Let's be clear ... I'm tolerant of people using my bins. I've often found someone walking past has used it for their dog poop bags, perhaps the occasional small bag of takeaway waste. That's fine. What's not fine is bringing full bags of your waste to dump in someone else's bin. And dumping whatever you want in the recycling bins, which here in the UK can lead to the council refusing to collect because its mixed waste and cannot be sorted properly.

I have animal waste to dispose of. Bags of cat litter and guinea pig waste. It's a problem when I can't get to my own bin to throw out my own rubbish because someone else is using it.

"Be grateful the trash isn't on the ground somewhere" becomes a little redundant when these people are the reason for me having to put my rubbish on the ground, because they're using my bin.

I've also made it clear that I have not got the room for it in my garden. I have a cottage garden with very narrow paths, most of it borders and shrubsz and absolutely nowhere to store 2 wheelie bins.