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?

Have you tried producing less waste?

And unlike recycling bins, which are normally in places that you might be going anyway like the supermarket, tips will be in industrial estates where you never normally have another reason to go.

That's not always the case, though, is it? Where I live now, it's just off a main road ("main road" as in a road that goes from the ring road straight into the centre of town), and in another town I've lived in it's been down the road from the big supermarkets, and in another it's on a 30mph road between two villages.

If you can't cope with the waste produced by your dogs/children, don't have them.

Exactly. My local tip is only accessible by car - no walk ins as you drive up a big ramp to get to it and pedestrians are forbidden - and I don't have a car.

In this area people have been convicted of fly tipping for doing this.

How is it more disgusting that putting bags of dog crap in the same bin?

You need a car to do that. Our won't allow any "walk-ins".

How would one ' cope' with it? I don't understand this post

There will be another solution for excess waste.

I have never, ever heard of anyone trying to scrape out the contents of nappies before binning them. That doesn't happen.

They can cope. There's just some unusual people on here that don't like how they cope

Lots of people do tip solid toddler poos out of the nappy and down the loo before binning the disposables or nappy liners. It takes seconds if you change nappies in the bathroom, and makes your bins/the bins of the venue you're in significantly less noxious.

However I think you'd need to be a special sort of hero/insane to bring a pooey disposable nappy home from a picnic so you could tip it down the loo rather than just put it in the park bin, poo and all.

No, I haven’t either.

There is. I rarely have any and if I do, let's say once a year, I hire a car or pay the council to take it away. What it means though is I couldn't just pop by the tip like many people on here if I did have excess due to kids etc (I don't have children).

We've been on fortnightly collections for years - nothing smells and I have never once in my life seen a rat. We don't have separate food waste collections either - it all goes in the black bin.

It's not a sanitation issue if everything is bagged up properly and put in the bin. If people are just leaving rubbish on the streets then that's a different issue.

I used to tip toddler poop down the toilet.

Haha, I just came back to this post and didn't realise what a furore I would start re nappies in public bins.

To clear up a few things, we've always had fortnightly collections and after 2 weeks they do start to smell although it's never full. Our council doesn't do a separate food waste collection bin. I do tend to flush solid poos down the toilet but if there are less solid ones I must admit I don't go to the trouble of scraping out I just bin them. I don't put all my nappies in public bins it's only occasionally and only if it's right after bin collection day.

I take the suggestion of using reusable nappies however my youngest is a month or so off of potty training so that ship has sailed and soon this will not be an issue anymore and I can go back to being an upstanding citizen and not fly tipping my dirty nappies.

Me neither - I can vaguely see how this would work with toddler poop but there’s no way I’m trying to wrangle runny new baby poo out of a nappy before binning it.

I lived in a house converted to flats and someone who was in ine of them very temporarily (friend of the landlord) used to put their household rubbish in the litter bin outside the front rather than walk around the block to the bins at the rear. We all had letters from the council about it not being permitted and we would be fined if it happened again.

We've done it on holiday though when we arrived to a full wheelie bin.

My household waste is collected fortnightly and since recycling came along my normal waste bin is virtually empty, say a bin bag per week. I can't imagine it being fully to overflowing and needing to dump my waste in a public litter bin. My recycling bin is almost alway full.
I have just managed to get the council to empty a fairly large public bin on a walking route into our town as it was overflowing with dog poo bags and fast food packaging and stank. If I hadn't complained several times it would probably still need emptying as the council constantly want to save money.
I don't think I have ever put poo nappies in a public bin without 1disposing of the contents in a loo and always did the same at home.

This is a new low. We're arguing about bins and their contents

Really?!

I'm invested in this now. Our council have since removed this bin as residents were using it for household rubbish. Now there's more mess to litter pick....

The idea that removing a bin will result in less rubbish for the council to deal with is completely illogical, but your council isn’t alone in this fallacy.