gair rhydd Monday November 07 2011 | freeword – Est. 1972 | Issue 962
It’s Dodge, Dip, Duck, Dive and Dodge Rubbish
Sheri Hall News Editor
Cardiff Students get competitive Turn to page 5 for more.
Features Disability Special
Turn to Pages 18 - 21
The Swn Issue
The new rubbish scheme has been met with public outcry as Cardiff residents complain about their bins not being collected. Figures show that almost 600 residents have complained to the council about uncollected rubbish since the collection system changed in September. The number of complaints increased by 425% in the first two weeks of the change, where black bags containing residual waste are only collected once a fortnight to encourage residents to recycle in the weekly green bag collection. Cardiff ’s environment boss, Councillor Margaret Jones, said the number of complaints was tiny in comparison - 0.025% - to the 2.28 million collections that took place over the first 5 weeks of the new scheme. Although Cathays is not amongst the worst affected areas for complaints the system has been met with frustration from students: “The fortnightly system is stupid. Once we missed a black bin day and when it came to the next collection we couldn’t fit all of our bags into our wheelie bin meaning we were left with rotting rubbish for another two weeks!” commented Lauren Reynolds, 2nd year UWIC student. Emily Cope, 3rd year English literature student complained that there had been confusion over how bags were to be presented for collection: “We were confused about why our bins weren’t being collected. I had to ring the council who told me that the wheelies have to be on the street and must only contain black bin bags or they won‘t be taken. They should have explained the procedure more clearly.” Continues on page 4...
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