‘Dumped PPE rubbish is a health hazard’
Anger as waste ditched in wheelie bins
Bin bandit carers have been accused of dumping their soiled waste... in wheelie bins belonging to neighbours.
Furious residents in Erskine say a Renfrewshirebased agency is to blame for causing a health risk.
They say it’s been going on for up to a year, with dirty plastic aprons, paper bed rolls, blue latex gloves and used masks suddenly appearing in their bins.
Mum Emma Barlow, who has a three week old baby girl, said: “This has got to stop, it’s a health risk.
“Our bins are close to where they walk past and they are too lazy to take it away themselves.
“If this is happening here, I would imagine this firm are at it elsewhere.”
Emma is a support worker currently on maternity leave.
She added: “This has been happening since the height of the pandemic last year, and my mum has spoken to them about it.
“I have never actually seen the person or people responsible, but quite often there are gloves, bed rolls, aprons and masks.
“I am a support worker myself and the protocol is always to bag our PPE and then bin it, certainly not in someone else’s bin.”
Eddie Healy, her 64-year-old neighbour in High Parksail in the town’s Park Mains, has lodged a complaint with the firm he suspects.
Some agencies visit residents in the area up to three times a day.
But the ex-Rolls Royce engineer and naval officer said: “I phoned them and they did not take my complaint seriously, denying it was them.
“We have no physical proof as we have not caught them in the act.
“It is disgusting and I think they are carers who don’t care.
“They walk past Emma and I’s wheelie bins to their car, their sheer laziness is a health risk.”
As there is no proof on the PPE dumping, we are not naming the firm.
One Paisley agency denied they were responsible, with a spokeswoman saying: “We follow protocols at all times, which involves putting on PPE inside the house and removing it inside the house, disposing it in our client’s own bin. We have been aware of complaints in this part of Erskine, but there are up to six firms who work in the area. I can assure you we are not responsible.”