Exeter residents may be billed for putting the wrong rubbish in green bins
Thursday, August 28, 2008, 07:20
City councillors are being asked to levy a charge to pay for the removal of contaminated bins in a bid to curb the persistent problem.
On average, refuse collectors in the city are refusing to empty 25 green bins a day because they contain waste such as food, glass or dog mess.
As the Echo has previously reported, workers have even found dead cats and an elderly woman's ashes in a casket in green bins.
For full story, see Thursday's Echo.
Peter Delaney, education and enforcement officer at the Exeter Recycling Centre, looks for the wrong type of waste people have put in the green recycling bins. Inset, how the Echo reported Donna Challice's brush with the city council over recycling MATT AUSTIN EE270808_MA1_31
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