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?

If it was on top of the bin bag, you could have easily taken it out without having to 'dig around '

Wow, some of the replies about bins and half a rice cake.

No wonder this country is filthy.

Fuck sake I had to go back and read your opening post because judging by some of these responses anyone would think you had been fly tipping not putting a bit of a rice cake in a bin lol

First thought is surely it's not a problem but then I thought all my rubbish in bins is bagged so I actually wouldn't be happy about random loose items in there to maybe get stuck and get stinky.

Our neighbour leaves their bin out on the pavement because they're too lazy to drag it back around onto their property. I put my dog poo bags in it.

YANBU

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How embarrassing for the OP not to take it out when requested (before shouting following OP’s refusal). Just dispose of your litter in a public bin or take it home

Yeah - same here. Ours put stickers on our ‚regular’ bins saying ‚Please don’t feed me’ to guard against the evils of food waste such as half a rice cake 🤣

Half a rice cake is hardly the end of the world, at least it wasn’t a cat you put in her bin!

My area has changed to fortnightly collections and residents who want a bigger bin have been charged £38 for one.
Some families can’t afford that and are trying to make do but are struggling with the smaller bin being emptied every 14 days rather than the previous 7.
I can imagine strangers putting rubbish in their bin would be annoying.

You don’t live in space. People complaining about this are mad.

If you did that to my bin, the binmen wouldn't take it. Anything not in a black bag and they refuse it and you were extremely rude to refuse to remove it when asked to. Disgusting example to set for your child.

Actually we paid for our Wheely bin, so it is ours, not the Councils. The tiny ones were free, the usual sized ones were £35.

We have to put stuff in black sacks, so I am guessing your half a rice cake would have slid off the bag to the bottom of the bin, requiring me to fish it out later.

I probably wouldn't have had a go as I don't like confrontation, but I would have been mightily pissed off with you

Honestly OP, people are Batshit. What a petty thing to get worked up about and she should be embarrassed at her lack of kindness.

Do you live somewhere where rubbish goes in black sacks in the bin? If so totally unreasonable to throw anything in on top of a bin bag as it could make the bin dirty. You're not going to scrub manky wet rice cake out the bottom of the bin are you?

You were really rude. Nothing goes in my bin unless it’s bagged up to make cleaning it easier. I don’t want anyone loose in it, especially food that’s going to rot.

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I would’ve probs just left on the floor. Some animal would eat it no doubt!

such a weird thing to get upset over. As long as someone isn’t shitting in my bin I couldn’t give a toss

A rice cake? 😂

Fucking hell, mightily pissed off really?

Fish and a rice cake.

But it's fine that the owner of the bin has to do it for you to get the bin sorted? Great attitude.

It's fine. It's a small thing. Dog poo is different or chucking a whole bag of rubbish in there as it takes up space they turn can't use and dog poo could go everywhere. I'd rather people put it in the bin than littered the street.

Wouldn't care as long as they use the right bin. Rubbish in my garden bin gives me the rage. They are side by side, against my outside wall so it's really not hard

Are people seriously concerned about half a rice cake going in their bin? A rice cake? Bloody hell 😂 it’s a bin!

YABU.
The woman just saw you lob something in HER bin! She wouldn't have a clue it was a rice cake, dog shit, used nappy or something else.

Yes- after she had to ask you, you claimed it was a rice cake, but how would she know that was the truth?
You could have left it on the back/bottom of the pram to take home or put in a public bin!