Throwing rubbish away in public bins?

[GreenSkittles]

I am a borderline hoarder and I'm trying to declutter and doing quite well at it.

My problem is that I have no car, the tip isn't accessible, the council charges £18 to take away 5 items of any size, and my green bin was recently replaced with a smaller one to 'encourage recycling'. Both bins are full - and one won't be collected for ten days!

Is it acceptable to take a carrier bag of rubbish out with me every day to dispose of in a public litter bin? It would be general rubbish plus proabbly a few VHS tapes, etc. Just to thin things out while I wait for a bin to be freed up again!

I saw a woman walking through the park with a bin bag the other day merrily posting one or two items in every bin, a lot of it was books and shoes, I don't know why she didn't take them to a charity shop.

There is someone on our street who keeps emptying their bathroom bin into the bin near the corner shop. It is always overflowing and the street ends up being littered in used sanitary towels

Do you know anyone with a car who might be willing to give you a lift to the tip with some bags of rubbish?

My family are the types who always offer help, but then panic when I try to take them up on it! My house isn't toooo bad. A lot of the clutter now is clothes and books and my sons old toys and I know I can offload those to the local charity shops. And I will find out how much it will cost me in postage to send 100 VHS tapes off to that recycling site!

I did think about hiring a van, but you need a license to take vans into our nearest tip now.

I would try putting the vhs tapes on freestyle-someone will want them for sure

Freecycle!!

Could you ask your neighbours? If they are going on holiday their bins might not be getting used much, if you offered to put it out from them they would probably be happy for you to put some stuff in.

I do this, our bins are emptied evert 2 weeks and it doesn't matter how I tie things up I get maggots so all our leftovers go in a carrier bag and binned in a council bin. I'm not having fish guts in my bin for 2 weeks.

Check your council's waste website. I was astonished and pleased to discover we could supply our own bins, so got a tall wheelie bin from Homebase which eased the pressure (1 DC in nappies). Local hardware stores are amazing treasure troves, for bins and boxes and the like, so you needn't go as far as Homebase.

Are any neighbours going on holidays, and would let you use their bins for the week?

I could not work-out how to start a new thread, having been on this site for less than an hour.
I don't what my landlord to know how many beers I'm having; he's a piss-head anyway, It's just a little embarrassing for me.
My two tips: do not put anything that identifies you in the garbage when you dump into public bins. If you have to use a food garbage bin, leave the lid open.Seagulls, foxes and so many other animals will empty it for you. There are many "urban" versions of animals that have learned eating our garbage is so much more efficient to them, than chasing nature.

I just read a 5 year old thread about bins. I think it's time I had a break from MN...