00:00Hi, my name's Alistair from the Sheffield Star, and I'm down here on the Lansdowne Estate
00:09again where, for the first time in six months, there are mixed recycling bins on site. You
00:13may have been following my stories in the past where I've been talking about fly-tipping
00:16and other issues here on the estate, and one of those is how there's been no recycling
00:19bins here since about Christmas time. But, true to the word the other day, the City Council
00:23on June 10th did bring by these new green mixed recycling bins. When the Council emailed
00:27me about this one, they insisted that these bins are in addition to the existing recycling
00:32services that have been here on site, and in fact they have been mixed recycling bins
00:35here since Christmas this entire time. I'm here to challenge that point because I've
00:39been doing stories here on the Lansdowne Estate for several months now, and in all that time
00:43I've never seen anything other than these blue recycling bins here. I've never seen
00:47any of these mixed ones. And to help my case, I volunteered to throw these away. These are
00:51the mixed recycling bags from one resident here on Lansdowne Estate who, without a car
00:55and able to go to the mixed recycling centre, and with no bins to put them in, has had no
00:59choice but to pile them up inside their balcony for the past seven months. That's right, what
01:03you see here is seven months worth of recycling belonging to one resident who is off camera
01:08right now, is slightly camera shy and doesn't want to be seen, but I volunteered to throw
01:13the recycling out for them to show you just how much the recycling has piled up in that
01:16time and to prove there have been no recycling bins on site here since Christmas time. Are
01:20you sure you don't want to help? It's okay, they're camera shy, it's fine.
01:37Yeah, so that was seven months of mixed recycling from one of the residents here
01:41at Lansdowne who very kindly allowed me to throw those away, wearing gloves of course.
01:46You might be wondering why I did this. This was kind of ridiculous in its own way, but
01:49I maintain it was as a point. The Lansdowne Estates down here have hundreds and hundreds
01:54of residents, hundreds of flats certainly, and all of those have their own waste and recycling
01:58needs. Beyond the issues we've been having with the bin chutes that have been piling up that I've
02:02been reporting on for several months now, another issue is just that in all that time, no mixed
02:06recycling on site, leaving all the people to sort of make it their own way on that one. If you don't
02:11have a friend or a family member who can drive you to the waste recycling centre, you don't really
02:15have an option other than to either throw it in the main waste area or let it pile up in your flat
02:21somewhere waiting for moments like this. I mean everyone here has a balcony, maybe they were
02:25putting it on there, I haven't really asked them where they were keeping it in all this time.
02:28And beyond that, it's all well and good that this mixed recycling bin is back now, but
02:33this is a single bin for glass cans and plastic. And as far as I can tell, each of these bins is
02:40all across the estate, one of these bins has arrived. It's one of these to every block basically,
02:45which contain hundreds of residents at a time. Once again the council and the email me insisted
02:49that this was in addition to the provision that was provided and in addition to existing glass
02:54can and plastic recycling. But no, I've been reporting on the estate here for months now
02:58and there's been nothing but these blue bins here since Christmas time. This is not in addition to
03:04other bins that were here. This is all there has been in that meantime and these have arrived now.
03:09I'm there to serve all these flat blocks all at once. So it's almost taken six months to bring
03:15one mixed recycling bin here for all of these blocks, but I still don't foresee that being
03:20enough of a provision to provide for the recycling of all of these residents essentially. We'll let
03:26it play out I suppose. It's possible that they get emptied once a day and the recycling need is not
03:31that great compared to the domestic waste provision that needs to take care of. But we'll see in due
03:37course and get in touch with the city council as it happens. That's all done for the meantime now
03:41then. I know I've been wearing gloves this whole time, but I really need to go wash my hands now.
03:45I feel kind of gross, but thank you for joining me on this ridiculous expedition.
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