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25 Avalons idea is perfect

There are things you didn't think to mention. Do you have your own front door/ back door where you leave these boxes?

If others in the building are using the same entrance and exit to the building, I can well understand why they move the boxes that to them are cluttering the place up. The boxes could too be in the way for them getting in and out.

Surely, even although you do not walk well, it makes more sense to take the recycling right out to the bin once, thus solving the problem. If you are on your own, or just you and your husband, I imagine you usually have the same amount as we do, which can quite conveniently be thrown out in one go.

My house is an end terrace, so the residents in the next two houses have to wheel their bins round my house for collection at the front. My deeds stipulate that I must allow 'wheelbarrow access' which, nowadays, is interpreted as wheelie bins. My bin is often taken out and brought back by a very helpful neighbour.

It's best to check what will actually help someone, rather than deciding for yourself what you think will.

That sounds as if someone is trying to be helpful. I often put my neighbours recycling out on the pavement on collection day. Is there a reason you leave it at the door so early. Why don't you just put it out in time for collection yourself . Problem solved !!!

You can lock a bin store.

My parents used to keep the wheely bins for recycling and general rubbish on the “landing” halfway up their front steps, as they didn’t want to wheel mucky bins through their terraced house. They were also on “assisted collect”. Mum died and Dad came to live with us 2 hours away, temporarily till we sorted things out. We got a letter threatening a fine from their local council about the wrong stuff being put in recycling, when no-one was living there to generate any rubbish. Somebody realising no-one was home had come into the garden and put rubbish in their wheely bin. Wouldn’t have minded, though a bit of a cheek, if they’d used the right bin. Council good as called me a liar when I rang up to tell them what was happening

My friend had it worse a neighbour told the bin men that the recycling bin was not needed any longer, so it was taken away. It took two months before it could be replaced. Same neighbour told the visiting ten year old grandson of friend that he must not play outside on a concrete communal path. Think I prefer the kind neighbour.

Germanshepherdsmum

Such a shame that someone who’s obviously trying to be helpful and remaining anonymous so not seeking thanks is called ‘a damn fool’. There aren’t enough of those kind people around. If OP was my neighbour I might be that damn fool.

Said what I was going to.

Are you my neighbour? Shall I stop trying to help?

Such a shame that someone who’s obviously trying to be helpful and remaining anonymous so not seeking thanks is called ‘a damn fool’. There aren’t enough of those kind people around. If OP was my neighbour I might be that damn fool.

I would just love it if some of my neighbours stopped to speak to me!

I would be very grateful if someone put my bins out for me! It seems to me someone is just being a good neighbour. As others have suggested why not keep any rubbish generated after the bins have been put out until the following week - do you generate that much recycling?

Why is it so necessary to put out every bit of rubbish/recycling you generate up to the last second before the binmen arrive?

Surely you do not suddenly generate vast quantities of waste that evening. Why not be grateful for the help you get and just put any other rubbish in the bin when it returns to you empty after collection.

Our bin collection is very early so all bins go out overnight, they have to be wheeled to the entry to our access road, about 100 feet away, so once I have put them there, round 7.00pm the previous evening, any rubbish generated is just kept until the bin comes back.

i mean many people round here put out bins for neighbours.

DiscoDancer, are you sure about that. i can't see why you would be forbidden from putting out other people's bins, as long as they don't object, of course. many do so round here.
there may be local rules about not putting bins out too early, or leaving them around on the pavement after collection, as that is an obstruction.
there have been problems in some places where lazy people just leave them out all the time, blocking the pavement.
also it is illegal to move waste without a licence.
but that does not apply to putting domestic bins out for collection.
technically one is not meant to put eg household waste in a street-side litter bin. those bins are meant for litter which is created while out and about, eg wrappers from sweets, tissues.
people are employed to go through the contents of litter bins to find evidence to trace and fine offenders, eg discarded envelopes.

could you ask the council to collect your bins from outside your front door.
they do this for people with mobility problems.
we put ours out the night before, everyone does so, as they collect very early.
do you have wheelie bins. we do. one for rubbish and one for re-cycling. i think they should be lockable, as people going by throw thins in, often in wrong bins. ours are kept near pavement edge all the time, just dragged a few feet out.

I'm on assisted lift with my bins, which means the council collect them from my door. When I had a new neighbour they started putting it out for me which really confused the bin men.

When I found out who it was, I politely thanked them for their help, but explained that it wasn't necessary as I was on assisted lift, but I did appreciate their kind thoughts.

I think someone is trying to be helpful, but doesn't realise that they are causing a problem. Sometimes you just have to explain why its causing an issue, but explain it with a smile.

Ring your local council and tell them you need a bin with a lid. You no doubt pay your rates so they should provide something for you. I agree, someone is trying to be ‘helpful’ which is lovely of them but not when it is not welcome.

Ours all have bin lids can’t imagine any bins without lids Surely birds, gulls, foxes, cats would just pull everything out ??

It sounds as if you have open bins? Our are all closed with a lid, so nothing gets soggy. Just keep your stuff dry indoors until you are ready to put it out.

Thanks for all your helpful comments. It's the brown food waste bin I worry about most... foxes etc. Buying a bin store for back garden, so blue green and black paper bins not in hallway at night. Having no bin store means the paper and plastics blue bin might get waterlogged with rain. That's why I needed to keep them in hallway. So I wasnt carrying wet bins through my home. No I dont have a husband, and I hope the bin fancier is not looking for a wife...lol

I don’t walk very well

Perhaps they see that, and think they are helping.

Also, if it’s recycling, which I assume is paper, cardboard, clean plastics etc, what do foxes and other animals find to feast on?

I agree with MerylStreep, and suggest you just put any extra in next weeks bin. Far easier than making a fuss.

My neighbour puts my bin out before I have finished sorting the recycling or emptying the household bins last thing at night which means I have to carry it to the end of the drive.
I don't say anything because she thinks she is saving me a chore.

This probably wouldn’t bother you, it’s pretty trivial in the bigger scheme of things, but apparently, it’s against the law to move rubbish from private property.

We found this out when we started having students about 15 years ago. Some weeks, I was itching to put their bins out the night before, in case they forgot, but was told I couldn’t. This was in the beginning though. They seem to have got better over time. More diligent landlords. Good relations between the residents and the university.

Of course, may be different now.