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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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Original poster

To be peed off at binmen using my big bin to carry other rubbish around?!

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BagelandEggs · 24/07/2021 10:29

I have a double-size green recycling bin because the council didn't have any more single ones when my old one broke. I love being able to get rid of loads of stuff every week and I am very protective of it; I put big numbers on the side and everything!
Last week when I got it back it was full of yucky liquid which had nothing to do with our recycling so I concluded the binmen are using my beautiful big bin to chuck everyone else's normal bin rubbish in to save them pushing all the bins around. I cleaned it out with boiling water and it was really horrible to tip it all out, etc. This week all the green bins were at top of road again after being emptied, dragged my big green bin back to my driveway, came back later to find it at the top of the effing road again with yucky stuff in! What can I do without pissing off the binmen?! First world problem, I know, but so annoying!

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VeganVeal · 24/07/2021 11:40

I love being able to get rid of loads of stuff every week and I am very protective of it; I put big numbers on the side and everything!

Ha ha, bin love.

Made me chuckle on a Saturday morning, thanks OP

Depechemodebiggestfan · 24/07/2021 11:43

Yes, our bin men do similar thing with papers/ magazine crates.
We have crates for magazine/ paper waste and they have one large bin and empty all crates into it and drag it along houses adding more in.
They do it with food recycle mini bins too.

takingmytimeonmyride · 24/07/2021 11:46

I've seen the bin men here take bags out of the neighbours bins and put them into our big bin and then that gets attached to the lorry to empty. It seems like the best solution to me rather than moving lots of bins. Doesn't bother me at all. I would have no idea if the crap at the bottom was from mine or my neighbours rubbish.

I did have to go round to collect it once though when the neighbours took it and left out their small bin instead. They were very nice about it, so I didn't even get to do a Mumsnet post. That is unreasonable!

kowari · 24/07/2021 11:58

@SwanShaped

Would they really have lifted up other people’s wheelie bins to tip into yours? They’d be too heavy.

They just reach in and take my one small bag out (household of two), so I see how it would be easier than actually tipping a bin for one bag. It's an outside bin though, I don't understand cleaning it, it's only cigarette butts or bagged dog poo I wouldn't want in mine.

memberofthewedding · 24/07/2021 12:21

OP sounds like my CF neighbour who has an absolute fetish about her bins and is very protective of them. From time to time "someone" puts something odd in one of her bins so the bin men wont empty it. On another occasions all of the bins were hidden in a nearby alley and she had to run around looking for them. Oh dear ...

tallduckandhandsome · 24/07/2021 12:23

Could you put a sign on it saying please do not use for other people's rubbish?

tallduckandhandsome · 24/07/2021 12:25

memberofthewedding

Your neighbour isn't the CF, you and all other people fucking around with her are the CFs. Leave her alone.

SwanShaped · 24/07/2021 12:32

That makes more sense about lifting the bags out

Pottedpalm · 24/07/2021 12:35

@TheYearOfSmallThings

With green waste? Really?

Also our green bins are for recyclables, grass clippings etc go in the brown bin.

Ah, that makes more sense then! Our green bins are garden waste only, no food waste. We have blue for recycling and black for non-recyclable waste. No brown bins!

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BagelandEggs · 24/07/2021 12:38

It's my green recycling bin which is collected earlier than the normal black bin waste so I wouldn't mind if the binmen were using it to put other recycling in but normal waste is really horrible! I brought the bin back to my driveway and then found it at the top of the road again so the binmen had gathered bags from neighbours' bins and put them in my recycling bin to save them carting all the bins around. A bin lock is a really good idea, thanks for that. I know it seems a small problem but I don't have an outdoor tap so it involved lots of jugs of water and a disgusting job cleaning it out and dumping the dirty water! I will not piss off the binmen though! Thanks everyone.

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kowari · 24/07/2021 12:50

It's my green recycling bin which is collected earlier than the normal black bin waste
If you are home then just put it back in your backyard?

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BagelandEggs · 24/07/2021 13:05

I put it in my backyard after it's been emptied and the bin men take it out again to fill it with other people's rubbish! It's not garden waste, it's my cardboard and glass recycling bin so I don't want other people's normal bin juice in there!

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kowari · 24/07/2021 13:21

They go onto your property? Is there a fence and a gate?

billy1966 · 24/07/2021 13:58

They go onto your property to remove your bin and fill it with other people's waste?

And you won't upset them?

I think you need to tell them stop, firmly.

KrisAkabusi · 24/07/2021 15:26

@memberofthewedding

It's not your neighbour that's the CF here! You sound like a horrible neighbour to have.

aiwblam · 24/07/2021 15:30

I live in a shared drive and the bin men stack the recycling boxes up after emptying. Seems reasonable but one of my neighbours has boxes that are sludgy (mouldy food remnants) and this gets stacked into my recycling tub that then gets sludge and ants in 🤮 so I have to clean it. This week I took my recycling to Sainsbury’s as I didn’t want to have to clean up more random filthy sludge.

helpfulperson · 24/07/2021 15:52

I thought bins remained the property of the council so in theory there is nothing to stop them doing this. Certainly if broken they are responsible for replacing not the individual household

steff13 · 24/07/2021 16:07

Where I live you put your trash cans on the curb in front of your house and then they stop the truck in front of each house. But if I'm understanding correctly, where you live you all put your trash cans in some sort of central location? It does seem like it would be more work for them to transfer the trash into one trash can instead of just doing them each individually.

Could you drill a few holes in the bottom so any liquid drains out?

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