‘Super bins’ to clean up Liverpool

LIVERPOOL is set to become the first UK city to install a series of underground ‘super bins’ in a bid to clean up its streets.

Around 140 of the subterranean bins could be placed in densely populated areas to replace black waste bags and existing communal bins.

Town hall bosses want to create a cleaner waste solution for 27,000 terrace households in hundreds of inner-city streets.

The city council, which spends £9.5million a year collecting and recycling refuse, estimates this approach will radically reduce the city’s litter problem which is three times worse than the national average.

The underground containers – the largest of which can hold up to 5,000 litres of waste – will be accessed via slender onstreet bin ports operated by foot pedals or mechanisms to make them accessible to those with limited mobility.