to be effing FURIOUS that YET AGAIN some (*&&% has dumped their binbags into my wheelie bin, filling it so I can't get my rubbish in?

[TheAntiFlounce]

And it's collection day today!

I have taken their bags out, put them on a grass verge about 300 metres away, but I did this last night and some cheeky fucker went and put them back next to my bin.

they are NOT mine, I KNOW they are not mine, I've been through them.

What can I do though? Am I going to get done for fly tipping because someone else is stealing my binspace?

This would make me mad.

Have to admit I have left rubbish in a neighbours bin before but only when it had obviously been put out for collection (you have to take the bins onto the road off the driveway where we live so it was obvious).

Wouldn't mind someone doing the same back to me but to fill your bin up the night before collection is unbelievably rude.

We have a shared driveway with both bins kept at the bottom. We get on well with our neighbours (now that we have new ones! ) and we use them jointly, filling one before starting to use the other. We take great pleasure in the fact that between us some weeks the one bin is still only half full (still have weekly collections here in Glasgow).

Our previous neughbours, as well as trying ti insist that all seven bins (3 green bins - one extra as they had "acquiered" one - two brown/garden waste bins and two blue/recyclable bins) should be kept round the back on our half of the garden as "that's where they have always been kept"

They got a shock when we insisted that they take away the extra green bin and put the brown bin on thier side. They tried to tell us to get the council to take away the blue bins but we told them that even if they didn't want to recycle, we did - so they then took away "their" blue bin and the extra green bin.

As soon as they moved, we moved all the bins down to near the front gate (on communcal ground) - and that is where our new neighbortus are happy to leave them.

Don't know what the old neghbours used to do to generate rubbish, but there would frequently be three bins full and only a quarter of one would our rubbish.

Check for enveloppes or names on letters etc and report them to the council.

and in the meantime, get a bike lock and padlock so that only you can put stuff in the bin. Cheeky wotsits!!

If we had a lot of rubbish or recycling we would put it in the lady next doors bin but not until she had put it out (we kept them in the back garden) She didn't even know we had filled it because she was finished. If anyone had filled ours up before I could I would be very angry.

We now get the sacks picked up weekly (we moved) so there isn't this problem.

padlock your bin and keep it in your garage or around the back under a motion detector light.

this is what happens when councils go to fortnightly collections.

Dont have a garage, can''t get the bin round to my back garden, grr grr grr. Have been eying up those pull-pin rape alarms on ebay!

lock it then.

drill a hole in lid and in base and put a bike lock on it.

Thats what we've done Expat...cost us just over £20 for 3 bike locks but they are well worth the money.

Righto. Do I nned a special sort of drill, do you know? Or will any do?

I have a nice bin story........ I completely forgot to put my bin out between Christmas and New Year, one morning i got up and looked out and saw everyones bins out so i rushed downstairs to put mine out and it was already out!! I got on the blower to my lovely neighbours husband to say ta and it wasnt him as they'd nearly forgotten too,,, so it appears i have a very nice bin fairy who puts mine out when i forget!!

I would have though any old drill would do it TBH.

no, you don't need a special drill, just the right bit.

ask any employee in B&Q and they should be able to direct you.

maybe even bring your drill in with you to make sure the bit fits.

Oh thanks guys. I bet everyone here who is replying so helpfully is also on this stupid fortnightly collections scheme!

many places that have introduced fortnightly collections now have this problem and/or increased flytipping.