Kingston Borough- rubbish and recycling

Have you ever seen scattered

rubbish on your road after the bin men have collected your rubbish and

recycling? If yes then you are like many citizens of the Kingston Borough who

experience the litter on their roads. Every Monday evening I go up and down my

road collecting rubbish after the bin men have been, and to my dismay the

amount of litter left on the ground is in such abundance. The problem is

largely due to the small size of the bins provided by the council causing the

overflowing of rubbish and recycling. Also the carelessness of the bin men adds

to the amount of rubbish haphazardly strewn and left on the roads. Families are

allocated a certain sized rubbish bin which is expected to endure two weeks of

family waste, other boxes are given for recycling. The size of the bin varies

according to the amount of family members, an average size bin is given to a

family of four and then bigger bins are given to larger families. As a large

family of 7 we find it increasingly difficult to manage with a bin originally

destined for a family of four, we have contacted the Kingston council to swap

for a larger bin, but they have failed to provide.  However Kingston can be commemorated for the amount

of effort they have put into improving the original form of collecting rubbish

which was even more inefficient.

Daisy Morris