Whellie bin theft

lkmc01

Hi

My whellie bin gets collected at 7am in the morning and has been stolen twice now before I get the chance to move it around the back of the house. The council now want to charge me £25 for a new one regardless of my police crime ref number. :mad:

Does anyone else use a bike lock or something similiar at the front of their house to make sure it doesnt get stolen. Do you then give the code or padlock to the bin men to unlock your bin?

JethroUK

lkmc01 wrote: »

Hi

My whellie bin gets collected at 7am in the morning and has been stolen twice now before I get the chance to move it around the back of the house. The council now want to charge me £25 for a new one regardless of my police crime ref number. :mad:

Does anyone else use a bike lock or something similiar at the front of their house to make sure it doesnt get stolen. Do you then give the code or padlock to the bin men to unlock your bin?

£25 seems cheap - council must be paying 4 or 5 times that

Might be worth branding/melting your house number and postcode on your new one - doesn't guarantee it wont get nicked - but would make it too difficult for the thief to use (or sell) so they'll prolly nick someone else's instead

i keep meaning to do mine

nickj_2

the bin mem aren't going to faff around unlocking your bin , if everyone did that you would probably only get your rubbish collected once a month .

as jethro has said , mark your bin with your address or postcode on it ,

Sooki

One of our old neighbours took our bin when he moved, weird or what?

Councils can be strict with bins, but I'd argue that you are paying for this service and have paid for it already.

There is obviously an issue somewhere either possibly Some one has took it so they can have double rubbish, or the bin men are not putting the bin back effectively allowing someone to be gifted an additional bin. They should be on the look out for this and charge the two bin person/s for the additional service, not penalise the wronged party.

When you get your new bin ask the council to act with responsibility and mark mark the bin clearly & indelibly (if not do this yourself) this should deter the thief and if not At least make the thief easy to trace.

lkmc01

My address was on the bin. It makes no difference

dacouch

I see some bins with highly patterned sticky back plastic over large portions of them.

I assume this puts people off stealing it in preference for a plain bin and if it's stolen easier to notice.

They sell the sticky back plastic in the pound shops

gibson123

I remember seeing a programme once about burglars and how they used bins when breaking into houses because people don't question you wheeling the bin down the street, the police should really take this more seriously.

Doesn't help your problem, but I have found that by being nice to the neighbours, taking in their bin for them, that they have started taking mine in when I am not around. Is this an option?

McKneff

We have ordinary dustbins but the garden ones are Wheelie bins.

I refused to have one because the council website says, if they get damaged, lost or stolen, it will cost £95 to replace them. Dream on.

I'm quite happy to take my garden rubbish to the tip.

smudger1964

It happened to me the other month,I got a pot of white gloss paint and painted my house number and road name on every side of the new bin and on the lid and inside the bin.It doesnt look very nice but hopefully that will stop them stealing it again as thats got to be a lot of work to scrape off all that gloss paint

Nilrem

Have you contacted the local bin collection people?
I ask as around our way for a while bins kept disappearing, it turned out one of the bin lorries had a fault and was letting them fall into the back of the truck!
We found out because over the space of a few weeks several went missing and one of the bin men mentioned the fault.

googler

Nilrem wrote: »

Have you contacted the local bin collection people?
I ask as around our way for a while bins kept disappearing, it turned out one of the bin lorries had a fault and was letting them fall into the back of the truck!
We found out because over the space of a few weeks several went missing and one of the bin men mentioned the fault.

Sorry, find this a bit hard to accept; the operatives wheel two bins up to the back of the truck, press button to empty them, and don't notice that only one comes back off the truck...?