Bin collection chaos is causing a stink
A KINT RE resident has been left reeling after her refuse was not collected despite all the other bins on the same street being emptied.
Dorothy McMurchy took to Facebook, recently, to express her frustration after her bin was missed.
On ‘The Wee Toon Community Notice Board’ page, she wrote: ‘I am seriously annoyed. Bin should have been emptied on June 2 . I have contacted the relevant dept no less than four times now and it is still not emptied. That will be five weeks on Wednesday. I pay my council tax like everyone else. Unacceptable on every level. Next will be rats.’
In response, Lesley Kean said: ‘I’m also fed up to the back teeth with this bin emptying nonsense. Our councillor is excellent but our MP doesn’t bother to respond to my correspondence.’
And it’s not only refuse collections that are being missed, but also recycling. Jamie Lee Carlin wrote: ‘We never got our recycling collection today so I will be leaving the bags out in the street until they collect them.’
Ms McMurchy responded: ‘At least recycling doesn’t stink Five-week-old refuse does. Have phoned and emailed. Keep telling me it will be dealt with within 4 hours. Wonder whose clock they are going by ’
When asked if they had forgotten to cover her area, Ms McMurchy said that the refuse collectors had emptied every bin on the street, leaving only hers full of rubbish.
After a trip to Glasgow, Ms McMurchy returned to find ‘a stinking bin hoaching with bluebottles’ sitting at the end of her drive. She contacted the council yet again, and joked: ‘Should start taking bets on when or indeed if they ever intend to empty it. Wonder who will clean it out after all this time ’
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Many people were already annoyed by the move from weekly to three-weekly refuse collections, with complaints of increased vermin and bad smells, especially in the summer months.
But now, with pickups being missed, some people have a six-week wait until the next collection, causing frustration to grow.
At a recent Campbeltown community council meeting, one member shared a photo of maggots at the bottom of their wheelie bin.
Councillor Donald Kelly, who runs a pest control company, suggested that this would be a problem in the warm weather. After a rat was found rooting around a bin in February, he said: ‘I have said from the outset that vermin problems will increase with three-weekly collections.
‘We have problems with rat infestations at the moment and this will be exacerbated by fly problems come the summer.’
An Argyll and Bute council spokesperson said: ‘We have not been made aware of any recent missed bin collections in Campbeltown all our collections have been on schedule.
‘We would ask householders in Campbeltown for their support in ensuring bins are emptied on schedule by leaving them out for collection from
am on the relevant collection day.’