Passer-by trashes food waste caddy left on pavement
THIS is the moment an angry passer-by smashes up a foodwaste caddy left strewn on the pavement by a careless bin man.
The footage was captured on CCTV by a resident of Ashfield Road, in the Deeplish area of Rochdale.
The householder, who doesn’t wish to be named, was left without a foodwaste bin for over a week following the incident.
And although the council has now replaced it free of charge, he is calling for bin crews to be more careful when going about their rounds.
The film captures a crew member tossing bin caddies to the ground as he goes along emptying them into one large brown bin.
Later it shows a member of the public walking along the street pulling a shopping trolley behind them. Finding the caddy in their path, they pick it up and smash it on the ground in an apparent fit of temper. The householder says the caddy was ‘totally destroyed’ in the incident and also complains crews are not leaving replacement liners, when requested by the use of a yellow sticker.
Instead they expect residents to flag down the wagon when it arrives and ask for a replacement roll.
While he appreciates the method of emptying all the smaller bins into one larger one makes life easier for bin crews, he also wants them to consider residents.
He said: “They just go around with that for the whole street and empty all the little bins into it, to make life easier for them.
“I don’t have a problem with that, as long as they do it with a bit of care.
“They should be doing their job properly.
“They get paid to do their job, if they can’t do it, they shouldn’t be in the job.”
The resident added: “They are trying to make life easier for themselves, which is understandable. But where the bin is picked up from - put it back where it was.
“That way there won’t be any disturbances because of it being stuck in the way of anyone trying to get by.”
Rochdale council has confirmed that a new bin caddy and liners have been supplied to the resident in question.
A spokesperson said: “One of our supervisors did knock on the door to speak to [the householder] however he was not at home.
“The crew involved have been spoken to, reminding them of the correct procedure in returning emptied caddies to properties to avoid any potential damage by staff or other residents.”