Is it an offence (to put rubbish in someone elses bin?)

alumende27

To the original question, get to know your neighbours well enough that you're all happy for someone to put stuff in someone else's bin if yours is full without worrying about the ensuing drama.

Since the council here started charging for garden waste, I've offered to let my neighbours put stuff in my brown bins if they still have space in them the day before collection rather than all of us forking out for a brown bin collection.

Why be sneaky about it and wonder about the legalities. Get to know your neighbours a bit better!

lstar337

I had awful neighbours who used to put their rubbish in our and our other neighbours bins because they couldn't give a hoot, and this wasn't when they were on the curb either, it was while in their community stored area. Sometimes our bin would be almost full the day after it had been collected!

We (and our other neighbours) used to recycle like crazy to make sure we had enough space in our bins for our non-recyclable waste, but they didn't recycle a thing. They also used to throw filled nappies outside their front door (even in the sun) into our communal path, just because they couldn't be bothered to walk a few extra metres to the bin.

In the end we got sick of it and our letting agent advised us to move our bin to our rear garden. We did and so did our other neighbours followed suit.

Soon after I saw one of them take a bag of rubbish across the road and stuff it into a 'Clothes for Africa' charity bin!! Despicable human beings that think of nobody but themselves.

After many complaints they were eventually 'encouraged' to move on via a sizable rent increase.

If you need to put some rubbish in a bin that is not yours, please ask.

Mr.Generous

I think there is a big difference between a 'one off ' nip out on bin day after neighbour has gone to work and drop a clean bin bag of rubbish into a bin yet to be emptied with space for your stuff because you have for once filled your own bin, and the alternative lazy slob stuff we are hearing about above.

Bins frustrate me when left out for days or simply kept at the front of the house through laziness (not some good reason before you start!!)

If keeping the area tidy meant someone occasionally popped a bag in my bin I wouldn't care. Trouble with stuff like this is if it becomes a regular thing it starts to become an entitlement. "Can you put your bin out a bit earlier as I need to put my bags in it before I go to work" sort of thing.

I could give a great example but really I should start a thread as its a slightly different kind of neighbour favour that became an entitlement!

Shrimply

glasgowdan wrote: »

I've been a binman. Bins without "closed" lids often get "damaged" in the truck, "lids" get ripped off by the "machine", hence "funny". And age "definitely" is "relevant". Never once did anyone under 50 "moan" about their "bin" placement!

If under 30 is considered old then you got me. If I have to cross the road, walk along the street, and then navigate back between cars and avoiding traffic with my bin then yes I moan about it. Especially if said bin was put out by neighbours (not because they were being neighbourly but because it had none of my rubbish in it but was full of theirs) and then not brought back in even though they'd managed to retrieve their own :mad:

Sicard

Alter_ego wrote: »

Why???????

Because if the lid couldn't close and foxes or whatever got to it and scattered rubbish all over it would be a pain in the butt. Can you not see this?

Zola.

Its pretty rude... why not just drive the excess down to the local dump and get rid.

Wassa123

Just ask them if they mind.

I wouldn't mind if it were outside the house and it all got taken away anyway.

Don't complain if they then decide to go through "their own rubbish" and find stuff out about you.

glasgowdan

Mr.Generous wrote: »

I could give a great example but really I should start a thread as its a slightly different kind of neighbour favour that became an entitlement!

Go on...!

JohnB47

I can't really understand how people can fill up their bins to bursting, if their bins are those big grey ones like we have.

Ours is emptied every fortnight and we regularly have just one kitchen pedal bin bag in there - full of light food container wrappers, tissues etc. Everything else is recycled. I'm certain that we could go to monthly collections, or even less often and it wouldn't matter a jot.

What on earth are people throwing away?

System

I don't mind if my neighbours ask as i have 2 full size black bins but at our previous house when we had one bin i woke up to find it overflowing , A little searching found an address 3 streets away so they got it back on their door step .