to be wondering what's going on with my bins?

[whatsbinhappnin]

Our bedroom is on the ground floor with the main outdoor bins underneath our windowsill.

A few times in the late evening over the last couple of weeks I've heard a car pull up outside our house, car doors slam (about 6-8 times, so not a person getting into/out of a taxi) and then things being dumped into our outdoor bins. Car doors then shut and they drive off.

The first couple of times I didn't think much of it, but it's just happened again.

We have a big blind over the window and wooden shutters on the inside so no curtain to easily twitch and I can't move very fast due to an injury/it would be very obvious if I opened the blind and shutters to have a look!

I'm going to investigate the bins in the morning, but any ideas as to what could be going on?! Bin day is Friday so bins should currently be empty apart from the used nappies our upstairs neighbour throws in without bagging

Living in central London on a residential street if it makes a difference.

Someone is dumping stuff in your bins...

They are using you bin for something so it doesn’t get found in their bin

Get a bin lock then they cant keep doing it.

@Nikhedonia thanks, I had got that far

@ivykaty44 what could they be dumping though bit worried about what I'll find!

Oh come on - if you’re curious to start a thread, you’re curious enough to put your shoes on right now and grab a torch...

It's my brother. He pretends to his wife that he's a healthy eater, when he's finished a late shift at work he's straight in to KFC and needs to get rid of the evidence.

Living in central London on a residential street if it makes a difference.

Yes I think it does.

I live in London too (well a London borough) and this is rife. People just dump rubbish in other people's bins/communal bins/random skips because the council won't take 'side bags' and they're too lazy to take their rubbish to the dump, or pay for an extra collection.

My local FB group is full of complaints and Ring Doorbell footage.

It’s dismembered body parts piecemeal. Tomorrow it’s the head

(Sorry if that’s in bad taste)...

@NoSquirrels I would love to but I'm all cosy in bed and it's now chucking it down with rain. I'm on crutches so it's doubly hard!

@LzzyHale this is by far the best case scenario!

My nextdoor neighbour ordered a skip for some building work he's having done. It arrived one evening and by the next morning, there were 15 bin bags in it.

His CCTV showed 2 guys getting out of a car and dumping them. It was just random household waste with a lot of beer cans. Possibly from a BBQ.

Very plausible

So DP has just got out the shower and said, 'Oh, it's probably someone stealing cardboard for trafficking'

???

Apparently there are gangs that steal cardboard, ship it to place a like China and Russia and make millions from it!?

I did see the neighbours had left a big cardboard box at the end of the bins earlier, so will see if it's there in the morning. It's possible the noise I heard was people stumbling to get between the black bins and recycling bins in the dark.

But who knew this was a thing?!

Right. Let me get this straight.

Someone has put something in your bin. Which is probably about a 30 second walk away from you. And rather than literally walk outside, open the bin and look, you thought you’d get a better idea from asking on Mumsnet...?

Stealing cardboard? Blow me, wish they’d come my way! We had new doors delivered and they came in cardboard, I’d love someone to traffick it elsewhere!

Place marking. I have to know what’s gone in the bins.

@ShirleyPhallus please see above. I am in bed, it is pouring with rain, and I am on crutches

No one steals cardboard for trafficking! There 100 more plausible explanations.

So have you checked what was put in your bins after the last few times?

www.bbc.com/news/business-53724620

Check it out!

DP sounded so unfazed by the idea, as if it's a completely normal thing to do and everyone knows about it

@choosername1234 no, I didn't think much of it, assumed it was someone like @Lzzyhale 's brother binning their takeaway remnants. But now it seems to be a regular thing...

[quote whatsbinhappnin]@ShirleyPhallus please see above. I am in bed, it is pouring with rain, and I am on crutches [/quote]
Well then the only answer is to tape your crutches together, one on top of another, then add a broom handle, a roll of wrapping paper and some chopsticks so you have a long poking device and open the bin lid from the safety of your bed

Wow. Who would have thought that there is a black market for cardboard of all things, stolen from bins, in London?

I just think that is completely implausible.

These people are purposely driving around to find places where they can inconspicuously dump rubbish, on multiple occasions. There’s no good reason for that, other than nefarious. They equally could have driven to a skip or used their own bins. Why are they putting this much effort into removing their association from this rubbish if it’s not dodgy?

In London bins are fair game, but it seems odd they always pick yours - do you have a good space in the front for nipping in with a car?
In my borough if you could make money from abandoned cardboard boxes you could really make it rich, maybe Dick Whittington was right, the street are paved with gold.

@whatsbinhappnin

www.bbc.com/news/business-53724620

Check it out!

DP sounded so unfazed by the idea, as if it's a completely normal thing to do and everyone knows about it

They should just order something a nail polish from Amazon. It gets delivered in a cardboard box big enough for a small human to fit in.

@Nikhedonia

I thought that just happened to me! Obviously it's a thing then lol