To use neighbours bin?

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It’s bin day. All the bins are out on the front ready for collection any minute. I’ve just emptied the fridge and took my bag out and my outside bin is full, so I opened another bin which is empty bar one bag. I popped mine in, feeling a tad naughty.

Then I went crazy and have just gutted the kitchen, airing cupboard, kids wardrobes, freezer and basically filled up the neighbours bin.

I feel amazing for having such a big and frenzied clear out, but bad I’ve used the neighbours bin!

For info, it’s a culdesac and all the bins are out out together at the end of my drive and are due to be emptied this morning.

So should I be shot or was I just taking advantage of a situation?

I have a glass and cardboard and paper bin, a brown bin for garden and food waste and a general bin. Our bins are inspected every week when they’re out out and if they have the wrong rubbish in them they aren’t lifted and a “contaminated” sticker is put on the bin.

@EatSprayGlove

Where do you people live that the council collects food waste and textiles?! glass, tins, tetrapacks and cardboard only where I am!

We don’t even get glass collected here. We have two bins recycling and non recycling, they only recycle paper and minimal types of plastic, no tins/glass. No garden waste bins either.

OP YABU to do it without asking. Our neighbour has said we can use her bin(she lives alone) but we never have.

Oh no @thesearmsofmine I shouldn't complain then! We can pay to have garden waste collected sometimes so I shouldn't complain.

@Lumpwoody funnily enough I was whinging last bin day that where we live there is no bin monitoring so I regularly walk past recycling bins full of general rubbish on recycling day and general bins full of recycling. I know our region is known to burn a lot of the recycling collection and that's frowned upon but given the state of bins round here I can see why and it's so demoralizing!

That's good @Divebar2021 apparently London do food waste bins too. We used to have a garden digester but the rats kept breaking into it and I gave up on them as we have enough pest problems without creating more!

I’d be well pissed off if you were my neighbour and you’d done that without asking. Our bin men were three days late collecting our black bin recently due to vehicle breakdowns and staff problems, so we needed every bit of space we had. I’d be dumping it back on your doorstep.

We have a bin shed at the end of 4 properties.

It's an unspoken rules that last thing Sunday evening you use a ndn if there is space.

Collected Monday.

But having been on MN for years I imagine this is akin to a hangable offence

It's a right pain having a bag to put out first thing on bin day and finding your bin full of old pillows and things and so full that it doesn't even close meaning the whole thing will be left (grrrrrr)

I think it's a little cheeky, just in case the neighbour planned to put out one more bag before it's collected

@EatSprayGlove

Where do you people live that the council collects food waste and textiles?! glass, tins, tetrapacks and cardboard only where I am!

I know in Staffordshire they do a food waste collection. We don't have that here, but do have a bin for paper, card, plastic and tins, and a box for glass, plus the household rubbish bin. We also have a green bin for garden waste, but you have to pay extra for that. But, as mentioned already, pretty much all waste goes to landfill. I was shocked when I looked into it.

My scummy next door neighbour has tried to get away with that several times.

We pay for our bins to be collected but she's just a filthy bitch.
The council even had to send them a dumpster size bin that sits in their front garden. She still doesn't fill it up.

The few occasions we've noticed her extra shit in our bin we've taken the bag out and thrown it on her drive.

In this case, I guess if your bins are free and your neighbours was practically empty then what's the harm!

I’d have asked my neighbour if it was okay first. And I would have done more recycling.

It's a bit cunty tbh, no different to fly-tipping. I guess if you'd be happy for a neighbour to dump their rubbish (eg an old mattress) on your property (eg your front garden) then that's fine.

Bin collections have been missed here over the last few weeks due to staff shortages.

I hope for your neighbour's sake you aren't affected today.

Yes @longtompot we have tins too I forgot! It's pretty shocking how much recycling doesn't get recycled isn't it

Anything goes on bin day.
Just dont be like my asshole next door neighbour that chucks her shit in my bin a week before bin day.

@Rainyx

Anything goes on bin day. Just dont be like my asshole next door neighbour that chucks her shit in my bin a week before bin day.

Surely a week before bin day is bin day?

Unless your council only does fortnightly collections I guess but that would ruin the fun...

Where I live the bins are kept on the street. I couldn't even tell you which is my bin
I use any, as do my neighbours, sometimes even people across the street will use ours if theirs get full as they are families we are singletons in flats. It's lawless

@EatSprayGlove

Where do you people live that the council collects food waste and textiles?! glass, tins, tetrapacks and cardboard only where I am!

Why would the council have to collect it? Unless there’s exciting backstory about OP breaking both her legs, she can haul her lazy butt to the glass and fabric recycling bins in supermarket car parks or the tip. You know, like the rest of us non-CF do.

I'm in Ireland so black bin (general waste) is weighed and charged if over- and you'd find that the bin bag you hoisted into my bin would be returned back your front door if you filled my bin with containers and jars of rotten food.
And I'd do it after the bin lorry had gone.

Would I fuck pay for someone else's smelly shit that they are too lazy to recycle.

@Doomscrolling there are no recycling facilities in any of our supermarkets any more. To go to the tip you have to book up and it's at least a month before you can get a slot. It's no wonder people flytip and use other people's bins.

I know in Staffordshire they do a food waste collection

Not in my area of Staffordshire they don't @longtompot . Blue Bag for cardboard, Green Bin General waste and Brown bin is a charged for garden waste bin. Food is thrown in general waste.

Stoke on Trent used to mix brown bin as food/garden. Unsure if they still do that but there was no dedicated food waste collection there either.

But then Staffs is a fairly big county with eight boroughs, all of whom handle waste very differently.

@girlmom21 haha I wish it was weekly!
We have normal bins one week and recycling the next

It really wouldnt bother me. I think someone put some bits in my bin today. Its being emptied and I didnt have to drag it out. I would much rather this than my ex neighbors who upon leaving left black sacks full of garbage in the street.

If you'd put your rubbish in my bin without asking, I'd have taken it and dumped it on your drive. Cheeky mare.

As long as you aren't dumping a body in there, I'm sure it will be ok as a one off