Eastleigh’s streets are getting dirtier

Rubbish is slowly building up in Eastleigh’s back lanes! With refuse collectors refusing to take any bin with a lid which is not closed, people are forced either to take it to the tip themselves or leave it lying in the street.

Liberal Democrat Louise Bloom, Council Cabinet Member for the Environment boasted recently that this policy had reduced their collection by 25 tons a week. But what happens to that rubbish?

When the grey bins are collected the refuse is burned to produce electricity, so saving on energy costs and landfill. If refuse has to be taken to the tip or is collected by a special council tidy up team then it goes to landfill at a cost of £40 a ton. So 25 tons not collected by the binmen could be costing Council Tax payers another £1,000 a week for land-fill fees. A weekly grey bin collection would reduce our rubbish, rat and maggot problems.