Are St. Pete Residents with Private Trashcans supposed to Dump in the Alley Trashcans? (Tampa: home)

[Vgpda]

Some distant neighbors keep rolling their individual home trashcan up to our large round Alleyway Trashcan and dumping their refuse into it every night while they remodel a home.
I tried to tell them to limit their dumping and not fill up my alleyway trashcan as there is no room for me to use my own trashcan.
They called me rude and told me they have every right to use this trashcan as it is a City of St. Petersburg Alley trashcan and they pay taxes?
I have lived here for 25 years and always thought as this trashcan was on the alley way that I live on - it is only shared by me and my direct neighbors on this alley?
Can anyone clarify for me?

[CubsFan20]

Report them to the city...

While the trash can "belongs" to the city, it's for YOUR use only

[mph101]

The alley trashcan is a 300 gal dumpster and while anyone on the alley can use it, as they are not assigned neighbors with individual cans are not allowed. They are not to be used for remodels -construction debris, lawn/tree waste, or commercial use.
These darn dumpsters are nothing but grief. Your neighbors are rude and disrespectful to you and others that need and pay for the alley can. They are to cheap to get a dumpster for their project, or haul it to the dump by other means. I wouldn't hesitate to drop a dime and report them to sanitation.

[KPB]

Ya, the black ones in the St Pete alleys are huge. They don't have many alleys in Tampa anymore so we roll our cans out to the street.

It wouldn't bother me personally. I'd just be satisfied enough that they were throwing the stuff in a dumpster and not dumping it in an alley somewhere.
Most of the time there's another can within 100' anyways.

But you can report them for putting trash in a trash can if you want too and just hope they don't dump it in a field or alley somewhere.