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Could it be a 'helpful' neighbour?

Put a little sign on saying thank you for your help but could you leave the bins where they are please. I have more recycling to add.

Bit too damn helpful... I think

Are you able to move the boxes from your front door to the collection place? If so, then a note like 25Avalon suggests should be sufficient and not unnecessarily aggressive.

Well yes I do eventually move them to collection point. Such as early morning on the day. A friend has just suggested a bin store from b and q. Going to try it. Surely the bin fancier wouldn't go into a bin store, to retrieve them. Am trying my best to do the recycling bags myself. Independence is important to me...

Is there someone new locally? They probably are thinking they are doing their good deed for the day, sad to disillusion them. Maybe, you could keep them on inside your property until the morning of the collection, for a week or so and then go back to your routine.

Someone is being kind and helpful. Why not just leave the situation as it is and any rubbish you have put in the new rubbish bin ( in doors)

It sounds like who ever is moving it is probably thinking they are doing you a favour, I’d put a polite sign on them

Do you have a ‘helpful’ husband ?
If not I agree with Meryl (predictive text just turned you into ameryllis meryl) someone is believing they are helping and you might need their help one day why not leave it just inside your door until the morning you want it going out If it’s recycling it won’t be smelly or anything

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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?

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

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.