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Recycling items dumped in my rubbish bin pe**** me off

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25Avalon Sun 15-Feb-26 12:20:17

My recycling and rubbish bins were emptied on Friday. Today I went to bring them in. Some low life had emptied a load of stuff into the bottom of my bin, coke cans, glass bottles, crisps packets, some metal canister covered in mud and an empty plastic pill holder. The bin is tall so I had to empty it in the road and pick it all up - a disgusting job. Whoever it was just stopped and cleared out their car. Why couldn’t they have taken it home, put it in a bag in the bin, or put it in the correct recycle bin? The latter would still have annoyed me but at least I wouldn’t have had to touch it. What is the matter with some people?

MaggsMcG Mon 16-Feb-26 16:54:49

Where I live everyone leaves their bins on the path permanently you can't even past some of them. No chance for a pram or mobility scooter. Passing people stick all sorts in their bins. Mine are a little way off the pavement and I can see them from my kitchen window

Dodo43 Mon 16-Feb-26 19:05:47

Or , as I find, every time I trim the hedge....dog poo bags pushed into the branches - not even in a bin. It disgusts me. And more than that, some people seem to think it's ok to throw empty cans and beer bottles and crisps packets and takeaway cartons into the garden too. Every gardening session begins with a clean up. What's wrong with people?

Flippin2 Mon 16-Feb-26 22:05:25

Avalon,to throw the tied up bags of dog poo in a skip isn't on either,we hired a skip and the same night before we had chance to put anything in a lady walking her dog threw a bag of poo in,caught her clear as day on the ring doorbell,skip was on our driveway.

Gwyllt Mon 16-Feb-26 22:06:14

At least folk are putting their rubbish in your bin
We have a wide splay on quite a busy road. I sware people pull in and chuck rubbish out of their car. It made me think if I pit a bin up there if it might be used. It would be better than all the rubbish that gets blown down our drive

WithNobsOnIt Mon 16-Feb-26 23:05:23

May have posted on this before. Had this problem myself. Local Council classed this as fly tipping.

My bin was being used to dump mounds of dirty stinking shitty babys nappies. And takeaway food waste and cartons from a local kebab takeaway

Have now got my bin in a neighbours out house house under lock and key.

Before that as temporary measure.l used chains and a padlock to lock my bin up.. Worked a treat.

Yes, bin dumper people are low life scum .
They couldn't care less

Winniewit Tue 17-Feb-26 09:15:21

25Avalon

My recycling and rubbish bins were emptied on Friday. Today I went to bring them in. Some low life had emptied a load of stuff into the bottom of my bin, coke cans, glass bottles, crisps packets, some metal canister covered in mud and an empty plastic pill holder. The bin is tall so I had to empty it in the road and pick it all up - a disgusting job. Whoever it was just stopped and cleared out their car. Why couldn’t they have taken it home, put it in a bag in the bin, or put it in the correct recycle bin? The latter would still have annoyed me but at least I wouldn’t have had to touch it. What is the matter with some people?

Nothing with a name or address on amongst all the rubbish. ?

25Avalon Tue 17-Feb-26 13:53:32

Nothing to identify. That reminds me many years ago a work colleague had bags of rubbish dumped at the bottom of his drive in a rural area., and managed to get the car registration number. As he was a member of the Masons he had a chum in the police who looked it up and gave home the name and address. He then bagged it all up and drove with it to the perpetrator’s house where he emptied all the bags out on the driveway. When the householder came out he just told him he was returning his property as he didn’t want it.

Dreadwitch Wed 18-Feb-26 16:34:28

At least they're using a bin. Round here they pick it uia bag then throw it in a tree.