Neighbors stealing bins

Gloomendoom

krlyr wrote: »

Phone your council and see if they've reported any extra bins. Had the same thing happen myself and didn't realise that sometimes the bins get stuck in the lorry and taken back to the depot, they apparently check for extras and will deliver you a new one if they found extras. And definitely add your number, sharpish!

When I was a bin man with the old bins, it wasn't unknown for a bin to get badly damaged while it was being emptied and then thrown in with the rubbish to get rid of the evidence. I did it myself on my first day.

System

tensandunits wrote: »

I would get in touch with your council, and ask about better bin security.

How on earth can you protect your bin from being stolen? Its not that you can tie it to a lamp post or anything.

firefox1956

All the wheelie bins have a unique serial number printed on them ??
Small white numbers.
At least all the bins in our area have.
The council have a record of the bin delivered to your address.
I presume it will be this number that the bin wagon will read when we have to pay to have them emptied by weight ??
Now I might be wrong of course.

pimento

Mojisola wrote: »

If you buy a bin off the internet, make sure it's the same design as your council uses.

Might it not be better if it looked completely different to all the others?

Mojisola

pimento wrote: »

Might it not be better if it looked completely different to all the others?

Not if it doesn't work with the refuse lorry equipment.

silvermum

https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=bin+numbers

ALL the bins in our part of the road disappeared one quiet morning. Were found two months later at the back of the house which was being renovated. The builders had stolen them all to put their rubble in!

silverwhistle

silvermum wrote: »

ALL the bins in our part of the road disappeared one quiet morning.

Too many retired people or workers from home (me) around here..

In the middle of the village I've noticed someone with bins in their forecourt covered in flowery wallpower all the way round. A splash of colour and too much faff for someone to pinch.

I'd either go and do (or get someone like me) a check on duplicate bins, or make a big fuss with the council. When I moved in to my current place there wasn't a bin and one was provided with no fuss.

gettingtheresometime

Apparently the bin wheels are often used for go carts

tensandunits_2

Judi wrote: »

How on earth can you protect your bin from being stolen? Its not that you can tie it to a lamp post or anything.

I suppose not, but ours never get stolen now, as they are kept in the bin shed and the bin men go in there to get them.

hollydays

PeacefulWaters wrote: »

I think the official solution is to steal somebody elses,

Perhaps that's the same reason the op got there's taken?

Sort of wheely bin musical chairs? Only with adults.