Fury after Cornish council refuses to collect locals' rubbish bags for 'weeks' because they have the 'wrong coloured handles'

Angry residents successful Cornwall person slammed their assembly for refusing to cod rubbish bags for 'weeks' due to the fact that they person the 'wrong coloured handle'.

People surviving successful England's southwestern extremity person been near 'confused' and 'furious' aft being told their aged seagull-proof sacks with achromatic handles volition not beryllium collected by the assembly anymore.

Instead, bin crews are lone picking up rubbish stored successful the caller 180-litre achromatic handled sacks, which the section authorities person introduced arsenic portion of a caller strategy to 'encourage everyone to trim their waste'.

However, a ample fig of radical accidental they haven't received the caller sacks, meaning they person been forced to proceed utilizing the black-handled bags for their waste.

But the section authorities are present refusing to instrumentality the erstwhile bags and are alternatively leaving them connected the thoroughfare for 'weeks' - forcing 1 nonmigratory to instrumentality her rubbish to a extremity 34 miles away.

Many person condemned Cornwall Council for wasting wealth and resources - calling retired the irony that this strategy is expected to enforce recycling, erstwhile it is 'only causing much waste'.

But the assembly person argued the caller 'standardised' work volition beryllium highly effectual erstwhile it is afloat operational successful each parts of the county.

One resident, Julie Elworthy, 61, has described the saga arsenic 'an implicit nightmare' and a 'waste of taxation payers money'.

She said: 'It took 12 telephone calls, 9 emails, a chat with the region councillor calls to Biffa and nonstop complaints.

'There has been nary accountability - the near manus doesn't cognize what the close is doing.

'But past Wednesday was the past straw - I had to instrumentality our rubbish up to Saltash tip, 34 miles away, it was precise clip consuming but we couldn't permission each the rubbish piling astatine the bottommost of the lane.'

It was lone erstwhile Julie threatened not to wage her assembly taxation - for the archetypal clip successful 42 years - that a bin was delivered to her door, the time aft her warning.

She added: 'The assembly were successful breach of what we were paying for - by paying Council taxation we person been paying for a work that they person not been delivering.'

Julie, who has lived successful Millbrook colony for each her life, has called retired the dire biology consequences from the council's actions, arguing: 'People person their ain bins! It's hardly green.

'Where are the sacks going to spell now? It's brainsick and specified a waste. It is ludicrous.

'We are each funny successful redeeming the planet, but I consciousness truthful atrocious for families who haven't had their discarded collected successful weeks - determination are nappies gathering up.

'It's each conscionable much integrative going into landfill - the assembly are mode off.

'This "service" has been 3 years successful the making and they inactive haven't gotten it close - it's surely not a cost-saving workout oregon an biology one.'

Before the caller strategy was introduced, residents incapable to usage a mean achromatic bin for abstraction reasons bought black-handled seagull-proof sacks from the council.

Due to the caller standardised postulation scheme, locals person been asked to spot their aged black-handled achromatic sacks into the sacks with achromatic handles to beryllium collected and disposed of.

Many residents accidental they haven't adjacent received the caller bins oregon sacks truthful person been putting their rubbish retired connected postulation time successful mundane sacks similar they utilized to, which are not being collected.

Julie says they were informed of the recycling strategy alteration via leaflets to their doorway and newsletters via the parish assembly past November - and they should person had bins successful April, but they were lone delivered past week.

Residents of Cornwall person taken to societal media to explicit their thoughts and queries connected the alteration - with 1 calling the strategy a 'disaster' different describing it arsenic a 'WASTE of taxpayers money'

Someone wrote they had mislaid religion successful the assembly and are requesting a refund of their assembly tax.

They added: 'We don't get a garbage collection, oregon autobus service, oregon person immoderate kids, oregon request societal care.

'We precise seldom spot a policeman. Nor bash we person immoderate religion successful Cornwall Council oregon our MP. Can we person a refund of our assembly taxation please?'

Another said: 'I person been declined aggregate times for an other bin oregon sack and you guys declined to instrumentality my rubbish. Which volition yet go a pile. And yet and I anticipation not volition pull rodents.

'I person been pushed from pillar to station arsenic cipher tin beryllium bothered to assistance me.'

Another said: 'My existent bin is 31 years aged and shows nary signs of breaking immoderate clip soon! What an implicit discarded to halt utilizing it and walk vigor replacing it for nary crushed different than colour.' 

Responding to the criticism, Cornwall Council says the caller recycling and rubbish strategy is aimed astatine 'encouraging everyone to trim their discarded to summation their recycling'. 

As portion of the service, the assembly is asking residents to bounds the magnitude of rubbish they tin dispose of to what tin acceptable into the caller bin oregon protective sack each fornight. 

A spokesperson for the assembly said: 'In bid for our postulation crews to use the caller regularisation for limiting their rubbish they request to beryllium capable to spot intelligibly that lone the caller grey bins oregon white-handled sacks that we person issued are being utilized to enactment retired rubbish and that nary further rubbish containers which residents whitethorn inactive person are being enactment retired for postulation arsenic well.

'We're encouraging anyone who has an existing sack to repurpose it oregon alternatively we tin cod residents' aged sacks erstwhile their caller rubbish postulation starts if they publication it astatine www.cornwall.gov.uk/bindelivery erstwhile the work opens for their area.'