A COUNCILLOR has expressed his disgust at the ‘totally unacceptable’ amount of contaminated recycling bins in the back of Darwen streets.

Cllr Roy Davies has claimed he has spotted over 100 recycling bins in the Sudell ward of the town that have food waste in them and other rubbish that should not be in there because it can not be recycled.

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Many of the streets, such as Cavendish Street and Greenway Street, are almost end to end full of overflowing grey bins.

Cllr Davies said that the action needs to be taken He said: “This is a situation that has become totally unacceptable and something needs to be done.

“We have a lot of good residents in this ward, don’t get me wrong, but it only takes one bad person to stuff the wrong things in their bin and then you get a chain reaction going on.

“There should only be clean waste going in the grey bins, the burgundy bins are the ones for general waste such as food.

“The main problem is the residents doing this but I do think that someone at the borough council is going to have to bite the bullet at some point and empty them out and hand out new ones.

“Then what I suggest we do is monitor the area after we’ve emptied them, then hopefully we can find out who the people are that are doing this.”

Other streets that had several contaminated bins in them were Perry Street, Olive Lane, Garstang Street and Newton Street.

The issue of contaminated bins in back streets has been going on for some time in the town.

Back in November last year, areas such as Olive Lane and Tythebarn Street were experiencing rat problems due to enormous fly tips and contaminated recycling bins.

Cllr Davies received three calls in one week at this time about the vermin with people claiming there was not enough inspectors looking at the back streets.

A Blackburn with Darwen Council spokesman said: “Bins that are not first sorted by the occupants will be cleared in the next few weeks.

“The bins are being contaminated by residents who are not putting the correct items in their recycling bins.”

For more information on this, please visit: www.blackburn.go.uk.