Pix of the day. Monday, July 29th

Richard Wyatt

It shouldn’t be this way. Should flats and terraces have area bins for bags?

Published by Richard Wyatt

Freelance Journalist, broadcaster, columnist and local historian. Director of Bath Newseum. Married and lives in Bath. Interested in local history, architecture and visual display in museums and urban spaces.

7 Comments

  1. Yes they should. We lived in Edinburgh and it worked very well there.

  2. Absolutely agree. This is probably the work of seagulls who are becoming a real nuisance. I used to live in Folkestone where they were a relentless hazard. When communal bins for flats were introduced by the local authority there these unattractive and unhygienic sights disappeared almost immediately.

  3. The problem is caused by residents who put their rubbish out in flimsy bags, often on the wrong day and with food waste mixed in with general waste. It’s invariably the same properties which have the problem. Bit of enforcement might spare us the cost and sight of communal bins.

  5. Yes they should!
    Time to cull the gulls.
    Same old story.
    Bath looking a total mess from seagulls again. Health hazard. Ugly. And this, in a UNESCO city…

  6. Most European cities have larger communal bins, emptied daily. When I lived in Padova, Italy, it became habit on each outing to take one small collection of a type of recycling (paper, glass, plastic etc) and drop it into the recycling area across the square. Same with general waste, though it seemed to me the easy recycling meant very little was left for general waste. Or is it just that more food was sold fresh and unpackaged, so there was not the extraordinary amount of packaging that supermarkets create?
    Even in our iconic crescents, there are spaces at the end where a few larger bins would not be obtrusive, and it would save this weekly blight affecting every inch of our pavements.

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