Ask Liverpool: Are new super-smart solar bins the answer to the city's litter issue?

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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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00:00Liverpool City Council is trialling a new generation of solar-powered bins to tackle

00:05litter. We have been on the streets to ask if you think we have a problem.

00:09Definitely, definitely, yeah.

00:13It's everywhere you go, you find this everywhere,

00:16and you don't see anyone going out cleaning it up at all.

00:20I think everyone has a problem, doesn't it? You know, with litter, you know, it's just one of those.

00:27In the city centre, yeah, definitely.

00:30There's lots of bins, why can't people put the rubbish in the bin?

00:33The solar-powered bins have sensor technology fitted, and when close to being full,

00:37a compactor is triggered to crush down the litter, allowing the bins to take up to 100%

00:41more than standard litter bins before it needs emptying.

00:45The super-smart bins also send a signal to the waste depot when it's almost full,

00:49which improves the council's collection efficiency.

00:52The first 20 bins are to be installed at a number of high footfall areas across the city,

00:57including parks outside Anfield Stadium and here in the city centre.

01:01But are super-smart solar bins the answer to the city's litter issue?

01:06It will help, but I think we need a bit of education. You know, it's our city,

01:10please don't litter us. It looks dreadful if you have tourists here and there's litter everywhere.

01:16I think it's more of an attitude, really, more than anything, isn't it? You know, with the,

01:20how, you know, people drop little anyway, don't they? So it's one of those.

01:25It might help, but I think there's enough people to get out and clean it.

01:30It'll help, but the people themselves, they're just little oaks, aren't they?

01:36Why don't you just put your, you've got a bag, put it in your bag, use the bins, just feel lazy.

01:41I often think about Bill Bryson's book about Britain, Notes from a Small Island,

01:46first published in 1995, in which, once arriving in Liverpool, he exclaimed,

01:52they were having a festival of litter when I arrived.

01:55Liverpool still has a way to go to clean up our streets.

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