Putting rubbish in a public bin

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Someone I know regularly puts a carrier bag or two in a public bin. It’s because her bun is always full and she doesn’t want to put the dog waste in her own bin.

She has said that sometimes people driving by will give her dirty looks and beep their horn as if she’s doing something wrong?

I personally wouldn’t bat an eyelid if I saw someone putting rubbish in a bin, but it got me thinking whether others think this is wrong and if so why?

I agree. I am actually disgusted that someone thinks it's ok to put human waste in a public bin.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7190761/Council-bosses-hand-200-fines-caught-throwing-rubbish-public-bin.html

They'd manage

Any meat, in my experience. My wheelie bin was atrocious last summer.

Some people are silly enough to put packaging with address, bills etc in bin

We have weekly food waste collections which helps stop the other rubbish smelling and getting maggots. I thought most people had food waste collections now

Anyone who fills a bin more than every fortnight, what are you putting in it? I get nowhere near full every fortnight.

Why are you putting meat in your wheelie bin?! That's gross

If somebody is dim enough to put something in the bag that identifies them or their address, junk mail, say.

What do you suggest? Digging a hole and burying it in the garden?

I regularly put a bag of rubbish in motorway services bin.

In the summer the services are used by a lot of caravan stop offs and they all leave bags of unsorted rubbish in the bins or next to the bins.

It keeps at least two people in a job emptying them.

I also take a carrier bag of rubbish when I go supermarket shopping to put in their bin as it's all food wrappers from their shop.

Eat it?
Food waste bin?
Don't buy it if you're throwing it away?

Food waste bin, for compost?
Surely most councils have this option now. Ours has for about 10 years.

You routinely throw meat away? I don't mean that rudely - but planning, portioning, freezing and using leftovers should stop this from happening much.

I always think it's extra awful that a living creature died just for their meat to be discarded.

I have no problem with general waste or food waste, former is fortnightly and latter is weekly. We also compost. It's getting rid of bloody cardboard that drives me mad

so it seems some don’t have food waste collections

How much dog waste does she have that she needs a carrier bag for it? Fine use a little poop bag out and about but does she like save it up? That's weird.

This is gross and could get you a fine. Leaving bags by bins or making bins overflow encourages rats and mice.

Why do you have do much rubbish?

Same here. It’s our fortnightly collection day on Tuesday and we have one full bin bag in it, that’s it.
We recycle everything else, including soft plastics, so our bin never gets full.

I regularly throw small amounts of meat away, and have been a vegetarian for 31 years. It's called cat food

Best to stop putting meat in the bin, then. Even if your council doesn't do food waste collections, probably you can find a way to solve this problem (the problem of wasted meat making your bin smell) for yourself, if it is actually a problem for you, I suppose.

I’m pretty sure you are not allowed to put household rubbish in public bins. That said, I wouldn’t be bothered if someone did it, unless they were completely filling it when it was needed for others as they went by.

Let’s say 2 bags a day for 2 weeks, that soon adds up.

Even if its human waste?

You shouldn't put meat in the compost bin. It does seem kind of rank putting nappies and food in public bins.

It just dawned on me we could compost cardboard, need to look into this more