Flat tenants dumping rubbish issues

Legacy_user

I live in a block of flat where everyone that lives there puts their rubbish in a bin area, which is accessible by a gate with a keycode lock.

The past 10 days, there have been at least two tenants that are:
. Dumping their rubbish outside without doing the bag up.
. Opening the door and then throwing bag (again not tied) and throwing bag anywhere
. Place rubbish in already overflowing bins (untied again) - there are other bins which have room

This behaviour is going to encourage vermin and cause accidents to those tenants like me who actually dispose their rubbish properly - tied up and into an unoverflowing bin. As we may slip on contents of untied bins.

I have put the odd bag in when there was one outside when I put my own rubbish in.

Rang and e-ailed the HA who owns the bin area and they haven't come back to me. Last night, someone dumped a nappy box with rubbish in - that narrows it down to two flats that have nappy wearing aged children. Both tenants live next to the bin area!

How to get an answer from the HA and how to stop the lazy tenants? I can't speak to them as they are a nasty piece of work, gobby - as I have to endure them at work. One of them is banned for her foul behaviour.

Why do they not bother with disposing their rubbish properly and why start to be more lazy?

Rosemary7391

ScarletMarble wrote: »

Why do they not bother with disposing their rubbish properly and why start to be more lazy?

If you find out please let me know - we have the same problem except I'm not sure who is doing it. Environmental health might get involved but if they don't care, I don't know that anything is going to change that who pays for cleaning up their rubbish? If it isn't them it'll probably never sink in.

giddypenguin

I have this same problem with a block of flats opposite my house (except they all have individual wheely bins which the tenants inspect and will throw out any rubbish which isn't 'theirs')- when I complained to the HA they just sent the query on to the council as they are responsible for waste. A few weeks later a council inspector did come round for a look and said it was down to the HA to enforce tenancy rules and that the council had fulfilled their duty by providing bins.

Turned out that this had been a long term running saga between the HA/council and that they were at loggerheads. I still report it and now have the local councilor involved, but nothing has been done yet.

If you find a way to stop people living in their own filth (and without consideration for others) please let me know!!

Out,_Vile_Jelly

Some might respond to shame (eg a picture of the squalid scene put on a big poster in the communal area), some to threats (eg notes through doors saying rats have been spotted and Environmental Health have been called). Some people genuinely seem not to care about bin mess though and are happy to leave piles of filth for others to sort out.

borkid

I would go down the health and safety route ie rats as this seems to get attention.

lincroft1710

borkid wrote: »

I would go down the health and safety route ie rats as this seems to get attention.

If rats were genuinely seen, I'd bet any money that there'd be a picture in the local paper of the guilty tenant holding her little brat and moaning that the council/HA were letting rubbish pile up!

borkid

lincroft1710 wrote: »

If rats were genuinely seen, I'd bet any money that there'd be a picture in the local paper of the guilty tenant holding her little brat and moaning that the council/HA were letting rubbish pile up!

The OP didn't say they had seen rats but that they were concerned the rubbish would attract them. Considering how prevalent they are I would be surprised if they weren't around.

eilidhcatriona

I'd suggest contacting your council's Environmental Health department - they should help.


I had a similar issue a number of years ago, when the family of 10 that lived above me were dumping rubbish outside my door, including used nappies not in bags. Needless to say this brought rats, one of which got into my bathroom. The managing agents of my flat were very good, but they seemed to have issues getting anything done by the agents for the flat above. Then EH got involved, and they wouldn't let it lie - that's what got the situation resolved. The family (who I think were council tenants, although the flat was a private let) were moved to a more suitable place - the flat was a 3 bed, so it was probably a touch cramped for them. They also caused leaks which brought down my kitchen ceiling but that's another story.