My wheelie bin has been filled with someone else's rubbish

mazinmouse

"Since it isn't your rubbish and if the council look through it to see who dumped it it won't come back to you, so empty it out."

But you are then flytipping!

Young_Aged_Pensioner

I have the same problem of other people putting their rubbish in my bin, I just lift it out and leave it at the side, with fortnightly collection there is hardly room for my own rubbish never mind someone else's.

iceicebaby

Oh god bins!

We have 3 per house here, the normal wheelie bin, another wheelie bin for recycling and a food waste bin. Its a free for all in my street with the bins and I'd be lucky when I got home if at least 1 of the bins had not gone for a walk!

My neighbour and I now have a pact. I work in the day and she works in the night so I put mine and her bins out about 6 am in the morning as she does not come home till 8 am and the lorry comes round at 7. I go to work and then as soon as she comes home from work, she collects my bins and hers and puts them round the back of our houses. Therefore the bins are hardly outside for any length if time to be topped up with other peoples rubbish or stolen!

Spartacus_Mills

SimonJB wrote: »

If the bin allows drill a hole through the lid and bin and attatch a padlock. (Once you get it back)

Then chain it to something solid.

I keep mine locked in my garage.

foogirl1983

I can't quite believe people are so devious with bins!

davidlizard

There used to be big problems with bins getting stolen or filled with other peoples rubbish where we used to live. This was in part caused by the council only giving people tiny bins, and emptying them fortnightly (or monthly if your collection day was a bank holiday) and charging £120 for a replacement bin if yours was lost or damaged - which of course created a thriving black market in wheely bins being stolen all over the place.

We ended up keeping the thing round the back of the house, and wheeling it round the front when we heard the dustmen, watching it being emptied and then taking it back round the back of the house again.

The council or the police could not give a stuff, and even prosecuted people who had others dump their rubbish in their recylcing bin.

When the councils start charging per weight collected, then everyone will need locks on their bins.

superscaper

davidlizard wrote: »

and charging £120 for a replacement bin if yours was lost or damaged - which of course created a thriving black market in wheely bins being stolen all over the place.

Not sure how that's justified, that sound like punitive charges which I think if anyone bothered to challenge would be found to be illegal.

In my area they don't charge for replacement bins that are lost, stolen etc.

Bowling_4_Gold

I don't understand - Why would someone want to steal a wheelie bin?! Round here, we just pile the good old fashioned bin bags at the end of our road...

wuckfit

Bowling_4_Gold wrote: »

I don't understand - Why would someone want to steal a wheelie bin?! Round here, we just pile the good old fashioned bin bags at the end of our road...

Mainly because some councils are becoming more officious and beauracratic regarding refuse collections. Bin men are increasingly being told not to uplift rubbish that is not in the appropriate bin, or bins whose lids won't close properly...

superscaper

Bowling_4_Gold wrote: »

I don't understand - Why would someone want to steal a wheelie bin?! Round here, we just pile the good old fashioned bin bags at the end of our road...

I think most regions use wheelie bins now. Certainly in every region I've lived in, leaving a black bin bag out simply means you're left with a rotting black bin bag on the road. They're not collected at all.