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Residents in Henley, South Oxfordshire have said the new recycling bins that are being distributed to households throughout the district are potentially dangerous to the elderly, and are staging a boycott.
Additionally, residents are calling the 280-litre and 240-litre bins are an “eyesore” for their town that is dependant on tourism, and are threatening to revert to using bags for their trash.
One local resident said to the Henley Standard: “We are thinking of putting all our rubbish into bags and putting them on the grass at the top of the close to be collected.”
She added: “If the binmen don’t collect them, then we will have to call the district council and ask them to come back. Rubbish collection is what we pay our council tax for. There are residents here in their eighties and nineties – it would be dangerous for them to move the bins, particularly in bad weather.”
The council, however, is saying that the new wheelie bins will help boost recycling rates, and that eventually, residents will get past the current “teething problems.” David Dodds, the council’s cabinet member for waste, said in a letter to the Henley Standard that he is optimistic about the future of the new bins.
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