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Ask Liverpool: Are new super-smart solar bins the answer to the city's litter issue?
National World - LocalTV
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02/10/2024
Liverpool City Council is fixing its eyes on the sun to help improve litter collection in its major parks and high footfall areas. The Council is set to trial a new generation of super-smart solar bins that reduces the need to empty them.
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Liverpool City Council is trialling a new generation of solar-powered bins to tackle
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litter. We have been on the streets to ask if you think we have a problem.
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Definitely, definitely, yeah.
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It's everywhere you go, you find this everywhere,
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and you don't see anyone going out cleaning it up at all.
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I think everyone has a problem, doesn't it? You know, with litter, you know, it's just one of those.
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In the city centre, yeah, definitely.
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There's lots of bins, why can't people put the rubbish in the bin?
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The solar-powered bins have sensor technology fitted, and when close to being full,
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a compactor is triggered to crush down the litter, allowing the bins to take up to 100%
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more than standard litter bins before it needs emptying.
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The super-smart bins also send a signal to the waste depot when it's almost full,
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which improves the council's collection efficiency.
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The first 20 bins are to be installed at a number of high footfall areas across the city,
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including parks outside Anfield Stadium and here in the city centre.
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But are super-smart solar bins the answer to the city's litter issue?
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It will help, but I think we need a bit of education. You know, it's our city,
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please don't litter us. It looks dreadful if you have tourists here and there's litter everywhere.
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I think it's more of an attitude, really, more than anything, isn't it? You know, with the,
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how, you know, people drop little anyway, don't they? So it's one of those.
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It might help, but I think there's enough people to get out and clean it.
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It'll help, but the people themselves, they're just little oaks, aren't they?
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Why don't you just put your, you've got a bag, put it in your bag, use the bins, just feel lazy.
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I often think about Bill Bryson's book about Britain, Notes from a Small Island,
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first published in 1995, in which, once arriving in Liverpool, he exclaimed,
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they were having a festival of litter when I arrived.
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Liverpool still has a way to go to clean up our streets.
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