Wheelie Bin Alarm!

Remove any rubbish they put in it, and place it on their front doorstep so they trip over it. Put a notice on your bin, and paint your flat/house number on it.

Failing that, put a lock on it. Only remove the lock when you put the bin out.

Hmmm, I may need to raid through their rubbish so I can leave the correct rubbish on the correct doorstep.

We already have our flat number and name on the bin, they totally ignore this.

This morning there were earwigs crawling among the spilt food, shudder.

would could it possibly say to stop lazy bastard neighbours using it?

Try: "NEXT TIME MY AGGRESSION WON'T BE PASSIVE"

If you have ALREADY spoken to the neighbours, then it's hardly passive.

I think a lock is the way forward.

Wheelie Bin Gravity Lock

While that binlock looks quite good this is not true is it? Commercial and house hold customers will soon have to pay for non-recyclable waste known as "Pay as you throw". I mean commercial customers pay anyway I think but householders will continue to pay through the council tax.

No, there are plans afoot to charge per kilo of domestic waste via some kind of monitor to be fitted to the wheelie bin .... I think pilot schemes have already begun in some towns. There's been a bit of a hoo-ha about it in the press recently.

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Ha ha CJ, I've just been looking at the same site.

Yeah, fitting a lock is the way to go, most definitely - hopefully this will encourage them to use their own bins but I worry they'll just start leaving the rubbish lying there when the bins get full because it's obviously too much effort to drag them a few metres to the street to be emptied once a week.

What happened to having a bit of pride? We've given up on plans for our garden because to access it we now need to step over the remnants of an old kitchen, two bathtubs and the earwigs.

Nobody sweeps or mops their part of the close, if something gets dropped or spilt it's left there. We're the only ones who mop regularly but the couple directly opposite us benefit from it, the pigs.

If you have ALREADY spoken to the neighbours, then it's hardly passive.

Yes, but my point was that leaving notices about bin usage taped to bins is seen by many to be classic passive aggressive behaviour.

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But rumpie you are in the right! I get so fed up of hearing people going on about rubbish and litter and never doing anything about it. Some people will never learn (and will undoubtedly be the bastards who go out and flytip if this PAYT thing ever becomes reality - which I have to say I am dubious about, I can't find any info or any councils that have actually started a scheme beyond fitting some chips to some bins and that Daily Mail article recycled (ahem) all over the place) but if a few people were a bit more like you it might just shame a few people into following your example.

I worry they'll just start leaving the rubbish lying there when the bins get full because it's obviously too much effort to drag them a few metres to the street to be emptied once a week.

Sadly you'll end up having to call the council to complain then, and they'll get fined, or you'll all end up with rats, which will cost the council even more money to get rid of.

Get them one ASBO.

Ok, I don't know why I am reading this (apart from the fact I am avoiding work) but how does this all work? Here we need to buy "waste bags" so there's no way our neighbours could use'em (as they have to be tied). That said, once someone put a recycle bag in front of our door and I didn't realize it was not ours so when it was rejected I took it and after opening realized it wasn't ours. *urgh*

People just think the Rubbish Fairy will take care of it.

My upstairs neighbour and I have a system. She puts the bins out at night, I take them in, in the morning.

The rest of the people in our building do nothing. Bloody renters. I mean, one of them has put this box next to the rubbish bin - not IN the bin, not in a recycle bag or anything - and it's just sat there for weeks, getting rained on. I will probably eventually get pissed off and do something about it, but... grrrr.

It's hard enough with the restaurant next door dumping their trash and now dude with dog who never clears up the dog mess! Argh!

We have big black bins on wheels that are kept in a communal bin area. Each household has one, they hold about three maybe four bin bags, or several plastic bags full of rubbish and it's everyones responsibility to wheel their bin out front for the bin men to empty them.

Sounds simple in theory and it certainly is when you live in a house, but mix in a building full of lazy neighbours and things get a bit, well, taut (if you're me)

And btw I confess to being one of the most passive aggress people out there, I seethe futiley about everything because I fear trying to be assertive will backfire. In other words I'm a coward.

Everytime I become non-passive aggressive, I get some lunatic attacking me. (See the 'Cooler thread.) SO I think passive aggressive is the way forward. Less mad drunk people trying to throttle you in bars.

See I don't want to be attacked, eek!