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?

@KilledByWitches up on Biddulph moor they did, but this was several years ago. Maybe they've stopped. I know my in laws had a bucket in the kitchen and a brown bin outside.

[quote longtompot]@KilledByWitches up on Biddulph moor they did, but this was several years ago. Maybe they've stopped. I know my in laws had a bucket in the kitchen and a brown bin outside.[/quote]
That falls into staff’s moorlands remit I think. Food and garden go into one (MIL falls into their area) so there isn’t a dedicated food collection. They were generous enough to give her a waste carry though

Near Bristol.
We can recycle food, plastics, tins, foil, glass, cardboard, paper, batteries, small electrical appliances and textiles at kerbside collection.
It's a shame more recycling isn't collected elsewhere.

Ah @Doomscrolling I assumed it was for doorstep. We can't use our tip and our supermarket doesn't have recycling so it still depends on area. We have finally found a charity shop which is walkable and takes textiles for rags though.

I'd be pissed off if I hadn't been asked. Our CF neighbours did the same to our green bin, absolutely crammed it full when we put it out. Then green bin collection got suspended due to the bin men getting pinged by the app. So we had a completely full bin that wasn't even our rubbish, meaning we couldn't do our garden until it had been collected. They're lucky I didn't take all of it out and dump it on their drive. (However these neighbours do have a history of being CF so probably annoyed me more then it would most)

However if I was asked first and I didn't need to use it until after collection then I wouldn't mind.

in a time when you can be penalised for putting the wrong stuff in the wrong bin it's an anti-social and selfish thing to do.

As long as you put the right stuff in there so your neighbours won’t get in trouble for you putting the wrong stuff in the wrong bin then I think it’s fine. It was collection day anyway and they weren’t going to put more in there at that point. If you’ve filled it full of stuff that shouldn’t be in there and they could be penalised for then YABU.

It would annoy me

A) bins are charged here by weight and collection. Ie I could choose not to have it picked up if it’s almost empty and not pay.

B) I go to the effort to recycle, compost food waste, reuse, charity etc. If someone else can’t be bothered then that’s why they have so much rubbish. It shouldn’t all be landfilled.

I've told my neighbour to use my bin if necessary, they're 4 + 2, I'm now 1, especially necessary at times like Christmas, they know they can bring stuff round before bin day too, but they've been lovely supportive neighbours.

@Seafog

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

Surely bodies would go into the brown bin with the garden rubbish!

You’re going straight to hell.