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Rubbish on the footpath outside.

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starone | 08:47 Mon 01st Oct 2012 | Law
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Monday is collection day so I put the recycling box and the small kitchen waste box and the wheelie bin outside on the footpath on Sunday evening. The binmen come very early before I am ready to face the day. If someone falls over it can they sue me or is the council liable for damages? Sometimes the recycling is there until the afternoon.
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sorry starby, i don't know the answer but i presume they could sue you, as it's not the council's fault you put it on the pavement. Are you straight on the road at the front?
We have to do this round our way , if it is not out on the pavement the binmen just leave it .
I would think this is a pretty theoretical problem. Everyone puts bins out the night before, don't they? Pedestrians are supposed to look where they're going.
I don't think you could be liable. Why can't pedestrians look where they're going anyway?
Sometimes our bins get collected before 8am, others it 4.30pm.
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If they can't see it they ignore it. I have tried tucking it into the gateway only to find it still there at the end of the day. I have to put it right outside and this is a main road. Thank goodness I am only here on a temporary basis while work is done on my bungalow. I fetch the boxes in as soon as I see they are done. As we have to put them out at the council's order (not request) I reckon it's their responsibility, but I did wonder.
We don't have bins, we have to use black bin bags, if we put them out the night before we can get fined.
It may depend on the council. I think ours has a set time [before] which bins can't go out.
Blind people can't see the rubbish, so they might fall over it. Does your council state a time for putting out the rubbish? E.g. before 0800 or something like that?
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Yes bookbinder - before 8 a.m. but even so they are there sometimes all day so there is plenty of time for someone to fall over them. (Sighs sadly - I don't get up until 8 and then I take an hour getting ready - it's one of the perks of getting old.) Thanks for your interest everyone.
Our collection times vary. Totally blind people usually have a helper/stick/dog and they would be going so slowly that at worst they would just bump into the wheelie bin. Our 90 year old widow from across the road is registered - but not totally - blind and experiences few problems. Perhaps it's time to be a nation of carers/neighbours rather than litigants.

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