Island households are being urged to keep ‘#OurStreetsNeat’ and ‘#BringYourBinIn’ as part of a campaign to clean up the Island. The campaign aims to encourage residents not to leave wheelie bins or gull proof sacks on footpaths all week. Residents are also reminded not to leave side waste that does not fit in their general household bin/reusable (black bin week) in the street. Bins or gull-proof sacks must be placed out by 07:00 on the day of collection and no earlier than 19:00 the evening before collection. Bins/reusable sacks ‘must’ – the Council says – be returned to your property by 22:00 on the day of collection. Bins left out on the street for days outside of collection times can cause an obstruction to your neighbours. This is especially true for wheelchair and pushchair users or those with sight and mobility issues. Councillor Lora Peacey-Wilcox, Isle of Wight Cabinet lead for climate change, biosphere and waste, says:
“To many, leaving a bin or reusable sack out is seen as nothing more than forgetful. However, it makes life very hard for people with sight loss, parents with pushchairs, and people in wheelchairs who can’t use the pavement. “To help people in your neighbourhood, please make sure any bins or sacks you put out aren’t blocking the pavement on collection day. Please don’t leave them out for any longer than necessary. So let’s keep our streets neat and make sure you bring your bins or sacks back in.”
Natasha Dix, Council service director for waste, environment and planning, adds:
“Bins or sacks left on public pavements for days can lead to hygiene and contamination issues, as well as safety concerns because pedestrians are forced onto the road. “We all have a part in keeping our beautiful Island safe, clean and tidy. This includes the collection crews making sure bins are returned safely to the kerb without causing obstructions to the pavement. “It’s also down to us all, as residents, to make sure we bring our bins or sacks back onto our property after collection. These small actions make it easier for all our community to use the pavement safely.”
Side waste left out on general household week (black bin/reusable sack) is likely to be ripped by vermin/foxes, causing a blight. Items such as plastic rings and cans can also cause injury to wildlife. It is also classed as fly-tip and can be subject to a fixed penalty notice or fine. Under section 46a of the Environmental Protection Act 1990, the Isle of Wight Council can issue fixed penalty notices if householders’ bins or sacks:
- cause an obstruction to neighbours
- restrict access to the pavement or street
- are likely to attract vermin like foxes and rats or are unsightly
The council currently issues letters in the first instance to those who leave their bins or sacks out, to remind them to return these to their property. If you believe you do not have room to store your bin on your property, you may be able to request a reusable sack collection instead. Contact [email protected] or call 01983 823777.
I think they’re right. They can easily be hidden out of sight behind the 90″ TV in the living room.
Island Roads are responsible for pavements so don’t sweat about them Isle of Wight Council. Just focus on things that matter like providing the essential services for which we pay a king’s ransom. Maybe learn how to behave like adults in council meetings too before you issue more patronising advice.
Just bring it in you lazy bugger! If you feel patronised you must be an offender!
Why aren’t the council moaning about all of the cars left parked on or partially on pavements? Why aren’t the council bleating on about pavements made impassible by overgrown trees and bushes in people’s gardens? Why aren’t the council moaning about all the unsafe walls leaning onto pavements and potentially collapsing? I will tell you why. It is because the council is run by useless idiots and everything they do is a knee-jerk reaction to some moaning councillor. They ignore the big stuff like providing reliable essential services and focus on the little things to make themselves seem important while the island goes to wrack and ruin.
Takes me a while to find them after the bin men have been.
The bin men leave a trail of rubbish behind them
every week, yet alone them leaving bins in UNSAFE
places.
For the £2,000.00 plus a year we pay to this corrupt Council
I expect them to replace them.
All about fines and money again,far cough council,stop telling the very people that pay for you what to do,w⚓️,s
So you are one of the ignorant lazy people who cannot be asked to take your bin in?
I think he is trying to highlight that instead of communicating the situation they are taxating it like usual for a UK government. Fineing people for not putting there bins in when most people work 9-5 and come home to find there bins half way down the street is obscene. Police can’t even deal with rapists and drunk drivers and now they are dropping off forthnightly fines for bins ha. Worlds gone mad
Why shouldn’t they say something when people don’t just tidy their crap up? You all moan enough about stuff that pxxxxs you off!!
I remember when bins were collected from the back garden of houses and returned and the Council tax was lower over time more inefficient methods are occurring every thing is sub contracted out and look at the problems it causes Lynnbottom yesterday sub contract and plant machinery not working so the tip was overflowing everything was mixed no recycling because the contractor hasn’t got a back up machine to operate and run properly so maybe the councillor should investigate other than moan
However, it makes life very hard for people with sight loss, parents with pushchairs, and people in wheelchairs who can’t use the pavement.
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However, it is apparently ok for businesses to litter the pavements with chairs, signage boards, barriers, tables and their customers, as well as the council permitting the noisy, anti social buskers, with beat boxes clogging up the street and the traffic officers quite happy to see cars parked with two wheels on the pavement making it harder for people to pass.
Also, it is clearly acceptable from the councils standpoint to allow the likes of wight fibre to close off pavements, forcing people into the road for months on end, whilst they install cables at a snails pace.
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Are u ok mate??? Do u think u might have the wrong story, by any chance?
WHAT ABOUT THE FOLK WHO ARE DISABLED AND HAVE TO WAIT FOR SOMEONE TO TAKE THEIR RUBBISH BIN OFF THE PAVEMENT
The person who put it out there on the pavement is probably more than capable of bringing it back in again by 10pm at night.
WHAT ABOUT THE FOLK WHO ARE DISABLED, TRYING TO GET AROUND INSIDE OF COLLECTION HOURS? ARE BINS ON THE PAVEMENT “NOT” AN OBSTRUCTION BETWEEN 7AM AND 10PM?
The council introduced this system, it’s their fault. No brains, no foresight, no clue.
Agreed,also the way bin men leave bins and bags once empty is problem,just scattered and often you’re own will be half way down road. Not fault of bin men,they are pushed to get job done so company can make profit – no longer a community service!.
Firstly, Foxes are NOT & never have been classed as “vermin” by DEFRA. Us humans have made them urban. Secondly, years ago the binmen used to put your bins back, nowadays they just let go & wherever it stops it stays. They could put them in driveways, close to walls etc but no, they put them anywhere. Maybe moan at them & see where they put them. Check before they come & the majority of people put them out safely, its then returned badly.
Incidentally I have had to have 3 black inserts replaced because the bin lot have somehow lost it or slipped it in the muncher . However on the form for a replacement there is no option for operator error, just lost?, stolen?? or damaged.A little care wouldn’t go amiss, like puttin the bin back where it was taken from, not hard considering most bins have a number on them
I’ve just about had enough of the god-damn finger wagging from this poxy council over another problem they have created and put back on us.
I’m at 5 bins and counting and sick of the things.
Just like the problem of just closing toilets such as the Shanklin front must have about 12 less. Look at supposedly our beach which is also a wreck and then expect visitors to come back in the future?
And removing public waste bins followed by crying about the amount of litter!!!!!
What a load of dictators,bins must be in by 22.00. Why as others mentioned are we paying more and more for less service?. Black bags and tin dustbins worked fine for everyone, now we have to recycle ourselves, put bin out and in and paying for council to then subcontract out to a rich company. Council did and could be running service with own staff and vehicles, make profit out of recycling and charge less in Council Tax.
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I remember the good old days when bin men use to carry bins to the truck
then return them back to the same place.
Nowdays the Numpty’s leave them blocking Pavements etc
Where is Health and Safety, imagine if a disabled person needs to go by on their
mobility scooter.
This is hilarious – Lora Peacey Wilcox, have you seen Sandown High Street – which is causing permanent damage to our tourism industry and residents’ mental health?
Suggest you invest your time and existing laws on enforcement action there before talking about residential bins.
I still remember when bins were bigger in the 80s dad used to put them outside tte gate ready enabling more rubbish maybe if the council wasn’t so petty about size and needs we wouldn’t have to use sacks.
Bloody cheek, if you want to keep the streets neat, keep the feral brats and smackheads off them with cerfews and tags after dark kicking the bins up the road. They are the vermin not the rats and foxes
Ah yes, but if you took the bins in BEFORE night-time there wouldn’t be anything to kick up the road, would there?
They would find something or damage something, ELFs [ evil little fers] always do, no deterrents anymore, just read the court pages
Yes, even punishment isn’t much of a deterrent is it? Makes one think it doesn’t actually work. I wonder why that might be.
Why do we separate our rubbish when the collectors tip the black box into the green bin then empty it all into the truck. Northwood.
Because they know people are idiots, do what us sensible persons do
just put all the rubbish together, they do!
Re-cycling is non existent on the island, if the island cared for
the climate they would not hold fast car events.
What if you have no outside space? The gull proof sack get dirty from dogs weeing up against them and street dirt. Especially when some days my rubbish isn’t collected till 2 in the afternoon. Am I supposed to leave them sat in my flat all week?
And who is going to police this? The binmen leave them un strange positions after emptying a fair bit of rubbish on the floor. Another great idea dreamt up but not enforced
I remember when the bin men used to pick up your dustbin from your property and return it, forget the excuse of health and safety, it’s lazyness on their behalf
No, it’s cost cutting. Fewer staff.
its actually not laziness – it is time and motion studies that drive cost cutting. If residents have to put the bin out on the street ready for collection, it significantly reduces the total time taken for each bin collection, as the binmen, don’ have to go into the property to get it. As each bin collection then takes less time, it means each bin round can be done in less time, enabling the binmen to do more houses each day – meaning less lorries and staff needed overall.
Christ!!! Just bring your bin back in off the bloody pavement! Why are you all arguing about it? Why leave them out? They look awful, worst day ever when we had these bloody bins on the streets and in our front gardens and driveways. They are ugly and bring the sight of our streets and roads down. They do get in the way of everyone trying to walk along not just disabled people and buggy users. The bin men are lazy too, chucking them back or leaving them lying in the road getting them all mixed up. They’re a pain which ever way… but the least we can do for all our sakes is put them back where they belong without moaning about it
I leave one of mine out (not blocking pedestrians) because otherwise cars just use the footpath outside my house as a road (!!) and/or extra parking, despite there being double yellow lines. Even the refuse lorry and postman drive on the footpath!
(Are there different driving rules on the Island? I thought footpaths were reserved for pedestrians?!)
How about the council gets fined every time a dustman knocks a bin over and don’t pick it up again leaving it blocking a pavement
Are you serious…the bin men popped a bag of stinking prawns and didn’t pick it up our street stank for 2 days it was disgusting. Or how about them putting the bins back where they found them rather than across the pavement or open and on the floor . Obviously someone has too much time on hands .