It has been six months since the recycling bins were taken away on Sheffield's Lansdowne Estate for "deep cleaning" and never returned. The only recycling bins across the entire estate are blue ones for paper and card. The Star speaks to residents about their frustrations and sees how flytipping remains an issue.
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00:00 Good afternoon everyone, it's Alistair from the Sheffield Star. I'm here on the Lansdowne
00:03 Estate again where I'm back talking to people about the bin situation which I've written
00:08 about a few times now. Do you know there have been no recycling bins here on the Lansdowne
00:12 Estate since about Christmas time?
00:15 Well, alongside the fly tipping issue still continuing apparently, but I came down here
00:22 today to speak to people about the recycling bins. I've been told that since Christmas
00:26 time when the recycling bins were taken away there have been nothing but the blue paper
00:30 and card ones in the meantime. Since then I haven't seen any other recycling bins at
00:33 all for metal, glass and plastic. I've been asking the council about it for a couple of
00:37 months now, due a response soon, but I came down to speak to residents about it and see
00:41 what sort of situation they've had.
00:45 I don't know, they just removed all the bins. There used to be a few bins like the blue
00:49 one over there and then they basically removed it because there was too much mouse or rat.
00:55 Yeah, there was a rat problem around here about six months ago, it's true.
00:57 Well, it was to be honest, but once they removed that and the building has already got shooting,
01:03 but the shooting door is too small and there's not any flat that has got such small bins
01:09 which can fit the shooting. So what do people do? The people after that, they all leave
01:14 their rubbish outside and just make a wall.
01:16 Yeah, it's been awful. They told people to use smaller bins but people don't necessarily
01:20 want to do that.
01:21 Have you looked at that?
01:22 Massive piles of rubbish everywhere.
01:23 It's too small, so you can't fit it in.
01:25 Yeah, we had a story about it in February, I saw it.
01:27 Imagine, I'm a householder, so if I for example see my bin obviously is big, it's like I think
01:33 10 litres or something like this, like this much. So one time I tried it, I said I can't
01:39 fit it inside. What shall I do?
01:42 I live just outside the estate on Cobb Street and it's a problem I think both for the residents
01:48 of the estate and for those who live in the area around them. I don't know whether the
01:53 initial decision was taken because of the rat problem that we have around here, but
01:58 all it's done is make the problem worse because there's more garbage spread about and therefore
02:04 more encouragement for rats to come.
02:06 Hi. That was about, they came down with the chutes decision, they took the bins away and
02:11 put them away in the lockers for example. Have you seen any positive outlook of that?
02:16 Have the rat problem gone down? Any better as far as the fly tipping goes? Anything you've
02:19 seen in the past six months?
02:21 Not really. No, I can't say I have. It feels, certainly the rubbish problem feels worse.
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