Sharing a black bin

[0lly]

This is a bit silly but here goes. I live on my own and recycle my cans etc. in the blue bin which isn't a problem, but the amount of rubbish I get (tea bags and chip paper etc.) is so small it doesn't even fill a carrier bag in two weeks, so what I do is that I wait while the neighbours put their bin out and then I put my carrier bag in one of their bins.

The trouble is my neighbours don't like it and sometimes I come out of my front door to find a pile of rubbish on my doorstep.

My questions are these
1. Am I doing wrong? I admit I haven't asked them.
2. Am I committing an offence?
3. Are my neighbours committing an offence by littering. As I understand it bins are there to have rubbish put into them, but to take rubbish out and put it by someone's front door surely has to be an offence. They even put rubbish on my step that is not mine.

I feel I would like to stand my ground and I had an enormous row with them yesterday because two of them like to think they own the drive and I feel that if I give into them, my life won't be worth living.

The bin men simply tip the rubbish out of one bin into another anyway and then simply empty the one bin into the back of the lorry.

What course of action do you think I should take, I could use my bin but it seems so silly and I am 68 years of age but fairly fit. Answers appreciated.
Thanks.

[0lly]

Well, I go on a lot of forums but next time I have a problem, like I'm in jail, I will come and ask for help. And you can rest assured that if I do find myself in jail, I WON'T HAVE ASKED. (laugh)

[tamborine]

Burn it & add lots of smoky mowings

[Bazile]

// ..Is this a chat forum or is it for serious stuff? //

What's your definition of 'serious stuff'

[0lly]

/ ..Is this a chat forum or is it for serious stuff? //

My definition of serious stuff would be politics, religion, computer problems, the economy, that sort of thing.

[0lly]

"Burn it & add lots of smoky mowings" (tamborine)

Now that really would get up my neighbours noses. :-)

[Psybbo]

Well, you selected the right topic for your question so you must have seen the options.

[Bazile]

//My definition of serious stuff would be politics, religion, computer problems, the economy, that sort of thing. //

We do those as well - look at the subject headings on the left hand side .

[0lly]

"Well, you selected the right topic for your question so you must have seen the options." (sibton)

Got you. It has been nice talking to you so I will bookmark the forum. It is strange because I have been on one forum (legend/historical) for 12 years and it came to a satisfactory conclusion yesterday so I have more time now. See you.

[Psybbo]

Welcome Olly, it can be fun too

[gness]

I recycle chip paper and put tea-bags on the garden.

[0lly]

I think I ought to bring people up to date. The story so far, are you sitting comfortably : -

I did once put rubbish in my neighbours bin but realising they were unhappy about it, I stopped. Now as it happens there is an empty house down the road that the builders are doing up and the bin which the builders use is in the street. So last week little old me puts my fortnightly 'offering' to the bin men in there. Remember this is an empty house.

Now the cause of all the trouble is my next door neighbour who calmly walked down the road a few years ago and trundled a black bin back to his house to use for compost and it now resides at the bottom of his garden. That's only one thing. Unfortunately my next door neighbours sister lives opposite where the builders are working and she saw me put it in the bin. She phoned my neighbour and he went down the road and got a bag of rubbish out of the bin (not mine, this was a large sack) and deposited it on my doorstep. Can you imagine my annoyance?

So now, when it gets to bin day I am thinking of putting my rubbish in his bin. I am sorry I did not explain it fully before, but it sounded too farcical and all I wanted to know, when all said and done, was whether I would get into trouble for putting my small amount of rubbish in my neighbours half empty bin.

That is all, thank you for listening. :-)

[Barmaid]

OK so now you've given a COMPLETELY different story to your earlier one.

Still, it wouldn't change most answers.

I am sure that neighbourliness includes "honesty". hmmmmmmm.

[Baldric]

Oooooh, Olly has a Debator badge already, thought you had to join in 20+ threads to get one of those?.

[MASS1961]

I'm not going through all these post to see if I'm duplicating but I don't have enough black bin rubbish to put out every week so I don't. I put it out when it's full(ish). That may be be 3 - 4 weeks worth

[wildwood]

Olly, you are building a mountain out of a mole-hill. I dare say that most of the answerers here would have been happy to have you dump your bag in their bin, if you had asked.

This is no different to someone asking to join a line halfway because they are in a hurry.... if they don't ask they get a lot of aggro.

[bunkmoreland]

a quick click on "olly" shows he joined yesterday,and started such a controversial thread on the same day! it happens all the time on here. some people just love to stir it up online and sit back and watch the results!

[bunkmoreland]

another troll wind up,click on the name. REAL people interact on this site for genuine reasons and problems. some smart artifact thinks it's funny to make use of your interest and care :-(