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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