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BBC News
3 days ago
- Politics
- BBC News
Birmingham residents say rubbish still piling up on some streets
Residents in some parts of Birmingham have said there are still piles of rubbish on their streets, with the city's bin strike in its third month and no sign yet of a workers from the Unite union, who began an all-out strike on 11 March, are in a stand-off with the Labour-run city council over proposed changes to roles and Khan, who lives on Kenelm Rd in Small Heath, said things had improved since the strike's early weeks but there was "still a lot of rubbish around" and she felt the council was not giving residents detailed updates on the deal City Council has been contacted for a response. In a video posted on X on Monday, council leader John Cotton said the authority was working to "clear the backlog of waste" and it had "put a new deal on the table" to end the strikes.A Unite spokesperson said the latest deal had been presented two weeks ago, with the union saying at that time the proposal had been "watered down" from a "ballpark offer" made at conciliation anger over the strikes disrupted a council meeting on Tuesday, with one man escorted from the public gallery after shouting questions at Cotton. "The mountain of rubbish was removed but it has accumulated again," Gerry Moynihan, who lives on Colonial Rd in Bordesley Green, told BBC Radio Moynihan said the current pile at the end of his road was due to a combination of fly-tipping, people dumping their recycling in black bags, and some household waste that had not been council is collecting household waste, partly by using agency workers, but recycling is not being collected during the industrial Moynihan added that, once a few people put bin bags down on a street corner, it soon became a hotspot for others to do the same."We get people who drive [past] with cars, see the pile, think it's acceptable, stop their cars and dump their bags," he Moynihan said there were piles of rubbish on several roads in Bordesley Green, including Cherrywood Road, Imperial Road, and Grove Cottage Road. Ms Khan in Small Heath said she still often saw bin bags on her street corner, adding that there had also recently been fly-tipping of larger items including a sofa."This is a walkway for children to get to school," she said, adding that she had reported the fly-tipping via the Fix My Street website, which sends reports on to councils, but it had not yet been cleared after three weeks. Follow BBC Birmingham on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X and Instagram.
BBC News
4 days ago
- Business
- BBC News
South Gloucestershire bin collections to be every three weeks
Black rubbish bins are to move from fortnightly collections to every three weeks in South council said the move will take place from May 2026, and recycling and food waste will remain as weekly comes as the council awarded a £120m eight-year contract to kerbside waste collectors SUEZ last year to continue picking up the county's Gloucestershire councillor Sean Rhodes said the changes will deliver "better value for money" and help improve recycling rates. The council also announced a free fortnightly subscription for nappies and other absorbent hygiene products will be food waste collections will be expanded to flats, and soft plastic recycling will be rolled out to all households. New black bin vehicles will be brought in to help cut carbon emissions, the council August 2025, about 85% of residents will have a new collection day for black bins and recycling which will be announced at a later Rhodes, who is the cabinet member for recycling and waste at South Gloucestershire Council, said: "Our waste contract has changed, and with this change comes increased recycling options, more efficient and environmentally friendly collections, and ultimately better value for money."We understand that change can be challenging, so to help residents manage their waste during the transition, we're producing a handy guide which will explain the changes and include the new collection dates."The council will follow other authorities in the West in making black bin rubbish collections every three weeks instead of fortnightly, including North Somerset Council.
BreakingNews.ie
4 days ago
- General
- BreakingNews.ie
Dublin City Council vows to end waste collection via plastic bag in next two years
Dublin City Council has vowed to end collection via plastic bin bags over the next 18 months to two years. Although the vast majority of households use bins to collect their waste, some parts of the inner city continue to use plastic bags. Advertisement The situation arises because many of the small terraced houses and apartments in the area lack sufficient room for bins. As a result, they have been exempted from the requirement to use them. This week, Irish Business Against Litter revealed that Dublin's north inner city is the most littered area nationwide. This has been attributed to the continued use of plastic bags for the collection of rubbish. Dublin City Council spokesperson, Derek Kelly, told Newstalk Breakfast on Tuesday that all cities struggle with littering. 'It's not just the north inner city, there are other areas and other areas of the country that have similar issues,' he said. Advertisement 'What we need to be conscious of is, the public have to do their part too. 'The city council is putting significant resources into trying to improve the visual amenity of the city and tackle littering. 'We've recruited over 100 additional staff in the last 12 months to improve our operations. 'We're investing significant sums in a new, modern fleet which helps us wash and scrub over 27km a week of our city pavements - so, when people come into work in the morning, the city is as clean as it can be.' Advertisement Mr Kelly indicated that the city council does 'have a plan' to end the of plastic bags. However, he stressed it was not an 'easy task'. 'We are just ready to go on a pilot area off Grafton Street - there are 90 streets around Grafton Street,' he said. 'We have all the arrangements in place; we have two waste compactors that we placed at two strategic locations in that area. 'Customers of the private collectors will have a number of options for disposing of their waste. 'We do intend to move that throughout the city; we have an equally sized area in the north city, covering Henry Street, O'Connell Street, Abbey Street and the surrounds. 'Then we'll be moving further out into the suburbs and urban villages.' Mr Kelly insisted that the days of plastic bags on the streets of Dublin are coming to an end. 'We're all in agreement that the days of plastic bag presentation are ending,' he said. 'And it will be gone within the next 18 to 24 months.'
BBC News
4 days ago
- General
- BBC News
Weekly bin collections in Leicester could be scrapped
Weekly bin collections in Leicester could be brought to an end, city council documents suggest.A consultation over the future of the service revealed "at least half" of city residents put their black general waste bins out to be emptied each week despite them being less than 75% waste will go into these bins when separate collections for food waste begin next year, according to Leicester City a weekly pick up for general waste would be "inefficient" at that point, the authority added. The council believes reducing the frequency of these collections would reduce the amount going into black bins and in turn increase recycling. It would also save the authority cash when it comes to handling household rubbish, the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS) services could also see changes, documents suggest, with the authority considering swapping Leicester's orange bag recycling system for a recycling bin. The council said this will make storing the rubbish easier for those with "indoor space issues" without risk of it being "affected by the weather or animals".If orange bags are retained, the process for requesting and delivering these should also be reviewed and potentially simplified, the report added. The LDRS said concerns were raised by residents over the proposed new food waste collections, which would likely see households given a new kitchen caddy and a main outside bin. Some 68% of people said they were most worried about bad odours when it came to the new requirements and 60% feared it would attract people said they would prefer to use caddy liners in the new bins, as opposed to putting the waste straight into the council said it would consider providing liners city mayor Elly Cutkelvin previously said: "With changes to national legislation, we need to consider how we keep bin collections and recycling services simple to use, reliable and cost effective while ensuring that we all do our bit to recycle more and protect the environment."
BBC News
12-06-2025
- Politics
- BBC News
Norfolk council considers waste bin collections every three weeks
Cutting waste bin collections to once every three weeks is being considered by a idea is being looked at by South Norfolk District Council as a way to help reduce costs, with a meeting told collecting general waste less frequently could help increase recycling some councillors were sceptical, suggesting it could result in a build-up of unpleasant waste, including used nappies.A meeting of the scrutiny committee was told the council's cabinet would discuss the idea in more detail at a later date. Currently, general waste bins are collected every to the Local Democracy Reporting Service, the proposal to make changes emerged in discussions about the implementation of weekly food waste collections, which will be introduced next government is requiring councils to bring in the service and Conservative-run South Norfolk recently started buying the necessary vehicles and is planning to start phased collections from the deadline of April next year but said it would not be able to procure enough vehicles for a full district rollout immediately. The upcoming changes to waste collections has led to the authority looking at other aspects of the service, with officials asked to consider how reducing the frequency of non-recyclable waste collections could help to increase recycling rates and cut councillor Deborah Sacks said changing to collections of general waste every three weeks would be "a big step" and wanted to know more about how much they would Kathryn Cross warned making such a change would be "complicated"."Added to the fact that you have waste like nappies and things, which, building up over three weeks is not going to be very nice," she said. Follow Norfolk news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
