Traders say customers and tourists have to pass 'horrendous' smelling waste and overflowing bins as waste is left until afternoon to be collected
Traders are kicking up a stink about overflowing bins and scattered rubbish bags plaguing the streets of Caernarfon.
Pictures show the stinking mess business owners have been subjected to, with piles of rubbish and over-flowing bins near to their premises on collection day.
The problem is centred in the Bangor Street, High Street and Northgate Street areas of the town, with the streets “lined full of rubbish.”
Paula Morris-Jones, who owns Paula’s Hairdressing Salon on Bangor Street, said she has made numerous complaints to the council about the trash pile, which she says is a “hygiene and health issues waiting too happen.”
Collection times
She said: “There must be at least eight or nine overflowing bins and piles of black bin bags this morning outside the flats next to my premises and across the road from them.
“The problem is on collection day, the bins aren’t getting collected until 12-1pm.
“Why can’t they collect the waste first thing in the morning before the salon opens?
Paula added: “My clients and customers have to walk past this rubbish.
“It sends off a real odour and smell and I’m concerned they’ll start thinking it’s coming from the salon.
“It’s horrendous and a hygiene and health issue waiting to happen - and something needs to be done as I’ve been complaining to the council for months.”
'Horrendous' smell
While Josephine Davis, who works at Black Dragon Tattoo’s on High Street, said: “There are massive piles of rubbish in black bin bags and an overfilling green wheelie bin outside the shop.
“We are near to a couple of flats.
“Now waste collection has gone to three weeks, the bins are just getting fuller and fuller and creating more work for the binmen.
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“Sometimes, they won’t get to us until 3pm in the afternoon on collection day.
“The smell is just horrendous and you have tourists passing the street - it will only put them off from coming to the town.
“This street is literally lined full of rubbish.”
It comes after a number of photos of overflowing bins have circulated on social media this year.
Shocking pictures showed ‘unsightly’ piles of rubbish and over-filled bins near to flats at Caellepa in Bangor.
Waste collections
The controversial plans to collect household waste just once every three weeks were rolled out in the Arfon, Dwyfor and Meirionydd areas of Gwynedd last year despite opposition.
Recyclable products and food waste collections remain unaffected.
A Gwynedd Council spokesman said: “Officers from the council’s waste and recycling team will visit the area to consider whether any changes to the household waste arrangements are required.”
see-http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/caernarfon-businesses-call-change-bin-11504140
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