My neighbours have started putting rubbish in my bin

[Littleemma82]

Hi
So I've recently moved house, and my neighbours overall seem ok.
I'm a single parent with one child and our council collects the recycling bin one week and the garden/ food waste the following week. Sometimes I only put my recycling out monthly because I don't always fill the bin 100% for both collections. Anyway the week before last I didn't put out my recycling because I was working 4 shifts back to back and i knew it wasn't full. Anyway two days later i went outside to put my recycling in the bin and it was almost full with minimal room for my stuff. What the actual? I'm really annoyed? My last house was a semi and my bins were kept at the back of the drive near the back door. I'm not used to this. I'm tempted to put a padlock on my bins and remove the padlock when I put the bins out on bin day. It's just I'm really careful as I've heard of people being fined when they've put the wrong stuff in.

In lots of places whole neighbourhoods have an unspoken rule that once you put the bin out for collection the next day, if there is space other people might use it.

Almost everywhere with neighbours I have ever lived has been like that.
You can tell who has had a clear out because you'll see them at 10pm checking bins for a space.

Why can't they get a second bin, that's what some neighbours have done around here.

I'd leave the bin in the garage/back garden/take it out only when due to be emptied, realise that's not always possible.

Agree with this.

My house is just ds and I.

Neighbours are 6 people.

They use my bins the morning of bin day if there is room and put them out for me if I haven't!

I never get all this animosity that needs to be the relationship with neighbours!

Put my recycling bin outside back gate as usual.
Went to collect it from the top part of the alley and it wasn't there so after searching I reported it missing to local council.
After phone call decided to check again and it had mysteriously re-appeared at the top of the alley.
I was really pleased until I discovered someone had filled it with non recycling rubbish and about a ton of unbagged dog crap.
No excuse for this,bin is clearly numbered.
Dirty bastards!!!

@itsgettingweird thats fine if they adhere to the local council recycling rules. We have strict bin police - to the point that many no longer bother to recycle anymore. So many bins have been refused collection by the addition of one or two pieces of litter someone thought was ok to recycle (and may well be in a different council area).
eg we can’t recycle Tetra Pak, or any plastic that doesn’t have 1,2 or 4 stamped on it. No wrapping paper or tissue paper. White paper and cardboard - that’s a separate, tiny bag.

@Zoopet exactly!!!

Putting a lock on a bin! I googled and it’s true. Mind boggled

this is so inconsiderate, it would make me irrationally mad ha

People on here tells you to speak to your neighbours. But irrational neighbours who use your bin without asking probably think they’re in the right and will likely get offended if you approach them about it. Also, WHY SHOULD YOU HAVE TO?!?!
I’d put a padlock on them to make a point without causing a fallout with people who don’t have any manners.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/mum-forced-put-padlock-wheelie-27330648?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mirror_weird

So-called ‘journalism’ gets easier and easier. 🙄

I often put bin bags in my neighbours bin the night before collection if I have too many and their bin still has space.They are students and don’t seem to have much rubbish lol and I get on with them very well.

I think the main thing here is that you have to have a good relationship with your neighbours and I always remember my dad saying to me how it’s very important to get along with your next door neighbour or at least try to because if you don’t and you have problems with them then it can really make you miserable and you need to feel happy in your home.

I wouldn't be happy with that. DH puts the bins the evening before they are collected but there's always bits more to add the next morning.

I would be ok with them putting rubbish in the bin the night before collection if they put the bin out as well. Obviously as long as they are recycling properly.
it’s cheeky of them to put it in your bin though considering your bin wasn’t on the street it was on your property so I wouldn’t blame you for putting a padlock on it.

Definitely get a bin lock I got one for my mums bin, she’s in her 80’s and not fit for confrontation with neighbours. Her nearby neighbours are lovely, she thinks it was someone further along her road in a block of flats. Wouldn’t be too much of a problem but they were putting all sorts in her bins and then bin men wouldn’t take the rubbish. I spoke to council waste Dept and they suggested bin lock, after using it for a couple of months mum tried leaving lock off and CF neighbour hasn’t been back ( probably filling up other neighbours bins or perhaps they have moved out).

Good for you!

Totally agree these obnoxious chancers wouldn't treat a man the same.

In a similar situation, my fiery mother just removed the neighbour's stuff and dumped it on his doorstep. I can't recall if she rang the bell to tell him or not. I can assure you that the neighbour would have far rather faced my easy going father than my mother. The neighbour got the idea very quickly - no man needed. I will say that my mother had a very scary streak to her. When she was attacked by a very large dog, it soon fled whimpering and shaking. (My mother loved dogs - all sort of dogs, just not large ones attempting to drag her off her bicycle.)

Slack that they filled up your bin leaving you with little to no room for your own stuff, however I wouldn't have a problem with them using the bin as long as they put it back once the rubbish was collected.

When DD lived in a block of flats, whoever was grabbing their bin in would grab another at the same time. Made for a very harmonous community.

Sounds like they just assumed you would not be sticking it out for collection. Are their people moving in/out so they had an unusual excess this time around?

there, not their... 😫

That's awful of your neighbours as they are using your bin preventing you from.

Drop a note round to your next door neighbours and over the road saying "dear neighbours, I notice my bin (number x) again has been filled with someone else's rubbish which prevents me from using it. It is my bin not a communal bin. If you are using my bin please stop. Please can my other neighbours keep an eye out or let me see any cctv you have, for who is doing this as it is very upsetting. Thankyou Little at number X"

Report them for flytipping to your council

Do you no longer have side access to put your bins round the back, out of reach?

I have cameras and each time the dix next door use my bins their crap gets taken out and thrown in their back garden. One day I'll end up doing time over these c*nts

It was 2½ years ago.

You've created a zombie thread.