THE CHEEK

I’ve just been out to empty my rubbish into my blue bin for collection tomorrow, only to find that it was full of somebody else’s boxes.

I wouldn’t have minded if they’d had the common decency to ask my permission, but it was obviously done when I wasn’t in.

So now, my own paper rubbish has to wait for the next collection in a couple of weeks!

Anyone else have this problem?

Its probably those ' Good neighbours' of yours who expect a bit of return for opening your car door in the icy weather

Toms top tip, Jump up and down in the blue bin to compress the paper,

I go mad if my wife puts a complete box into our blue bin. I break all the seams and put them in flat.
Same with plastic bottles, pop, milk, washing up liquid etc.. All air should be squeezed out and the top put back on. They take up a lot less space. She doesn't think!
Mind you, she's from Wigan!!

No, Tom. They would definitely ask, but there was one neighbour last year, who swiped my green bin because he was doing their front garden. Again, I hadn't noticed so he got away with it, but, about two weeks later I was home and I heard one of my bins being dragged again. It was the green bin again, and I was expecting the gardener to come that week.

Anyway, by the time I got outside, he was already filling my bin so I called out to him, gave him a mouthful and made him bring it back. I'd never spoken to that particular neighbour before as their language would make a sailor blush. I told him he should have asked, and he said he didn't know if I was in. I said, "if my car's here, I'm here." He's gone now, but it's probably her that used it, and I don't speak to her either.

Now a serious answer,,,
Mrs Plum's first job was a shop assistant in a busy soopermarket where boxes, packaging and paper was a real issue, The manager of the shop had to engage a company to dispose of the waste and the cost was an issue,
If you throw a box in the bin it takes up space so, she had to collapse the boxes and there is an art in it, You don't just crush it but, take it apart at the seams and fold it, It then becomes a ' flat pack' and takes less space in the bin,
I get yelled out a lot for just crushing a box because, old habits die hard

Tonker:

These were whole boxes, and not flattened. If that had been done I could have got all mine in as well. The only reason I'd accumulated so much was because of the snow sticking the bin lid down.

What you do is the right thing but I'm no longer physically capable of flattening stuff nowadays.

Tonker must have bin to same skool as Mrs Plum

Just put your paper waste in one of the boxes and leave it next to your blue bin. Problem solved

First Mate, I never have any large boxes. All mine are small cat food boxes, unwanted ads and menus, that sort of thing.

Tom, having owned several retail outlets in the past I've always had to dispose of large amounts of cardboard from beer cases and Mars Bar boxes to crisps boxes. Collapsing them flat and packing them tight always helped fill the van for delivery. The last few years it all went to Paperchase in Westhoughton. They take the plastic too, free if you deliver yourself!

Oh., and Mollie, all unwanted ads and council mags, posted through the door by Royal Snail, are posted straight back into their post-box at the end of my road!

Posted by: mollie m (8210) View mollie m's page

First Mate, I never have any large boxes. All mine are small cat food boxes, unwanted ads and menus, that sort of thing.

Replied: 14th Jan 2025 at 23:12

What about the boxes that have been put in your bin by someone else. are there non big enough?
Failing that put yours in a plastic bag at the side of your bin. As long as the bin men see that its paper you should be OK

Thing is, First Mate, those boxes shouldn't have been put in there in the first place because my bins are for my use - no one else's - so it's a matter of principle that I don't feel that I should try to exert energy of which I have little left, to accommodate them!

There'll be hell to pay if I find out who's done it.

Mollie a top tip for a frozen lid using a gloved hand or a cloth make a fist and using the bottom of your hand tap the centre of the lid gently and that will break the iced up edge

My bins and my neighbours bins are not sure which house is home. We have an agreement that if needs be each can borrow a bin, this occurs especially with green bins.,

Same with us Anne, we are also very neighborly.

Posted by: mollie m (8211) View mollie m's page

Thing is, First Mate, those boxes shouldn't have been put in there in the first place because my bins are for my use - no one else's - so it's a matter of principle that I don't feel that I should try to exert energy of which I have little left, to accommodate them!

There'll be hell to pay if I find out who's done it.

report them for harassment

Suppose that's better than fly tipping it mollie...even though it's an ignorant practice

Mollie are there no addresses on the boxes

The Bum Cheek!

Posted by: tonker (29010) View tonker's page

Tom, having owned several retail outlets in the past I've always had to dispose of large amounts of cardboard from beer cases

Is that when you sold dodgy ale?

Agree mollie,what a cheek.My daughter lives on a road where dog walkers take their dogs down to the fields and plenty would lean over her fence and put their dog crap bags in her bin and she had endless rows until she put a camera and sign up.

Hey, Bollock-Chops! I never sold 'dodgy' ale! Short-dated, out-of-date occasionally, but not dodgy.
No, not ale. Now, cigarettes, tobacco, high-volume spirits are another matter!

oh, well dodgy stuff in your outdoor

Posted by: PeterP (12036)
Mollie are there no addresses on the boxes

Replied: 15th Jan 2025 at 11:17

Is anyone daft enough to leave their name address on anything they are throwing away. Probably yes.

!st mate this is how the council trace fly tippers by rummaging through the waste to find addresses

Peter: I didn't look as I didn't want to go rummaging, as you said. Also, trying to take stuff out to look for an address would be a bit of a struggle for me these days; me at 5ft and the bin being 4ft tall.

First Mate: You're right about leaving addresses on anything in the bins, but the numpty who did this probably hasn't got the brains to think of that.

Retep: We have a flat over our works offices and the first people who lived in there put a sign on their brown bin, which read: PLEASE PUT YOUR DOG SH*T IN YOUR OWN BIN! How disgusting for anyone to do that.

Mr Biker, Mrs Google just told me this:

Q: Is putting rubbish in someone else's bin fly-tipping?

A: It's actually considered a form of fly-tipping, which is a criminal offence. Fly-tipping is defined as the illegal depositing of waste on land, including waste that is put in someone else's bin without their permission.

We are the same as Anne, and Big Harold.
We have an agreement with our neighbours ( not many neighbours ) when one bin is full, we always have the option of using a neighbours bin. Obviously, we would ask permission first.

We keep our bins in our own back gardens so nobody can steal / use them.
If you leave your bin in the backs at the rear of your property, you are inviting people to deposit excess waste into your bin.

A bit like when you hire a skip