Mum divides Australia after confessing to rubbish bin act – so is it illegal or just frowned upon?
An Australian mother has admitted she fills her neighbours’ bins during rubbish collection evenings when she doesn’t have enough space herself.
Brooke Bliss said her red bins fill up quickly because of the diapers and daily trash that has accumulated from her family of five.
When it’s night, she discreetly throws her trash into the neighbors’ trash bins, which are left outside for collection.
Australian mother Brooke Bliss has confessed that she fills her neighbors’ bins during waste collection evenings, while she doesn’t have enough space herself.
“I wait until it’s dark and put some trash bags in other neighbors’ trash cans,” she said in a video on social media.
Ms Bliss told Yahoo that her ‘lovely’ neighbors didn’t mind her putting her excess waste in their bins, but she knows this isn’t the case for everyone.
“I mean, if your neighbors don’t let you do that, even if they have room in their bin, then you’re going to have the trash in your yard because you have nowhere else to put it,” she said.
She asked if it was illegal or just bad etiquette.
One Australian said that while the waste law was ‘not illegal’, it was definitely ‘disapproved’ of talking about it.
“Everyone has cameras now, be careful,” they said.
“I don’t think it’s a problem as long as it’s in a bag and doesn’t stink,” a second added.
“Be kind to your neighbors and ask if you can,” said a third.
‘I do this every week!’ another viewer confessed.
A spokesperson for Port Macquarie Hastings Council told Yahoo it ‘discourages’ the practice without prior agreement between neighbours
‘Thank God the general waste collection in Vic is done weekly, and I still run out at 9pm in my dressing gown and dump my rubbish.’
‘We ask the neighbors, they ask us… not whether we can, but whether there is room. You have to help each other. If they have room I say why not,” said a fifth.
“I totally do,” wrote another. “Once it’s on the sidewalk, it’s fair game.”
A spokesperson for Port Macquarie Hastings Council said this Yahoo it ‘discourages’ the practice without prior agreement between neighbors.
“Some residents have made neighborly agreements to use each other’s bins, which must be agreed upon by residents,” they said.
‘Unless there is a regulation, the municipality discourages this activity.