In thinking it's a bit cheeky to use someone's dustbin?

[pigsinmud]

Earlier today a car pulls up, woman jumps out and opens back door. She takes various bits of rubbish from small child, turns round, walks towards my house and throws it in my dustbin. I think that she was a bit bloody cheeky! There's a street rubbish bin opposite.

Now obviously I'm glad she didn't just throw the rubbish on the floor, but surely you just take your rubbish home and put it in your own bin don't you?

AIBU In thinking she was cheeky? I was on the phone to a friend at the time and she wanted me to go and shout at her!

If it were a skip full of rubbish, then its not on. If its a sweet wrapper then who gives a crap.

It all ends up in the same landfill anyway. Get angry about something that matters...

Mingg... where do you live [vengeful emoticon]

It does matter if it is by weight, if the bin men do not take loose things or if the colelction is every second week.

Full disclaimer...... I have been known (one occasion promise!) to put empty wine bottles in the recycling of our teetotaller neighbours after a Christmas party. . So I am not wholly blameless.

Where do you live? Empty wine bottles seem to appear in my recycling bin on regular intervals?

I am very surprised that people think it is OK. IMO - it is certainly not OK!

Reasons that have already been mentioned - space, weight...etc

Although the bins are owned by the council, the person who has the bin is responsible for cleaning it. I never put anything in mine that is not in a strong binbag (my choice, not a requirement) so I would be annoyed if people put loose rubbish in it.

Also, what if you were deliberately keeping your bin empty as you were going on holiday and wouldn't be putting it out for emptying and some lazy passer by puts their rubbish in - it is just not OK to use someone's facilities.

Do you lot think that if someone lives in a council house, that because it is "owned" by the council, random passers by can come in and use the toilet etc? Of course not. All the bins are owned by the council but they are for the benefit and responsibility of the people how have been allocated them.

It is very rude and displays a sense of entitlement. If you have rubbish, you should use your own facilities/public facilities to dispose of it.

Hmmm... a stand off.

Actually, I felt so guilty when I dumped the wine bottles in the neighbour's recycling that I had to come clean to them.

YANBU in my view. I have inconsiderate neighbours who dump their stinking rubbish in my bin at any opportunity. It fills up my bin, they don't bag it so it spills out - fag ash, old tins of beans etc and pollutes the bin. They generate so much crap that they must fill their own bin out and then sneak around filling someone elses.

TheFruitWhisperer - I was not exactly angry, just shocked that someone would come in to my front garden and use the bin. I mean if I had a chair in my front garden I wouldn't expect someone to come through the gate and have a sit down just because they were tired. Let alone the fact she pulled up in her car. She had to come in to the garden, through the gate - not just lean over the wall.

Anya - I only used the bin because it was on the road (not on the pavement, not in anyone's garden) and I knew the binmen were coming within the next 2 hours. My DS is absolutely fascinated by the binmen so I am very familiar with their timetable.

Someone does fill my recycling bin with empty bottles though...

Ming you said on the last page that the bin was empty, now you are saying that the binmen hadn't been yet? If it was empty then your dog poop would be festering for 2 weeks in that guy's wheelie bin.

Oh lord...

The bin was empty - the binmen were coming around within the next 2 hours. Our binmen come once a week so the bins in our area are always half empty some completely empty. The binmen empty all the bins unless they are empty to start off with. This bin was empty with the exception of my dog's poop bag so it got emptied. The poop did NOT fester in that guy's bin for longer than 2 hours.

ming - how do you know? Did you go back to check?

Anyway, going to be emptied or not, putting your dog poo in someone else's bin is incredibly rude and I'm not suprised he came out and had words with you!

Perhaps you'd like to read my earlier posts for a response??? And it is Mingg not Ming.

I've read all of your posts - still haven't found anything that makes dumping your dog crap in someone else's bin acceptable.

Oh & by the way - do get over yourself...Mingg

YANBU. Someone once left a bottle of piss in our bin. I was unaware until I watched the binman collect the rubbish and mutter to his colleague 'Dirty bastard!'. I couldn't understand what he was on about so went out to look. Was that he might have thought it was something to do with us, and that I had to clean it out or put up with the smell of warm, stale wee.

Having said that if it had just been a couple of bits of rubbish it would not have been too bad, but our binmen don't take rubbish that is not bagged up so still would have been an inconvenience to me.

I am "over myself", rude of you to call me Ming though.

I never said it was acceptable and as far as I can see you were asking how do I know the bin was emptied "how do you know? Did you go back to check?" and the answer to that is in my previous posts.

I haven't done this but I have been walking through our residential area (so no street bins) sometimes, having finished a drink and wondered about putting it in a bin left out for collection. I haven't done it and would only consider it if the bin was out on the street. Wouldnt't mind if someone put something in my bin. We're not chargee by weight so I find it hard to be territorial about a bin.

Last night I spotted my neighbour approaching our recycling bin with a wheelbarrow - I know they often put some scraps in there which doesn't overly bother me, but I did wonder what was going to come out of a wheelbarrow, so I popped out to see. And he carefully placed a dead chicken (partly eaten by the foxes) into our bin, and carefully covered it with grass cuttings so the binmen wouldn't see it. The bin was emptied this morning, so I feel a certain amount of relief, it's fair to say! Incidentally, our recycling does permit inclusion of meat and bones, but I'm not sure that a partly consumed chicken is really in the spirit of things.

If there was enough room in your bin to accomodate the rubbish without it causing you any problems, YABU.

If your bin was filled right up to the top and someone adding their rubbish left the bin overflowing and propped open and there's a risk of the council not emptying it, then YANBU.

Where I live the wheelie bin lid has to be completely closed or they refuse to empty it. Someone once came in the middle of the night and put a carrier bag full of plastic and tins which hadn't been cleaned in my normal waste bin. I then had to wash and recycle it or I would have been the one in trouble for not sorting it out. That was annoying.

YANBU at all. I really hate that. Our neighbour's daughter always does this and where we live you can get a fine for having the wrong recyclables in the wrong bin and she was always doing this. I literally had to move our bins from the pavement just outside our house to right by the door. If she ever throws anything in there then I will have strong words with her for trespassing. I just always wondered why she couldnt use her own bin. I certainly do not use other people's bins to throw my rubbish in as I think it is an invasion of someone's space ESPECIALLY if you have to enter their land. So no YANBU

I'm staggered at all the people who think YABU.
I'd be cross too, and would have nipped out and asked her what on earth she thought she was doing and to take her rubbish home with her and put it in her own bin.