Every week we are finding bags of rabbit waste in our wheelie bin.    Lots of it.   Meani g that we don't have enough room for our waste.

I know the next door neighbours have a rabbit/rabbits.    And they wouldn't have a problem doing this either.   Trouble is, if we confront them about it, they'll deny it.

What to do.    Getting mighty fed up about this, but after having almost 15 years of dreadful neighbours, the peace and quiet is nice now, so don't want to cause a row/bad feeling.   Pity they don't feel the same.

At the moment, we're putting it into their bin, which is overflowing - they don't bother to recycle.

Ideas welcome.

I would speak to them rather than moving the litter, I would just say in a friendly manner that you need the space in your wheelie bin for your rubbish, suggest they ask the council for a bigger bin or a second one. Anything else is liable to elead to bad feeling, just be open, honest and polite :-)

De ja vue, one of my sister-in-laws had this same problem with a new neighbour of hers, not rabbit waste but the neighbour putting their recycle and waste in their bins, meaning they had no room for their own. My brother was working away and she was too shy to go and tell them to stop and didn't want me going over. Sooooo..........

Soon sorted the problem out, I got a piece of A4 paper, stuck it to the bins lids saying in capital letters, PLEASE PUT YOUR RUBBISH IN YOUR OWN BINS, ON YOUR OWN PROPERTY. Never had a problem again. :-)

Some people are either dead cheeky, or they have no concept of private property.

The thing is, if they'd asked we'd have probably said ok as long as there's room at the end of the 2 weeks.    But as they haven't bothered, I'm not inclined to allow it now.

As for being reasonable, I'm afraid I ran out of that a long time ago.   These people take liberties unless you push back.

Thinking of going down the official route and complaining to the council.    At least then it will be on record when the council snoops come round and find the wrong stuff in our bin - and they do come round.

We only have peace now, because I called the police during the last musical assault, which they were involved in.

Carrington
I think they are more than dead cheeky, they are the sort to do just as they please and not worry about anyone else.   There's no such thing as a good neighbour these days :-(

I had this too - I started to put Bungee ties in the bins which is a bit of a hassle to undo (for both us and annoying neighbours) so they stopped - we would leave the bungee ties of the night before the collection when all our rubbish had gone in and put them back on after collection. Depends on wether your neighbours can be bothered with the hassle of getting into your bin.
In our current house the bins are inside a locked garden until the night before collection - the first few times a neighbour put rubbish in I took it out and left it to the side - they soon got the message - if they had asked I probably would have said yes but it's intensely annoying that they do not take excess waste to the dump which is what we do - they are not elderly or infirm , they both drive and do not work weekends - just lazy !
Grrrrrr ! But not worth arguing over I guess.

Speak to the council and see what their advise is?
In the interim Is there any way you can bring your bin into your garden or out of their way??

Bungee ties - they'd just take them off and keep them :(

No way of getting the bin into the gardens, they are too big to go through the gates, and our gate is the backdoor of the workshop, so even less room.   The houses are over 100 years old so different specs for gates etc.   And not built to accomodate wheelie bins.

Not sure the council will be interested.   They weren't when our wheelie went missing for three months - just told us if we didn't find it we'd have to pay for a new one!   

Thinking a lock might be the answer :(

Never thought that one day I might be keeping my RUBBISH under lock and key - the world's gone mad!

Our council says that as the bins are council property, anyone can use them.

It would be brilliant if our council took that attitude JG.    But then they wouldn't be able to accuse anyone of putting the wrong item in the wrong bin ;)

When they issued the bins, no-one in our street wanted them, we have no where to store them safely.   We were told that if we lost them, we'd have to pay amlost £40 for a new one!   They also won't take waste in Black plastic bags UNLESS the bags are in the Wheelies and the top must close properly, or they'll leave it uncollected.   If food waste is fond in the wrong bin (we have three) we get a warning, on the fourth occasion, there's a fine of £100 !

Typical Socialist Stazi council.     All stick and no carrot!

My argument against the bins has always been,  as they are on the public highway, they are public property and we cannot be held responsible for what happens to them, or what is put into them, as it may be anyone putting stuff in - Unless we stand guard over them day and night.

> we have no where to store them safely

There was an article on the news (BBC Breakfast ?) recently about changing the planning rules to make sure that all new properties had somewhere to store their wheelie bins :)

> xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Our council says that as the bins are council property, anyone can use them.

This is what I was told when I complained that the lack of dog bins wasn't exactly encouraging people to pick up. 

They said as long as it was bagged, and I wasn't trespassing onto someone's property then I could use any wheelie bin within reach.

This is the same County Council who fined a lady for dropping a piece of cotton thread from her glove accidentally!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2108777/Grandmother-fined-75-littering-dropping-strand-cotton-gloves.html

The Wheelie bins apparently have chips in them, although the council say "(they) have no plans to use them, they were cheaper to buy that way"

Strange how each wheelie has a sticker with the name and address of the house on it and a bar code, why would they need that, if they didn't, at some point, plan to use the chips?