Fly tipping
Having been woken early this morning by the screeching sound of massed seagulls I discovered rubbish strewn all over the front of our property and assumed that it was related to the fact that a lot of the neighbours put their rubbish out the night before collection.
Obliged to clear up most of the mess it seemed that it was more likely some casual (or even deliberate)passer-by who had dumped the stuff as there were other small bags in unusual places. Perhaps it was the seagulls trying to save them for later.
Who, in their right mind, seeks out a shady place on a housing estate to deposit bags of dirty nappies, wipes, vegetable peelings etc when they can put it out for normal collection?
Or did it belong to one of the neighbours, most of whom are up early enough not to annoy people by leaving this mess out overnight for the wildlife to disturb and others to tidy away?
Rubbish!
I sympathise about the rubbish, whether left out by your neighbours or dumped by others. I have often put mine out the previous night in the past, when I've been unsure whether I'd catch an early collection in the morning; maybe that's all that happened and "wildlife" took advantage. Neighbourhood cats probably ripped opened the bags. Maybe the zone where early collection starts should move on every few months.
Your story reminds me of a Carnival Day gripe from last year. There's a footpath at the end of the garden with a hedge. I find that "unthinking" people consistently leave quantities of rubbish under the hedge; I suppose it's a case of 'out of sight - out of mind'. Last year on Carnival Day, I found someone had thrown a used disposable nappy into the garden! How "unthinking" (fill in your own phrase!) a person do you have to be to dump (sic) your child's faeces in someone else's garden? My respect for users of the footpath went down. I can't imagine the kind of people who would do this making very good parents. I just hope their children turn out alright.