To find this disgusting?

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There’s still a week before bin collection and this is the state of my neighbours.

This isn’t a one off. It’s constantly like this. Both normal and recycling. Sick of living near tramps that don’t care.

@usernamealreadytaken definitely I would 🙂
(if the council provided ones are big enough)

They are lucky they don't live where I used to live. Bins are not meant to be put out before 7pm the night before bin collection. We put ours out at 6.50 once as we were going out and not getting back until the next morning, and got a snotty letter from the council about it. Apparently we should have waited another 2 weeks! A neighbour had complained, which was why they knew the exact time it went out.

If it's your bin then the insult fits...

Thats uncalled for no one is a tramp.

Tricky when so many items still come in such excessive (and often eco-unfriendly) packaging.

Well that's my bin every week 🤣 must be a tramp eh? Nothing to do with the fact that I have to fit two weeks worth of rubbish for a family of four plus 3 animals into small bins that are only collected every two weeks 🙄.

Sorry but this would infuriate me. Unsure if it’s a recycling bin as it’s a cardboard box which has not been flattened. Surely doing that may have meant the bin lid could be closed.
people can be so lazy. I don’t want to pick up litter in my garden from other peoples overflowing bins.
A relative lives in a flat with a communal bin shed. Some people put full boxes in meaning it affects everyone else. lazy people!

Where I live the lid has to close otherwise it won’t be emptied. You are allowed to put additional recyclables in sealed bags next to the recycling bin on collection day only but not additional waste. If you have additional waste you are expected to go to the tip or pay for an additional bin. Looks to me like minimum they could break the packaging up to flatten it and leave them in in until collection day.

Not just nicer, but more in keeping with public health. Maggots = flies, bluebottles etc which carry nasties. This fortnightly bin collection idea seems to have forgotten the purpose of rubbish collection, which is not recycling but the prevention of vermin and disease. Complain to the council about insanitary bin collection rotas, not to your neighbours.
When we all go down with typhus perhaps someone will realise that getting rid of rubbish is a public health issue esp in summer.

They sound a pain so I hope the moan helped! Unfortunately, people like this are unlikely to change. You either have to put up with it, collect and dispose of it yourself or move house.

If they are a larger family, they could be entitled to an extra bin. We are a family of 8 and we are allocated an extra recycling and a non-recycling bin.

For the love of God, WHY are you taking photos of your neighbours wheelie bin and posting it irately on a forum???? Take some of the rubbish to the tip for them then, if it offends you 🤦🏼‍♀️

You’ve taken a photo of your neighbours bin 😂

Really can’t understand your ‘week to go’ point. My bin is usually totally full with a week to go. The council will not provide a larger one unless there are a certain number of people living in the house and there is no facility to buy or rent an additional one . I recycle everything I can and everything is compressed as much as possible . Luckily I have amazing neighbours who always have plenty of space in their bins and are happy for me to use it.

We don't even have wheelie bins! 3 black bags a fortnight and that's it

I had 2 massive wardrobes that came with loads of cardboard. Although I’d packed it neatly beside the bin, (I was new to recycling) they wouldn’t take it unless it was in the recycle bin. So I spent a few hours jumping up & down on it, & added a bit of water to the tougher cardboard. I managed to wedge every bit of it into the small recycle bin, with the help of a stick to podge it down. How they managed to get it out I’ve no idea, but they did.

So if I can go to all that trouble, so can they. Maybe I’ve lead a sheltered life, but I hadn’t had that much fun in years.

What really pisses me off though is not being able to put some things in the bin. Yet it’s OK to put dirty nappies & dog 💩 in there.

I must say that I could go 4 weeks before my ordinary rubbish bin needs emptying.

We had this issue with a neighbour over the backstreet from us, the next street along. They threw dirty nappies over their wall, for waste and anything else they could find. Rubbish was never bagged up and their bins were overflowing constantly with mess piled up against the wall. We live in a very nice area of town and to be experiencing this was awful. The neighbours on either side, myself and about 6 of our neighbours reported them to environmental health. We had rats and the rubbish was attracting seagulls which attacked anyone and we couldn’t use our gardens. They were watched once reported and a case file made. The neighbours on either side found out they were renting and didn’t own the home and they were eventually evicted. This was a long process but about 12 neighbours in total made a huge noise about it. It’s disgusting and a health risk.

My bins are like this every week without fail. General waste and recycling. I burn all the cardboard and it's still always overflowing. (As are many of my neighbours bins.)

What exactly should I do ?
Our local tip shut down last year and it's an absolute ballache to go to the other one.

If your that bothered offer a bit of space in your bin. What exactly are they meant to do.

Dont tell mums net tell them.... nicely of course.

I can sympathise with you OP - we live next to an alley and people are so lazy they throw the rubbish on the floor by the bin, leave the lids up , block bins with large boxes etc the flies are so bad that we cannot use our garden in the summer. My husband has to go out twice a week to help the refuse collectors ( they don’t pick things that are not in the bin). Looking at the picture your neighbour has the same issue as the people next door to us in that they don’t break down boxes etc just shove it in whole so that there is no space to add other things. Lots of people on here saying it’s the council providing small bins or not collecting regularly whilst there maybe some truth in this it’s also time that people took pride in their areas and actively fry things to keep them tidy rather than expect the council to fix it. If everyone picked up a couple of bits of rubbish a day our neighbourhoods would be so much nicer.

Perhaps suggest to them to request a bigger bin from the council, it shouldn't cost anything if the council is only replacing with a larger and taking the smaller one back

What kind of items? Toys? Nothing I buy regularly is that difficult to manage. I stack things like mushroom cartons and yoghurt pots together. Cardboard can be flattened.

When I go to the shops (Lidl mainly) I buy my goods and go to the side area to pack it properly in my bags. I take off lots of packaging there and then and put it in the shop's bins. This leaves me with less waste for my bin and if enough people did the same it might make shops think about all the unnecessary packaging - things like the nets on fruit and the trays and plastic you get 4 packs of tins in and wrappers on cucumbers/lettuces/cauli flowers etc.

@VeterinaryCareAssistant you do realise most of that packaging will end up in Lidl's landfill bin rather than being recycled.