What is the etiquette when neighbours recycling ends up in your driveway

[StartedWithACrisp]

So my neighbour is very haphazard with their recycling bin, and bins in general, but it tends to be the plastic food wrappers and paper that flies out of it and ends up in my driveway and by my front door.

I don't mind the usual post papers, but things like crisp packets and kfc wrappings tend to make my stomach turn a bit when I have to pick them up.

Would you..

• Throw it in your own bin, or
• discreetly throw it back over the small wall to their side
• talk to them about it, though this is the most awkward non-english style method haha. and If so what would you say to be peaceful.
• just wait to let it blow off somewhere else in the street
• other

I’d bag it up and put it back on their driveway. So you’re not dumping it everywhere but also making the point you don’t want their shite all over your drive.

Pick it up, put it in my bin and next time I see them, just ask them not to stuff their bin so full/ remember to put the lid on or whatever.

Pretty simple,really.

Depends how much there is, a few bits would go in my bins, the whole contents spilled over my drive would get bagged up and popped by their front door or I would knock and ask them to do it ( depends on my mood! )

We have this problem too, last week I had an entire massive cardboard box on our drive which had then got soggy from the rain. I had to cram it in our bin which was already full. Was fuming but said nothing as I wasn't sure whose bin it had come from but it definitely wasn't ours.

Our won't recycle wet cardboard so would have had to put it in the shed to dry. If it was an Amazon or similar with the address on I would return it to them. If random rubbish you can't identify I would put it in my bin. You can't recycle KFC wrappers or any plastic food containers that haven't been washed here either so they would go in black bag waste.

Not the point of the thread but dirty food wrappings can't usually be recycled. They need to be putting them in the proper bin.

Talk to them. Tell them their rubbish ends up on your drive. You can buy nets to put over the boxes so suggest that.

This. It's the grown up response

@StartedWithACrisp do your bins not have lids?? our bin men refuse to empty the bins if the lid is not fully closed. no other boxes or bags are allowed to be left by the bins!

1. When you say "bin", is that a proper bin with a lud, or one of those stupid open boxes some councils provide for paper?

If the latter, I'm not surprised that stiff blows out of them. Complain to the council.

2. Crisp packets cannot be recycled AFAIK, nor can wrappers contaminated with food, grease etc. Check your council website about what can and can''t be recycled. If necessary, tell the council there's a problem and ask that reminders be distributed on your street

Good-naturedly pick it up and dispose of it in your own bins then curse them as soon as you're behind your front door for being so stupid and such poor neighbours that they can't manage to stop their rubbish and recycling blowing all over the fucking place every time it's windy, and then don't bother to pick it up when they can see that it's all over my garden and drive and all over the road.

You could do something like that. 😁

I think I should probably speak to them, but really they can see it as well as I can see it, so the situation doesn't need me to offer a solution. What even is the solution? Make sure you pick up your shit after a windy night?

I have the same problem here. Some people are a bit careless but wrappers generally should go in the closed lid bin, not the open recycling one we have for plastic bottles, food containers and so on. Get yourself a leaf picker so you don't have to handle wrappers etc. They're light, easy to use and cheap to buy. They sell them in the pound shop here.

I'm at the end of a cul de sac, so in windy weather, any stray rubbish tends to end up in my front garden. There's no way of telling where it originated. I pick it up with a long handled litter picker and dispose of it in the appropriate bin.

People are asking if the bins don't have lids. If the wind can take the roof off a house, don't you think it can open the lid on a wheelie bin?