Putting rubbish in other peoples bins?

fluffnutter

Bi-weekly collections are here to stay and, in the main, they've reduced the amount of waste people put in their black bins and saved councils money. Most people have just got used to them now and it's only the right-wing press that likes to chunter on about things and whip people up into a frenzy that's still moaning about them.

Heaven knows why the OP finds them so 'discusting' when she has almost double the bin space of everyone else anyway.

Torry_Quine

My bin goes out every fortnight but is never more than half full so a family should have plently of space. I also have a cat but changing the litter every day seems somewhat excessive to me.

System

My bin goes out once a fortnight, and theres only me here yet its always full. i have to admit if the shop below my flats bin is empty the night before it goes out, i will use that for excess rubbish. i wouldnt overfill it though. i have a blue bin but ever since we moved in have been unable to use it due to the LL's builders filling it with crap before we moved in. I wouldn't do it to someones personal bin though

marywooyeah

I live next door yo an old woman wno never fills her bin up, she lets us use the remainder and as a thank you we take the bin in and out for her. I think the main thing is the fact that other people think its ok to use the bin without asking that people find annoying.

butler_helen

oldgrumpygit wrote: »

Happened to friends of mine so they now lock their wheelie bin.

I did see a neighbour of mine once put some of his rubbish in my bin. So I went and took it back to him.

My one and only bin (no recycling ones) is behind a locked gate until I put it out for collection

We lived opposite a business who used our bins. I would take it back to their reception desk and ask if they'd like me to report their own bin being "missing" to the council. It took many many trips for them to stop using ours (it was branded waste so they weren't even clever enoug to hide it!).

We don't fill our bins and we are average at recycling, but I didn't own a house/live away from home before the two week rule.

timbo58

I am not at all sure it is 'fly tipping' to return rubbish placed wrongly in a bin to it's rightful owners.

I certainly did so when other businesses were using our large biffa bin (very expensive and paid for) some years ago.
We used distinctive sacks anything not in our sacks was dumped outside the bin and we let the council go through them and deal with the fly tippers directly.

TBH I don't see any distinction between a bin you have to pay for and one you pay council tax for -they are the same IMHO -the provider expects a financial benefit for collecting the refuse.
(I'm not even going to go into who has paid for each households bin i.e. Benefits or wages)

Therefore anyone who misuses bins (domestic or business) should be dealt with harshly.
I am not talking about someone with a mars bar wrapper putting it in my bin here -I'd rather that than chucking it on my drive, I'm talking about -'oh my bins full let's use next doors without even asking!'

I have 4 bins (PITA frankly) glass/paper&plastic/Green/other all collected bi weekly (which is also a PITA to remember what bin is going out when) and they all sit on the end of my drive 24/7 as I am lucky that my area is pretty decent, god forbid I had to lock them away!

The bloody council thought it fair that I was charged £40 for each bin when I moved in -despite the previous owner (repo) taking the damn things when they left!
I soon got that sorted out -you want to charge me £1k a year for council tax? - provide the damn bins then! Cheeky sods.

Mylo_The_Moggy

Its even worse when someone nicks your bin full of rubbish & sets it on fire on the back field!!!!
Which is precisely what happened to ours in the rented house we used to live in!

Also had a neighbour blatantly wheeling a replacement bin down to their garden & when confronted lied through their teeth about taking it. Excuse was they thought it was a spare bin so took it, even though it had our number brightly painted all over it, which they'd tried to scribble out with a marker pen & promptly wrote theirs over it. Cheeky tw:mad:ts

So glad we moved away from that dive!!!!!!!

It comes to something though when we have to lock bins up............

Mylo_The_Moggy

*HalfBaked* wrote: »

Unless your cats are fussy, in that case I can understand the need to do it every day (1 of my cats used to go in my handbag if I forgot to freshen the litter tray - this was enough to help me never forget again!)

That's just me me laugh like a loony!!! My cats are laid here looking at me daft! :D

Arachne_2

Mylo_The_Moggy wrote: »

That's just me me laugh like a loony!!! My cats are laid here looking at me daft! :D

They're probably thinking, "You laugh now, just wait..."

marlot

I don't really see the problem with people topping up bins which have already been put out for the bin men - its better than my neighbour who puts his excess out in plastic bags which then get ripped open by the foxes and strewn all over the neighbourhood. Indeed, I've made the offer.

I'd feel rather more aggrieved if they came into my garden to put their rubbish in!