When Your Neighbours Use Your Bins without Asking

Starlight8 on 15/11/2017 - 13:11
Last edited 16/11/2017 - 13:06 by 1 other user

Hey Guys,

I was wondering if anyone here has experienced their neighbours using their bins without asking and dumping things into the wrong bins.

I am getting fed up with our neighbours, I'm not sure which neighbour it is - but I'm planning to ask around or even get my Xiaomi camera to film this (if I can actually get it to work -_-")!!

(rant) - I am totally fine if they have the courtesy to ask me but they obviously don't! To make matters worst they seem to be dumping wooden planks with screws into my recycling bin - its like the got lazy etc (they even wheeled our green/tree bin out a few weeks ago and filled it to the rim). Also last night my husband went to check our bins and took all the things that weren't in the correct bin out and chucked it next to the bin. Today as we woke up and went out to check our bins - everything was gone! (end rant)

Do you guys have any strategies to deter your rude neighbours from doing this?

Thanks for reading :)

Home & Garden

Comments

    • Starlight8 on 18/11/2017 - 22:25
      +2

      I have no quarms with sharing, but i have a problem when people walk into my carport to use my bins or illegally dump things in the wrong bin :( all they need to do is to ask - but yeh faith in society at and all time low -_-

      binperks!

  • Darkpulsar on 18/11/2017 - 00:50

    Take inspiration from Curb Your Enthusiasm

  • Dr Prepper on 18/11/2017 - 08:17
    +2

    Our neighbour who is a tiler used to chuck building waste in our yellow bin. Otherwise a nice neighbour. We just always made sure to fill it to the brim sometimes even slightly over fill the bin so it is obvious and he ended up using the other neibours.

    • [Deactivated] on 18/11/2017 - 08:49
      +1

      Probably the asbestos.

      • Starlight8 on 18/11/2017 - 22:26

        omg that would be so scary if there was asbestos in the bin!!

    • Starlight8 on 18/11/2017 - 22:28

      Oh wow - the effort of filling the bins…

      We are only a family of two and we dont accrue a lot of rubbish to fill any of our bins to the brim as of yet lol

  • cheepo on 18/11/2017 - 11:54

    Not sure if this has been suggested already but if it bothers you enough, have you considered putting your bins out after they do or early in the morning before it's collected to stop them?

    Sure, you could speak to them but dishonest people don't always cave in unless they are caught in the act so perhaps setting up a camera as you've suggested may be a good option if you intend to approach them. I don't see much point in threatening them or playing practical jokes. Some people can easily get malevolent over little things and it always helps to have neighbours on your side (no pun intended).

    • Starlight8 on 18/11/2017 - 22:32

      Yeh I would do that but we had an incident where someone used our green bin when we went out (FOR 3 HOURS ONLY!!!) - when we got back the bin was filled to the brim and it was taken out of our carport (which has a fence but also a gap for a car to come in so its theres no lock - thats seriously trespassing!!!)

      Yeh I've been looking into cameras - just dont know which one is the best for my needs as of yet.

      Yeh I totally get that you should have your neighbours on your side, but it doesnt help when they started this bin war lolol

  • heidisapirate on 18/11/2017 - 21:45

    I'd say see if you can find out who is doing it and ask them to stop. If they don't, throw all the rubbish they've put in your bins onto their yard.

  • Lucky13 on 19/11/2017 - 03:55

    You could drill a hole through the edge of the lid and through the top of the bin and hook a padlock through it. Is that too extreme??

    EDIT: Just reading other peoples posts, maybe just stick a note to the top of the bin saying "Property of…" etc. Having a lock on it would be pretty annoying, but it would keep them out. Maybe a back up option if it doesn't stop.

  • alxr0101 on 19/11/2017 - 07:22
    +2

    Sign on bin; "directed by Council - Surveillance Camera in use"

    • Starlight8 on 20/11/2017 - 09:13

      yup i was thinking about that. Pity my xiaomi doesnt work :(

  • DrSyd on 19/11/2017 - 07:38

    i dont care if my neighbours use my bin if they are already out for collection. In my area the recycling and general waste end up in the same spot anyway for sorting.

    • OzzyOzbourne on 19/11/2017 - 11:53
      +1

      How did you find out about that? Would love to know how my council sorts waste.

      • DrSyd on 19/11/2017 - 17:23

        I previously worked for the fire brigade, we had an incident at the waste management facility and was given a tour and shown how they process the waste. All local waste (at this particular place) was brought to this sorting facility and processed the same way, general waste that was not source separated for recycling was processed the same as recyclables.

  • [Deactivated] on 19/11/2017 - 22:11

    This shit happens all the time.

    Don't worry the shit about it.

    I have this shitty neighbour who in the middle of the night does this weird ritual where he is like "aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh, B&STARD". Where all the neighbours can hear him which can last anywhere from 5 to 10 minutes. I think he is screaming to his son which is probably not of natural birth. The last scream he had was the was the most funniest of them all, he was "aaaahhhhhhhh B&stard, no rice, no rice". The son comes over and tries to talk with some of my household members, trying to find comfort, but I didn't like how he talked trash about how we were managing our private property. Fix your own family up before you come complaining about why I don't want to cut my grass.

    I like to keep my the grass long, and if you were at my house, you could see by looking outside on the nature strip of their neighbours that someone went overkill with the lawnmower and it is now a barren wasteland. So, no way am I going to cut the grass because we are not getting a lot of rain lately. I stopped growing vegetables in my garden this year because the rain has been so poor. Also, I only clean the leaves monthly because the council trees are too freaking big (Literally over 3 stories high). There is no point raking leaves for them to appear in the next few days… RIGHT? Lmao….

    The neighbour on the other side starts raking and complaining about raking at 5AM in the morning. I mean come on, don't bother with it; if anything get the council to prune back the large trees, they are extraordinary large, enough to cover my neighbour's whole house if it came down in a storm. Get them to fix the crow, raven, and cockatoo problem and you'll have less leaves!

    Returning the unnatural son from next door, he goes and spins some fake news story about there being rats in the area because my grass too long, bull. Your's is too short, you didn't maintain the nature strip and now it is barren. Don't make me follow your foolishness. I noticed they are now trying to pay a landscaper to fix it, but lol… Why make a problem to fix it later and cost myself $$$?

    The son and his father also always poking around the bins and banging randomly on the bins to make noise. They are always nitpicking and moving around rubbish. Why bother? They do realise you cannot recycle anything except bottles and paper in the council bins right??? (I think they are stupid because I went over and took a look at what they did and they put other random LDPE/HDPE products into the yellow bin. There seems to be someone dismantling electronic equipment like laser printers and throwing away the plastic shell into the rubbish bin. THIS NEEDS TO STAY IN THE RUBBISH BIN because just because it states something is recycleable, doesn't mean the council bin is the place for it.) I wish that guy next door would grow up.

    Anyway, so enough of that rant which was semi-relevant;
    I looked at my bins last week and noticed that the recycling bin was unusually full. So I took it out thinking it was the yellow bin day, but everyone else was taking out their green bins. So someone has filled half my bin with newspapers, most likely from the neighbouring apartment building.

    The thing is my area is gated so they must have opened the gate during night and snuck in the newspapers… WTF!!! Several kilograms worth! 20kg or so…

    No offence, you have got GOOD NEIGHBOURS!

    • anthem29 on 19/11/2017 - 22:17

      huh?

      • [Deactivated] on 19/11/2017 - 22:19

        Which part?

        Regarding the neighbour's son;

        I don't have the balls to tell him the truth about what he is doing wrong, but shouldn't bring his problems into other people's households because I know he is having a hard time always being called a unnatural son by his father. I hope if he is reading this, he should leave home or something. Get Child Protection involved… Maybe I should intervene, but man, I don't know…

        I was editing the previous post but since you replied it won't let me. (Meant to slot this in after the midnight to 2AM shouting part.) I work late into the night so can always hear the father…

        I highly suspect the rat thing is just a conversation opener… Bleh, but I haven't seen any rats around at night or day. I don't have any inside my house either… I might go ask the other neighbours to see if it is indeed a yarn.

        Never seen the child's mother, never asked.

    • [Deactivated] on 19/11/2017 - 22:47

      Elaborating on the bottles and paper only comment.

      What can go in my recycling bin?

      You can put the following things in your recycling bin (remember to place items in loosely to assist in the sorting process):
      Paper and cardboard
      Aluminium and steel cans
      Empty aerosol cans
      All plastic containers with the recycle triangle and numbers 1-5, these include yogurt, ice-cream and take away containers
      Glass bottles and jars
      Milk and juice cartons
      Pizza boxes
      Aluminium foil and trays

      What can’t go in my recycle bin?
      Do not put the following items in your recycle bin:
      Plastic bags
      Soft plastics such as cling film and bubble wrap
      CDs, DVDs and VCR tapes
      Polystyrene
      Batteries
      Ceramics and crockery
      Glass from broken drinking glasses, windows or mirrors (controversial because most glass bottles break when they tip it from the yellow bin, but no means no. lol.)
      Waxed cardboard
      Food scraps
      Chemicals
      Nappies
      Light globes
      Medical waste
      Electronic waste (Controversial as neighbour apparently allows electronic waste in their yellow bin, although technically they aren't throwing the silicon chips and circuit board parts in the yellow bin.)

      Loose plastics are also not apparently accepted. e.g. lid which you are meant to remove from the bottle and throw in the red bin… Not many people do this though.

      I wish everyone would just stick to the normal recycling stuff. We already get enough contaminated waste. If you don't know, just throw it in the red bin. The council rates go up for everyone when it gets contaminated. I wish my neighbours would realise what is proper recycling. For all we know during sorting they are just going to throw the printer parts into the trash and levy the council.

      • Nousernamehere on 20/11/2017 - 15:05

        Different councils have different things that can be recycled.

        My council here in Perth can recycle plastic bags and cling wrap/bubble wrap.

        ​What goes in my yellow bin?

        Bubble wrap - clean aluminium foil and trays - cling wrap / glad wrap - glass bottles and jars - long-life milk and juice cartons - loose plastic shopping and cereal bags - paper and cardboard - plastic containers - polystyrene - tins, cans and empty aerosols - wrapping paper - product packaging - bottles, tins, cans

  • anastasiastarz on 20/11/2017 - 03:47

    Confront them. Btw our neighbour doesn't believe in recycling and dumps it all in the same bin. Where can we report them?

  • AlienC on 25/11/2017 - 07:55

    Pop up scare contraption? Like a laughing clown or something glued to the inside of your recycling bin lid. Might actually be hilarious if you film it and post the results to YouTube could even get some extra ad revenue cash or sell some clown scaring contraptions haha lol.

    That or maybe worms in a can type offering although maybe they might just steal your worms haha lol.

    I'd go the scary item attached to the inside of the recycling bin route.

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