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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nMick Rooney, councillor for Woodhouse, said: “In an ideal world we would do it [collect bins] more often, but the problem is we do not have the money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“The more often you take out the bins, the more it costs.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fly-tipping is one of the biggest issues when there is insufficient space for recycling, and Councillor Rooney mentioned that it had increased across the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He said: “It makes the place look horrible, it puts wildlife in danger and if it’s left long enough it will deteriorate and possibly poison the ground and watercourses as well.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The labour councillor suggested people should got to supermarkets or use on-street bins, rather than resorting to fly-tipping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to a survey conducted by Recycle Now in 2020, 93% of UK households believe “everyone has a responsibility to help towards cleaning up the environment.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Matt Bates, 21, a student who lives with seven other students in Broomhill, said: “It’s always overflowing: we’ve always got recycling and it’s piling up. When we try and take it out all the bins are full.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Its not nice when your kitchen is a tip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“If we want a clean kitchen we’d have to throw it in the general waste, but we’re young people so we want to recycle. We don’t really get the opportunity to because the bins are always full.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Veolia, a recycling company who have been partnered with Sheffield City Council since 2001, were contacted but declined to make a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Across Sheffield, blue recycling bins are “overflowing” as residents are forced to stamp down, fold and even leave recycling in the rain to fit it in the bin. Blue bins, which hold plastic and cardboard, are currently collected by Sheffield City Council on a monthly basis, but many believe this is nowhere near often enough. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":53223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[9,58,338],"class_list":["post-53070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorized","tag-sheffield","tag-sheffield-city-council","tag-south-yorkshire"],"yoast_head":"\n