Help us find the best places for city’s bins (From Worcester News)

Help us find the best places for city’s bins

9:50am Friday 16th July 2010 in Take Pride Headlines By David Paine, @davidpaineWN #worcsnews

KEEP IT CLEAN: Malcolm Cox, operations manager at Worcester City Council, and, right, Roger Knight, deputy leader and portfolio holder for a cleaner and greener city, with the recycling bins in Hylton Road, Worcester. Picture: Paul Jackson. 50387102

THE city council is looking to move bins around Worcester to make sure they are in the most effective places possible – but the help of residents is needed.

Worcester City Council is willing to move or change the capacity of litter and dog bins so people get the optimum use out of them.

The scheme is part of the Take Pride in Worcester campaign, which was launched in your Worces-ter News on Tuesday and is being run in conjunction with the city council and VisitWorcester.

The council hopes that by moving bins to better locations it will mean more people use them, in turn minimising the chance of rubbish over-flowing – something which readers of your Worcester News have complained about.

The idea is also a way the city council can save money and use its re-sources more efficiently at a time when central government is seeking to make as many savings as possible.

Councillor Roger Knight, deputy leader of the council and cabinet member with responsibility for cleaner and greener, said: “We don’t have the money for any more bins because we would need another vehicle, another member of staff, another crew.

“To do that now at a time when we are facing potential cuts would be silly.”

The city centre has 234 bins out of the 444 litter bins in the whole of Worcester. Large dual recycling and litter bins are a fairly recent addition to the city’s street scene with the first two being installed on foot and cycle routes near Croft Road car park, off Castle Street, and at the foot of Sabrina Bridge in Hylton Road last December.

One such bin – which contains household-sized wheelie bins and costs about £1,000 – has recently been installed on the High Street near Elgar Statue.

There are also 240 dog bins in Worcester.

Coun Knight said moving bins around the city has already been successful to a degree but urged as many as possible to contact their local councillor if they feel any of the bins are not in the right place, are never used, or are used too much.

“If you have an issue about the location or size of a bin, contact your local councillor,” said Coun Knight.

“Hopefully we can all work together and come up with a consensus where bins might be moved from one location to another.”

To find your local councillor, log onto worcester.gov.uk or call 01905 722233.