City is ‘like a tip’

Dear Editor Stirling Council now wants all businesses to have the same bins as we have at home (Observer, July 4, 2018) .

We will, therefore, need to find somewhere to put four wheelie bins and one food box and have to pay them just under £30 a week to collect our rubbish as they are stopping their free recycling box collection.

As we have no off-street area to keep them, they would need to be left in the main street and if the 30 shops in Friars Street had four bins each then you would have 120 bins in one street.

As the Observer has highlighted on many occasions, Stirling is like a tip which is mainly caused by the council demanding that businesses have their bins out by 8am in the morning, which is when most are closed, so the bins are left out overnight.

Night-time revellers and seagulls, in return, up-end the bins or rip open bags of rubbish, leaving their contents spread around the area and leaving a mess for all to see.

I have suggested as an answer to the problem that decorative bin compounds could be created in different locations. Bins kept there could be emptied daily at no cost. This works well in other areas and countries. However, the latest move by the council regarding recycling could be yet another rip-off charge to add to its coffers.

Andrew Pemberton Pembertons Sewing Machines 21-25 Friars Street Stirling