Pressure Mounts for Weekly Bin Rounds to Return ; Weekly Bin Pick-Up Cost Looked Into

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PRESSURE is mounting on city council leaders to reinstate weekly bin collections in Exeter. Cleansing chiefs are investigating how much it would cost to put every household in the city on a weekly collection. The results are to be presented to the city's scrutiny community committee later this year after a motion was backed by councillors. In October, those parts of the city which still had weekly collections were switched to fortnightly as a way of cutting costs. But since then the Echo has highlighted a growing problem of rubbish piling up in back alleys. The issue was compounded when collections were missed due to the snow and ice and disrupted by the Christmas break.

The crisis led to a vote of no confidence in the portfolio holder Cllr Rob Hannaford, who refused to resign over the issue. Cllr Yolonda Henson, the council's Tory leader, who represents Polsloe, said there had been continual problems with waste since the shake- up. She said: "We have never asked for the whole city to be returned to weekly collections - there is no need where fortnightly collections are working. But we are saying that one size does not fit all. "It would be good to see costings for weekly collections in inner-city areas where there are many houses in multiple occupancy, such as Polsloe, Newtown, St James and Pennsylvania and perhaps St David's. "There is an extra cost for picking up in this area anyway when waste has been put out at the wrong time and, while there is money set aside for emergencies, this cost can't be absorbed all the time."

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Pressure Mounts for Weekly Bin Rounds to Return ; Weekly Bin Pick-Up Cost Looked Into

The motion, put forward by Councillor Tony Wardle, calls for a report to be made on the full cost to the council of going back to a weekly refus...

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