Huge Council Refuse Bins ! Arghhhhhhhh!!!

Emma52
Emma52 Community Member Posts: 132 Empowering
in Housing and independent living

The Council chose a new rubbish collection firm who have delivered huge bins to myself and neighbours. Totally ignoring any disability, frailty or inability to move such large bins. The council is avoiding calls as are the local councillors with only being put on hold as an option when attempting to contact them. One elderly neighbours front door is blocked by these bins and I will do my best to comfort her when she is unable to get in. To be straight I feel it is degrading that we are being left in the position to get this resolved when the Council have full details of their tenants and should have stopped this from happening. It will be like we have to display our inabilities publicly to resolve this.

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  • Kimi87
    Kimi87 Community Member Posts: 8,985 Championing

    Have you tried your local MP?

    Most councils offer an assisted collection service for wheelie bins, has this been looked into/requested?

  • OverlyAnxious
    OverlyAnxious Community Member Posts: 6,327 Championing

    When you say huge, do you mean commercial sized bins or standard sized individual bins?

    Where I live we have a few of the large commercial sized communal bins and they are very difficult to open for anyone short or with limited strength. Someone now leaves them open (unsure whether it's a resident or the bin men) but then it smells awful, of course. I'm not sure how many individual bins would make up the same size as a large one but a few of those would seem more appropriate for a residential setting to me.

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