Tenants of another flat put rubbish in my bin

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I think I know who it is, it’s the tenants of one of the two flats that always have overflowing bins. Plus fly tip crap. There’s only 8 people in the flats and they produce more rubbish than my colleague who lives in a house of 8.

On the way to work I put my bag of rubbish in the bin and noticed a load of loose rubbish in there, which wasn’t mine. Didn’t have time to check the full extent of the contents. One of the things was some work boots. Clearly not mine and some colouring pencils.

These tenants have a history of fly tipping and leaving the area in a mess! They have been warned by the housing association countless times. They don’t learn.

Council won’t pick up fly tipping as it’s oh private ground. Have moved a few flytips in the past to go onto the pavement. Bingo! It’s collected! But the fly tipping now is big, heavy and bulky.

Back in the late summer, after our bins were emptied - we had strong winds and blew bins all over the place. I had to pick one up as it was blocking the road. A week later, the tenant said to me don’t touch my bin. I wasn’t going to get my car damaged by the bin or damage the bin.

A couple of weeks later I had a visit from the police saying I been messing around with these tenants’ bins! Absolute BS. Told police that I just picked up a bin as blocking the road and history of the tenants’ ASB. The police went round to say that please stop the overreacting and they wouldn’t be talking to them if you kept the area tidy.

Got no other place to store my wheelie bin.

It’s making me worried that making me feel sick. Im going on holiday later this month and these tenants are going to take advantage and **** take of using my bin,


Using someone’s bin without permission is classed as fly tipping.

What do I do? Probably scour the rubbish (with my wombling gear) to seek out any personal information. Then report to the police with evidence
 
Grab some sellotape and a shotgun shell. Tape the shotgun shell to the lid of the bin, and scribble "try it, I dare you" on a piece of paper and stick it next to the shotgun shell.

Problem solved.

You may need to buy a shotgun though, depending on how this pans out, so factor that in your budget.
 
Probably not much you can do realistically. Can you not ask your landlord to put in some bin sheds so you can lock your own bin away.

You could look at a method for locking your own bin (I'm sure others have been in a similar situation) but would be a bit of a faff to keep unlocking it.

I assume you've got no private gardens etc?
 
Complaining that they're putting rubbish in a bin and not just turfing it in a layby?
Tbh I'd be a bit annoyed if my neighbours, who always have overflowing bins, filled mine up with their ****. Our general waste collection has now gone to three weekly...
 
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I have used a bin lock before but a courier broke it when putting a parcel in the bin. Plus another one which broke when we had heavy winds. Wind blew bin over and bent lock.
 
I know a guy who can get hold of a honey badger in 10 minutes. Place the honey badger in the bin and your problem will disappear.
 
Stop being a whiney ****?

What the **** is wombling gear?
I womble (litter pick) and got a bag hoop, picker, gloves and bags. The latter are a different colour to normal bin bags.

If see anything with personal details, the council, ha and police will get photographs
 
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