Disposing your rubbish in other people's bins

Andy From Sligo · 04-09-2018 1:57pm #1

Just listening this morning on a radio station where the radio presenter was discussing about people disposing their rubbish in other peoples bins.

issues raised:

people clearing up after their dog on the pavement with a poo bag but rather than bringing it home, disposing it in someones wheelie bins on the way home...

People bringing their rubbish from home and disposing it in a bin at say at the retail park bins....

and of course the classic - when no-ones looking and after the neighbour has put out their wheelie bin for collection , nipping over and putting their rubbish in their neighbours bin ....

Whats your thought on all this? - and have you ever caught someone using your bin?

Avatar MIA · 04-09-2018 1:59pm

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

Just listening this morning on a radio station where the radio presenter was discussing about people disposing their rubbish in other peoples bins.

issues raised:

people clearing up after their dog on the pavement with a poo bag but rather than bringing it home, disposing it in someones wheelie bins on the way home...

People bringing their rubbish from home and disposing it in a bin at say at the retail park bins....

and of course the classic - when no-ones looking and after the neighbour has put out their wheelie bin for collection , nipping over and putting their rubbish in their neighbours bin ....

Whats your thought on all this? - and have you ever caught someone using your bin?

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TheIrishGrover · 04-09-2018 2:08pm

People cleaning up after their dog and putting it into someone's bin? Well, if the bin hadn't been emptied yet then I would be pretty OK with that. If the bin had been emptied then hell no.

As for the other two? Again, hell no.

04-09-2018 2:09pm

Couldn't really care less. I've seen people pick crap up from the street and throw it in my bin, am I gonna give out to them? I've thrown an odd thing in a neighbour's bin on collection day when mine was full and seen others do it. If someone is piggy-backing on my bin then I'd be annoyed but if there's space in mine and theirs is full they can work away.

Avatar MIA · 04-09-2018 2:11pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Couldn't really care less. I've seen people pick crap up from the street and throw it in my bin, am I gonna give out to them? I've thrown an odd thing in a neighbour's bin on collection day when mine was full and seen others do it. If someone is piggy-backing on my bin then I'd be annoyed but if there's space in mine and theirs is full they can work away.

I take it you don't 'pay by weight'.

Pyr0 · 04-09-2018 2:21pm

The only time I'd put rubbish in someones bin would be if I was walking down the street with rubbish in my hand and no bin in sight, i'd pop it into someones bin if it was out on the street and already full, otherwise I'd hold on to it.

Rubbish in this instance being a crisp wrapper or something, not an actual bag of rubbish.

04-09-2018 2:26pm

Avatar MIA wrote: »

I take it you don't 'pay by weight'.

Correct. Even at that when it was proposed here it was a stupidly high fixed charge and the extra for weight was low enough that a handful of crap wouldn't be an issue.

freshpopcorn · 04-09-2018 2:41pm

It's actually one of those things I could never imagine doing. I'd as soon put my rubbish through somebodies letterbox.

GreeBo · 04-09-2018 2:44pm

I had a neighbour do it to my bin, I only noticed it as they put their crap in after the collection.

I went through their three bags and found a delivery receipt and took great pleasure in returning their bags to their doorsteps.

The bags were a little ripped so some "items" may have spilled all over their door.

lertsnim · 04-09-2018 3:01pm

Only a scumbag would do it. It has happened to me twice.

Andy From Sligo · 04-09-2018 3:15pm

my dad caught red handed his next door neighbour doing it (only time he saw this neighbour, when he put something in his bin) , only some papers and the odd carrier bag full of rubbish - thing is my dad said if the neighbour only had a little bit of politeness to ask when his bin was full and if he was a good neighbour he most probably wouldnt have had a problem - but when caught my dad put him straight and warned him if he saw him doing it again there will be trouble (and my dad was very fit and intimidating and been in the marines LOL) ...and then it stopped after that (neighbour most probably put it in some other neighbours bin, if someone is in that mindset they are going to carry on doing it anyway)

razorblunt · 04-09-2018 3:24pm

We don't pay per weight, only time I've stopped it is a dog walker through a bag into my recycling bin. I'd be ok with it being the landfill bin, even if it had just been emptied as I have a dog myself, but this was an empty recycling bin.

Thankfully I caught him and made him reach in and get it out.

The only time before that was years ago moving house. My Dad rented a skip and had started to put some stuff in, come out to find half a kitchen in there just dumped. We knew exactly where it was coming from so we took it out and threw it over the wall. I'd say the flower bed wasn't too pretty after that.

arctictree · 04-09-2018 3:40pm

There is a lovely picnic area maintained by residents at the entrance to our village. Saw a woman parked beside the bin yesterday trying to squeeze in a bag of domestic rubbish. The feckin neck of some people.

seamus · 04-09-2018 4:03pm

If someone had just picked up their dog crap and my bin happened to be on the street, I wouldn't mind them sticking it in. Better in the bin than on the street. I'd do the same if I was a good bit from home and no sign of a bin.

If we say the typical pay by weight cost is 25c/kg and a medium sized sh1t weighs about 200g, then the cost of that dog **** to me is 5c.

Not exactly something I'm going to cry about unless every dog walker in the area is using my bin every day.

People putting their rubbish in the car and travelling to places to dispose of it is scummy though. And a bit weird. When you factor in the cost of your time in dealing with it, and the petrol to carry it, do you even save any money?

Sticking your rubbish in your neighbours' bins, extreme scumminess.

Andy From Sligo · 04-09-2018 4:53pm

radio presenter said she knew a person with a 60grand BMW that used to put her rubbish in other peoples bins!

Avatar MIA · 04-09-2018 4:56pm

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

radio presenter said she knew a person with a 60grand BMW that used to put her rubbish in other peoples bins!

That's how she can afford a 60 grand BMW ... Badum Tish!

m5ex9oqjawdg2i · 04-09-2018 7:35pm

I would rather a little bit of shít in my bin than on the footpath. However, I think the council should be doing a lot more to deal with people and their animals shítting on the streets.

Using somebodies bin for your waste is a bit of an arseholey thing to do. I'm talking about bags of waste, not a twix wrapper or whatever. People may be paying by weight and it's certainly not cheap.

Sal Butamol · 04-09-2018 8:08pm

18YearOldGirls BumHoles wrote: »

Get a gravity lock - or put a wasps nest into it with aggravated wasps, when your vermin neighbour opens it up, he / she will be on their way to hospital in an ambulance.

That's quite a username lol

my3cents · 04-09-2018 8:18pm

Reminds me of my neighbor who went on holiday leaving an empty bin and came back to a full bin. He asked around including his brother in law who lived near by and everyone including bil denied knowing anything about it. So neighbor got the local council litter warden out who went through the rubbish and discovered mail. Guess whose it was, yep the bil :rolleyes: Never did get the end of the story must ask but last I heard it was going to court :pac:

Your Face · 04-09-2018 8:18pm

Everything is so common these days.
Not an ironed shirt to be seen.

Stephen15 · 04-09-2018 8:20pm

I do put sometimes put single pieces of litter and and dog sh1te in other people's bins. I don't see the harm in it and would only do it if the bins were out for collection the next morning.

My local council took away a lot of the public bins a few years and only replaced some with those bigbelly bins but not every one was replaced there's one stretch of road which is over a kilometre long which doesn't have a single public bin. As the the one which is on this road was removed.

my3cents · 04-09-2018 8:33pm

Stephen15 wrote: »

I do put sometimes put single pieces of litter and and dog sh1te in other people's bins. I don't see the harm in it and would only do it if the bins were out for collection the next morning.

My local council took away a lot of the public bins a few years and only replaced some with those bigbelly bins but not every one was replaced there's one stretch of road which is over a kilometre long which doesn't have a single public bin. As the the one which is on this road was removed.

The problem is people put their household rubbish in council bins.

I've watched them around town doing it. Some old dear living in town will take a carrier bag full of rubbish with them every time they go shopping and dump it in the first empty bin they see. I've even watched as someone took crushed food tins out of a bag and place them one at a time into a small council bin attached to a lamp post.

Edit> Where my parents live they overlook a council car park with a bin in the corner, every morning the guy in the house next to them takes his dog out and takes a bag of rubbish from his house and dumps it in the council bin. I say they should report him but as neighbors they won't do that.

Stephen15 · 04-09-2018 8:35pm

my3cents wrote: »

The problem is people put their household rubbish in council bins.

I've watched them around town doing it. Some old dear living in town will take a carrier bag full of rubbish with them every time they go shopping and dump it in the first empty bin they see. I've even watched as someone took crushed food tins out of a bag and place them one at a time into a small council bin attached to a lamp post.

It's a shame these people take away their convience.

Edgware · 04-09-2018 8:36pm

razorblunt wrote: »

We don't pay per weight, only time I've stopped it is a dog walker through a bag into my recycling bin. I'd be ok with it being the landfill bin, even if it had just been emptied as I have a dog myself, but this was an empty recycling bin.

Thankfully I caught him and made him reach in and get it out.

The only time before that was years ago moving house. My Dad rented a skip and had started to put some stuff in, come out to find half a kitchen in there just dumped. We knew exactly where it was coming from so we took it out and threw it over the wall. I'd say the flower bed wasn't too pretty after that.

Rule 1 of Suburbia.

When a neighbour hires a skip thats the time to get rid of old mattresses etc when they have gone to the shops. Its better under cover of darkness and then keep peeping so you can see their reaction.

my3cents · 04-09-2018 8:38pm

Edgware wrote: »

Rule 1 of Suburbia.

When a neighbour hires a skip thats the time to get rid of old mattresses etc when they have gone to the shops. Its better under cover of darkness and then keep peeping so you can see their reaction.

No surprised really, took two old mattresses to the tip recently and had to pay €10 to get rid of each one :mad: Not that I'd fill anyone elses skip with rubbish.

Fann Linn · 04-09-2018 8:38pm

Malachi Uninterested Laser wrote: »

I would rather a little bit of shít in my bin than on the footpath. However, I think the council should be doing a lot more to deal with people and their animals shítting on the streets.

Using somebodies bin for your waste is a bit of an arseholey thing to do. I'm talking about bags of waste, not a twix wrapper or whatever. People may be paying by weight and it's certainly not cheap.

Yes. I believe Local Authorities should employ more public servants to follow inconsiderate dog owners around our cities, towns and villages.

OldMrBrennan83 · 04-09-2018 8:39pm

Get gravity locks. Next door started putting stuff in ours when the pay by weight was introduced. Had a great laugh watching the confusion the first week we had them on.

odyssey06 · 04-09-2018 8:40pm

This justifies Immediate Summary Execution. Though I'm not sure if a corpse is acceptable in brown bins these days, they've gotten so fussy.

Edgware · 04-09-2018 8:42pm

my3cents wrote: »

No surprised really, took two old mattresses to the tip recently and had to pay €10 to get rid of each one :mad: Not that I'd fill anyone elses skip with rubbish.

There are other options. I had a fairly good mattress and I put it on Done Deal for 50 euro. Not one enquiry. After a week I said to hell with it and put it up for free. I had about eight calls within an hour and a Chinese couple came and took it.

cstaff · 05-09-2018 9:45am

I actually had the opposite happen a few years ago - i was getting work done on my house and had hired a skip. After spending a day clearing out the house and garden I was on my way to work the following day and notice that various things had been taken off of my skip most notably an outside furniture set which was fit for nowhere else but the skip.

Regarding bins there is a man on my road who I regularly see walking up and down with small a rubbish bag in his hand and emptying at the bins over by the shop. I don't have a problem with this as such as bins are expensive and he is doing nobody any harm.

The other end of this is one morning I was on my way to work and my bin had been out since the night before and I went to add another bag to it and when I opened the bin there were about a dozen beer bottles / cans on top - now that pissed me off as there is quite some weight in that.

SEPT 23 1989 · 05-09-2018 10:07am

cstaff wrote: »

I actually had the opposite happen a few years ago - i was getting work done on my house and had hired a skip. After spending a day clearing out the house and garden I was on my way to work the following day and notice that various things had been taken off of my skip most notably an outside furniture set which was fit for nowhere else but the skip.

I was doing a clear out of the last house and i should have just left everything out in the garden rather than wasting money on a skip

word must have gone around the local site and as soon as darkness fell van after van arrived

skip left nearly empty

GreeBo · 05-09-2018 12:39pm

cstaff wrote: »

Regarding bins there is a man on my road who I regularly see walking up and down with small a rubbish bag in his hand and emptying at the bins over by the shop. I don't have a problem with this as such as bins are expensive and he is doing nobody any harm.

Huh?

How is he "doing nobody any harm"? What about the person who is paying for the bins he is using?

cstaff · 05-09-2018 1:30pm

GreeBo wrote: »

Huh?

How is he "doing nobody any harm"? What about the person who is paying for the bins he is using?

He is using the bins outside the shop so it is not costing any individual any money - maybe Dublin City Council but they would be doing that anyway.

Avatar MIA · 05-09-2018 1:53pm

cstaff wrote: »

He is using the bins outside the shop so it is not costing any individual any money - maybe Dublin City Council but they would be doing that anyway.

Is there an infinite capacity in the bin? No, so when Skanger Sam dumps his domestic waste into the public bin it's going to leave no room for the intended rubbish, with the predictable consequences.

sbsquarepants · 05-09-2018 2:00pm

A few years back my cousin copped that someone was putting rubbish in his bin, went through the bag and found a bill with an address - brought it back over to the neighbours house and told him to keep away. The neighbour stared him in the eye and said "I'll put my rubbish wherever the fúck I want to put it- OK"

Sparked off a feud of sorts that is still going on today.

Some people are just nuts!

seamus · 05-09-2018 2:01pm

cstaff wrote: »

He is using the bins outside the shop so it is not costing any individual any money - maybe Dublin City Council but they would be doing that anyway.

And who pays for Dublin City Council's bins?

lassykk · 05-09-2018 2:12pm

Before the pay by weight we had a neighbour put their rubbish in our bin every week. I didn't mind in the slightest as we never filled the bin and was happy to let it happen. We never mentioned it.

Once pay by weight came in I got a nasty surprise the first time the bill came in for being overweight. Next time we put out the bin I took the additional bags back out (different colour so easy to distinguish) and left them away from the bin but on the side of the road.

The additional bags were taken back by the neighbour pretty much straight away and they haven't done it since.

Wouldn't have fancied a confrontation over it and would have just got a gravity lock had they not taken them back.

GreeBo · 05-09-2018 2:25pm

cstaff wrote: »

He is using the bins outside the shop so it is not costing any individual any money - maybe Dublin City Council but they would be doing that anyway.

They could be the shop bins, but even if they are public bins, they are not for household waste.

Filling them as he does means the need to be emptied more frequently, meaning more people meaning those of us who pay tax are paying for this man to dispose of his rubbish.

Sure why do any of us have bins if using public bins is grand?

Lyle Lanley · 05-09-2018 2:43pm

Wouldn't be an issue if waste disposal was public. Large bins at the end of the street. Like in most countries.

Avatar MIA · 05-09-2018 2:48pm

Lyle Lanley wrote: »

Wouldn't be an issue if waste disposal was public. Large bins at the end of the street. Like in most countries.

Really? haven't heard of that. Even more surprised considering how anti environmental it would be.

GreeBo · 05-09-2018 2:51pm

Lyle Lanley wrote: »

Wouldn't be an issue if waste disposal was public. Large bins at the end of the street. Like in most countries.

such as?

Lyle Lanley · 05-09-2018 4:07pm

GreeBo wrote: »

such as?

Only including countries I've lived in Spain, Cayman Islands and Argentina all off the top of my head. Never paid (directly) towards waste disposal.

MrKingsley · 05-09-2018 4:11pm

I regularly find bags of dog crap in my bin and to be honest I really couldn’t care less.

The bin stays outside and I’d much rather it there than on the path where I might step on it.

KevinCavan · 05-09-2018 4:11pm

I live in an apartment block and somebody keeps putting rubbish in my wheelie bin, which I brought from my last house. The wheelie bin is in a communal area. I think it’s some fcuk who never bothered buying their own wheelie bin and has the attitude that anybody’s wheelie bin will do. It gets on my tits in a territorial kind of way.

seamus · 05-09-2018 4:16pm

Lyle Lanley wrote: »

Only including countries I've lived in Spain, Cayman Islands and Argentina all off the top of my head. Never paid (directly) towards waste disposal.

It's unsustainable in real terms. Countries who operate this "dump everything and the state collects it" system are drowning under the burden of trying to dispose of this waste.

This the reason most European countries are moving towards a split-bin recycling system if they don't already have one.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 05-09-2018 4:25pm

GreeBo wrote: »

They could be the shop bins, but even if they are public bins, they are not for household waste.

Filling them as he does means the need to be emptied more frequently, meaning more people meaning those of us who pay tax are paying for this man to dispose of his rubbish.

Sure why do any of us have bins if using public bins is grand?

Agreed.

A litter warden friend of mine told me that putting household waste in public litter bins is an offence under littering laws.

Borderfox · 05-09-2018 4:30pm

Caught one doing it in the apartment block where I live and told them they would end up in the bin, also rang the Gardaí as they stank of alcohol too.

GreeBo · 05-09-2018 5:09pm

Lyle Lanley wrote: »

Only including countries I've lived in Spain, Cayman Islands and Argentina all off the top of my head. Never paid (directly) towards waste disposal.

A somewhat personal definition of "most" then...

Postgrad10 · 05-09-2018 5:26pm

We had a skip to clear out our attic to get some renovation work done. A very small bag blew out of it during a windy night. Our neighbour called us over and were nice about it and said we'd collect it straight away. Only their adult daughter decided to go crazy and accused of dumping rubbish at their house when they weren't there. Needless to say, we haven't bothered with her since.

Disposing your rubbish in other people's bins

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