Move your bin off the pavement
Bins, bikes and parked cars narrow pavements to the point where a wheelchair has to go into the road.
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Why it lands
Pavement obstruction is almost entirely inadvertent and the consequences fall on a predictable group: wheelchair users, blind people, parents with double buggies. The person who left the bin out never sees anyone go into the road to get past it. A pavement needs about a metre of clear width to be usable, which is considerably more than most people imagine when leaving something on one.
How
Bring bins in the same day, and keep them off the pavement entirely rather than against the wall. Park with all four wheels off the footway. Move the neighbor's bin too while you are at it.
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