To throw half a rice cake into strangers bin?

[Honeybuney]

I was on my way home from the school run with my 18 month old and older child. Baby had a ricecake with he threw onto the floor, out of the pram. I was in an alleyway type of street with no public bins. I picked up the rice cake and threw it into a wheelie bin which was partially full. As I was doing this, the lady whose house it was, was on her way out. She asked me what I was doing and I explained.

She asked me to take the rice cake out of her bin. Which I did not and continued walking. As I walked off, she was shouting and being quite aggressive. I was with my two kids so just ignored. But was I wrong?

Was it the right bin? If there was a rice cake at the top of my recycling bin they wouldn't empty it at all.

I normally do take my rubbish home with me, my pockets are full off baby biscotti wrappers at the moment lol. Just because where it had dropped it was dirty when I picked it up, I didn’t want to carry that home. But now I know for next time. Thanks everyone for your replies.

Yes it was.

Something small like that not in the bin bag would annoy me. Almost impossible to put of bottom of bin and may be refused by Council.

I get annoyed with poo bags !!!!!
Take them home or put in public bin!

Ditto alcohol containers.

Get out of wheelie bin I mean.

Our bins cot £90 each for the general waste and green waste bin. Food waste bin was "free". Although, we do pay £2200 in council tax a year. Garden waste is £90 and then an annual payment of £100. Definitely not free here.

Nah, it's a bin. For rubbish.

If it was dog shite or whatever then obviously don't use a random wheelie bin, but for just a bit of rubbish? Crack on. Can't imagine how fucking petty you have to be to get upset about something like that.

Putting loose food items into a bin could mean the dustmen refuse to take anything and leave the whole bin un-emptied. Or the owner could face a fine/refusal of service.
You must know that as you don't put it that way in your own bins. She didn't need to be abusive but to politely ask you to not do that/take it out is reasonable.
You could've just waited for a street waste bin or taken it home really. It could be she's had issues with people filling her bins in the past. You can't be the only one who's thought 'oh, I'm sure it's fine'.

You were in the wrong. Where i live you’d have caused my bin to not be emptied. Just sling it in the bottom of your pram and take your litter home.

@Honeybuney that is actually classed as flytipping!

Our bin men wouldn't take cycling or general waste with a rice cake visible. The would put a sticker on it and I'd have to wait 2 weeks for the next collection or drive to the dump. It's a ball ache.

Really ?

You do seem to have been quite rude though, OP. She asked you to take it out, "which I did not". Then you "just walked away". I'm not surprised she shouted really, in the face of such arrogance. Did you apologise at any point?

Is this serious? What sort of arsehole gets the hump because someone puts a half eaten rice cake in their bin? Someone with no life clearly, sad sad individual! Pay no mind to it OP!

Absolutely 👏

I can see why she was annoyed. My bin men take the black bags but leave anything loose. I’ve had half a kfc takeaway I've had to pick out from the bottom and half a soggy rice cake would get stuck and have to be cleaned out before getting mouldy etc etc

i find it irritating that my bin men don’t use the lifty uppy thing for the black bin but do for the recycling wheelie

actually thinking about the hellishness of half chewed rice cake it probably would get stuck like concrete on the inside and be a hassle to clean!!

I was not gonna to go digging in a halfway full bin for a half eaten rice cake. I walked away as I noticed her tone was quite rude and of course then, she became aggressive.

Depends if it is the right bin. I still think you should have taken it home. I live rurally and have had people walk post and drop dog poo in my bin which really smells and is totally the wrong disposal process.

Something like dog poo, I wouldn’t even think about putting it into a strangers bin.

But it's okay for her to dig in a halfway full bin for your kids, germy, half eaten rice cake. It's your waste. Take it home.

Some crazy replies here. It's a rubbish bin - for running! What difference does it make to her (or anyone for that natter?)

Maybe I live in space. In my area, the bin men would just empty the bin as normal. It was sticky and on top of the bin bag so I’m sure when it’s emptied it will fall out with the rubbish. There would be no reason for her to dig it out either.

You should have left it on the ground for the birds.

I think the worst bit is ignoring her when she asked you to take it out.

What you did was cheeky and going off this thread something a lot of us wouldn’t like. She objected and, regardless of whether you, I or anyone else thinks that’s petty, you should have removed it or as a minimum declined with an apology. Really arrogant.