Litter in LEEDS:
Litter binsWe provide and empty litter bins in public areas throughout Leeds. Depending on how busy the area is, we arrange for bins to be emptied either daily or two or three times a week.
Fixed penalty notices
There is a £75 fixed penalty for people who drop litter, including cigarette ends, chewing gum and flyers left on vehicle windscreens and for motorists who throw litter out of their vehicles or allow their passengers to do so. Failure to pay will result in prosecution leading to a fine of £2500.
Street cleaning
We also sweep streets regularly to keep them clean. If there is an emergency such as spillage from a vehicle or large volumes of litter at any one location, the emergency services contact us and we clear up the mess.
To find out which day your street will be cleaned, open up the street cleaning schedule attached to this page. Hold down the Ctrl button (at the bottom left of your keyboard) and F together. Type in the street name you want to look at. Click on search and you will see a calendar which will tell you the date.
http://www.keepbritaintidy.org/news/bigcig.aspx
Three-quarters of English streets are scattered with smoking related litter according to a recent survey by Keep Britain Tidy.
This type of litter is unsightly and difficult to clean up, as the small filters fall into grates and cracks in the pavement, avoiding detection by normal cleaning processes. Cigarette filters are composed of cellulose acetate, a plastic that can take anywhere between 18 months and 500 years to break down and be absorbed back into the environment. It can also lead to toxins leaking into watercourses which pose a serious threat to our wildlife.
We are
- Increasing enforcement
- Increasing cigarette bin provision across Leeds
- Carrying out local PR and media campaigns
- Distributing personal ashtrays to the public
LEEDS FEST . . . creates tons of waste!
A volunteering opportunity exists to be part of Team Recycle. You will receive a free weekend festival ticket in exchange for volunteering for shifts over four days to help facilitate the recycling programme.
RECYCLING in Leeds:
http://www.leeds.gov.uk/page.aspx?pageidentifier=b2474871-8662-44ab-8bf1-d008e9bd435e
In Leeds we still bury most of our rubbish in the ground which costs a huge amount money every year. It is also environmentally unfriendly. We can no longer continue to get rid of our rubbish as landfill.
There are a large number of people that don't have a recycling collection, but we are taking steps to make sure that everybody in Leeds can recycle waste by April 2011.
The government has promised £68.6 million to help us build a waste treatment facility to deal with the waste that we cannot recycle. We want to make sure that the process to buy and build this is site and technology neutral.
In July 2008, we advertised a contract to build and run a 'residual waste treatment facility'. By January 2009, eight bidders had put forward proposals. We short-listed 4 proposals in April 2009, which we narrowed down even further to 2 in February 2010. We have never had a preference for a particular site or technology treatment.
What can we do about it?
RECYCLING in Leeds:
http://www.leeds.gov.uk/page.aspx?pageidentifier=b2474871-8662-44ab-8bf1-d008e9bd435e
In Leeds we still bury most of our rubbish in the ground which costs a huge amount money every year. It is also environmentally unfriendly. We can no longer continue to get rid of our rubbish as landfill.
There are a large number of people that don't have a recycling collection, but we are taking steps to make sure that everybody in Leeds can recycle waste by April 2011.
The government has promised £68.6 million to help us build a waste treatment facility to deal with the waste that we cannot recycle. We want to make sure that the process to buy and build this is site and technology neutral.
In July 2008, we advertised a contract to build and run a 'residual waste treatment facility'. By January 2009, eight bidders had put forward proposals. We short-listed 4 proposals in April 2009, which we narrowed down even further to 2 in February 2010. We have never had a preference for a particular site or technology treatment.
- Autumn 2010 – Public consultation to inform final proposals
- Winter 2010 – Final proposals from two bidders
- Summer 2011 – Successful bidder chosen
- Summer 2011 - Public consultation on planning application begins
- Autumn 2011 – Bidder submits planning application
- Autumn 2012 – Planning decision
- Autumn 2012 – Construction begins
- Summer/Autumn 2015 – Facility starts processing waste
What can we do about it?
- Step 1: You can reduce the amount of waste you produce by buying products with less packaging. You can also waste less food by making a shopping list.
- Step 2: You can reuse items or give things you don't want anymore to charity. You can also use bags for life instead of plastic bags.
- Step 3: You can recycle as much as you can through the our recycling collection services. These include kerbside collections, bring banks and household waste sorting sites.
Below is a example of how the website helps people recycle showing them places to drop off goods so they can be reused and not thrown into the ground.
Maps and links to the site dropings are below:
| Household Waste Site | Waste recycled September 2010 % |
| Calverley Bridge | 99.9 |
| East Leeds | 44.7 - site now closed until Summer 2011 |
| Ellar Ghyll | 70.7 |
| Gamblethorpe | 54.2 |
| Holmewell Road, Middleton | 60.9 |
| Kirkstall Road | 64.0 |
| Meanwood Road | 65.8 |
| Milners Road, Yeadon | 63.7 |
| Pudsey Grangefield | 62.0 |
| Stanley Road, Harehills | 51.8 |
| Thorp Arch | 71.8 |
Calverley Bridge Zero Waste Sorting Site, Calverley Lane, Horsforth, LS13 1NW.
A location map can be found at the bottom of the page.
Opening times
- April to October 9am - 5pm (British summer time)
- November to March 9am - 4pm (Greenwich mean time)
We only accept household waste from Leeds residents at our household waste sorting sites.
If you want to use a van to dispose of your own household waste you can only do so on a Wednesday or a Saturday. This is to help ensure that trade waste is not being disposed of illegally by businesses at household waste sorting sites. Business waste is not accepted at this site.
To dispose of asbestos or other hazardous waste, there is a special procedure you must follow to protect the Health and Safety of our customers and staff. Please see our dangerous and poisonous waste advice.
At this site you can recycle:
- cardboard
- garden waste
- scrap metal
- wood
- paper
- cans, aerosols and foil
- plastic bottles and bags
- glass
- hardcore, rubble and soil
- textiles
- shoes
- books
- engine oil
- vegetable oil
- TVs and monitors
- fridges and freezers
- large electrical appliances
- small electrical appliances
- mobile phones
- fluorescent tubes and energy saving bulbs
- printer cartridges
- car batteries
Opinions:
"People should not throw litter because it makes places look messy. It is horrendous how much litter gets thrown on the streets and roads. This also means that someone else has to tidy up after the dirty people."
"Every morning when I'm on the way to school my mum always has to pick up litter from my garden and put it in the bin."
"I have to pick up litter 3 to 4 times a day after messy people. The litter blows into our school from the streets. I'm always having to pick up other people's rubbish." Mr Gowland.
"I think people should take responsibility for their own mess and then the world would be a much tidier place to live. Also, it's not just about throwing litter away; you can recycle it too."
"Recycling paper helps to preserve trees, and if you recycle plastic we can melt it down and make more plastic things out of it. This means that we would not have as much rubbish in our land fill sites.""We're pledging to do our best to keep streets in the inner-city as clean as we can. Unfortunately, however, there has been an unexpected cut in government funding which leaves us little money to do more."The mobile street cleaning teams provided a fantastic, high-quality rapid response in areas that needed it most and really contributed towards improving the quality of life in neighbourhoods by making the environment more pleasant."So it is with deep regret that we have had to disband these teams. Unfortunately we simply do not have the money to fund the service ourselves now this funding has been taken away, especially when in the current financial climate we are being asked to reduce spending, not increase it."
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