something in it on bin day.

Provided it was before the bin was emptied why on earth would this be an issue for you?

Yanbu.

We fill out bins since it’s a two week rotation. I’ve usually had to break and rearrange to get it to close completely. It’s annoying bypassing and seeing the lid raised despite knowing it was completely shut when it was set out and having to sort it. We also live in a particularly windy area so people putting stuff in and leaving the top to stick up means rubbish is blown all over the place.

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Oh this annoys me.

It’s one thing if they ask and you have space.

But it really annoys me when neighbours just dump stuff in without asking.
We’ve had issues before where neighbours have put the wrong sort of rubbish in our bin (e.g. non-recyclable stuff on the top of our recycling wheelie bin), or where we’ve not had room for last minute rubbish of our own because the neighbours have filled our bin to the brim.

If it was on the day of collection I couldn’t get worked up about it. Especially in the current circumstances.

Gobsmacked that people would mind a neighbour adding rubbish to their un-full bin before it was emptied. How petty.

Driving at 120mph could kill someone if you crashed, putting a bag of rubbish in a bin is not going to kill anyone.
Don’t be so ridiculous.
People are allowed to be annoyed about things that aren’t going to kill them.

I agree with you, op. Smacks of CFery to me.

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.

It is a problem. Where I live, we have been told that if the recycling contains inappropriate items or is unwashed (food particles still adhering), it is unacceptable and the entire lorry contents will have to go to landfill. Also, other people's rubbish is sometimes dirty on the outside and I don't want a stinky bin every time I open the lid. Would they like it if I put my dog poo bags in their bin, I wonder? We live in flats with a communal lawn running up to pavement level. We have to put our wheelie bins all out in a group near the pavement the night before bin day. From time to time, people who can't be bothered to wheel their bin out from their back gardens will put their recycling loose into my bin - lots of items that are not actually recyclable or covered in barbecue sauce etc. They also, stupidly, included a pharmacy bag with their name and address on so I now know who it was. I typed out a note that I stuck on the lid generally requesting people not to put their stuff in my bin but to use their own. It has, so far, worked.

I would ask out of bourgeois politeness and partly because of the sort of OTT reactions seen on this thread but FFS why does it matter if someone puts something in your partially empty wheelie bin in order to get it collected by the bin men an hour later??!!

(It’s not even “your” bin. It’s the council’s bin.)

It only annoyed me when someone used my recycling bin to put their dog poo bag in, so my bin wasn't emptied. If they put recycling in mine I would not care.

We put some stuff in a neighbours bin last week, they had put it out for collection it was half empty and emptied first thing in the morning. I wouldn't mind someone doing the same to me at all, although it does piss me off when dog walkers throw dog shit in ours. At our old house we were in the middle of a row of terraces with a bin store at the end, we didn't have designated bins, we just filled them up one at a time with all our rubbish together (same with the recycling) , it meant that we only had to drag the bins that were actually full out .

I would ask first, that said I’ve lived here 24 years and only had to do that once. I don’t claim to be right and they’re wrong. We’re both households of four, we recycle, they don’t, and their bin is always overflowing. Their choice as long as it doesn’t affect me.
There’s no social distancing issue as she rang the bell and stepped back last week to ask if she could borrow my iron which I happily lent.
The bin was emptied so it’s no biggy this time, the problem arises if the council refuses to empty my bin because of their waste. We’ve just started having to pay for garden waste to be collected and currently they haven’t so will that be next?
Just going to see how it plays out in a couple of weeks time 😊

@clartins yep see how it plays out, but currently a non issue!

Rude not to ask , sometimes I offer the neighbour to use our bin if couple days before collection if ours isn't looking likely to fill it if we are away as they are always overflowing and it attracts flies which end up in my house. But my neighbours put his extra black bags on top of my bin before and I admit I moved them and put back on his as we aren't meant to and council here have refused to take bin if lid is up so did t want mine not taken . They don't recycle either , well just started now due to all this as filling up 2 bins pretty fast.
I think if they do it again I would say something