CF neighbour AIBU

[Crispandco]

AIBU?
Our general waste bin is collected every three weeks, and recycling every two weeks. It’s a relatively new system, and as a family of four, our black bin is always full by collection day.
Our black bin was collected last Tuesday, so we still have another two weeks to go before it’s emptied again.
Anyway, back to the AIBU bit. My CF neighbour put two black bin bags in our bin (one small and one large). Her bin is already full, so I think she’s having a clear-out.
I didn’t actually see her do it, but my neighbour from across the road, who I’m friends with, did.
I’m not sure whether I should say anything, but it’s really annoyed me. Am I being petty?
They’re elderly, so maybe she doesn’t want to go to the tip, but it also means we’ll probably have to make a trip to the tip ourselves now.

Just take them back round and have a word about using your bins; you don’t have the space.

Could you say “Sorry Mrs X, you seem to have got the black bins mixed up and put your bin liners in our bin by mistake. I’ve brought them back as otherwise we won’t have room for our bin bags.”
Smile brightly and leave.
As previous posters have commented, get a bin lock.

Wondering if you’re in the same council as me, weekly general bin collection and weekly recycling. Recycling is the orange bags so everything just goes into the bag together - paper, plastic, glass, cardboard etc all in the same bag, we can have 5 bulky items like furniture or 15 bags of garden waste collected for free every 2 months and if we need an extra it’s £5 per collection.

I have to confess that occasionally I put a bag in my neighbour’s bin, but only if it is about 11pm the night before bin day and her bin has plenty of space. She lives alone and I have a six year old and she seems to generate much less rubbish than us!

If we want bulky items, it’s £60 for 5 items.

Do you ask her or just chuck the bag in?

Ohh and we also have a green bin for green waste, but you have to pay £50 for six months, and you have to register it, which is emptied on the recycling weeks.

I don't think you need to say anything. Just dump the bin bags on her step. Or put them back in her bin if accessible. She will know immediately that she has been caught out and will be too embarrassed to say anything

Not a bin but a skip which I hired a while back when my kitchen and bathroom were being refurbished. The skip was on my drive behind locked gates so should have been free of neighbourly interference. One morning I found that 6 bags of waste had been thrown over the fence with the aim of lobbing them into the skip. However only two had made it. The rest were in my garden. One of my workmen had arrived early and was sitting in his van across the road. He saw it was a neighbour who then drove off to work. The 6 black bags were duly dumped on his front door step. One or two had split and the rubbish was leaking out. Oh dear. He would have had to move them to get in his front door when he returned.

It never happened again.

I can be a bitch when someone tries it on with me.

Don't do this. I get up at 7am specially to put out all my bins on bin day so that I don't have any manky waste hanging about in my house for the following week. If a neighbour had used up the space in the dead of night I'd be royally pee'd off.
What a fucking liberty.

Maybe… We do have the orange sacks. But I just looked up the bulky collections and it’s 4 items twice a year now (could have sworn it used to be three times). Plus the mega skips. SW London??

I think your friend did it. 🤣

Our landfill waste bin gets collected every four weeks and that's been the case since we moved here 12 years ago. We have one normal sized wheelie bin and that's all they will uplift, but I can count on one hand the number of times we've had to make an extra trip to the tip. It doesn't get smelly because our food waste goes in a separate bin that gets collected weekly, and when the kids were younger nappies were collected weekly in a special bag to be taken away for recycling. We also rinse out all our plastics and tins so there's no food festering in the recycling bins which each get collected fortnightly (we have one for paper and card and a separate one for plastic and tins and they get collected on alternate weeks). We have to pay for any bulk uplifts so you're really lucky to get that done for free, and it must be becoming very unusual to have a weekly uplift of landfill waste.

3 weekly general waste collections for me as well. Absolutely no way would I let someone dump their crap in my bin. I’d be taking it back round with an unfortunate rip in each bag as it reached their garden

And what with the bizarre suggestion to take offer to their smelly bags in your car for a couple of quid (if that) petrol money - really!

Can already see where this is heading... This Is gonna be bin gate very soon... You need to nip this in the bud before you end up with them giving you car fulls of stuff to take to the tip and if you ever get a skip it will be filled for you...
Give some people an inch and they will take a mile...
I suspect more threads will follow this about these cfs 🤣

That's cheap. Ours is £90 per year.

@Bitzee No, East Mids so looks like there are at least 2 councils still doing more than once every 3 week collections 😀

Take it out and put them on her doorstep!!

You just take the bags out and put them on CF's doorstep, surely?

It’s ok, I know my neighbour definitely doesn’t do this.

Have they gone in your garden to do this or was your bin on the street?

I don’t ask her if it’s very late but I do if I think there’s a chance she might want to put extra rubbish in, of course.

I would give them back and ask them politely not to do it again. Rude!!

On our drive at the bottom, so she would’ve walked up to put them in. We have a drive that fits three cars on. With the garage at the bottom, but it’s along side our garden, if that makes any sense 😂

I agree with others, take them out and put them on her doorstep/garden.

More expensive than yours? I thought they were roughly £80-100 a year everywhere.