Neighbours in Hanham in South Gloucestershire watching recycling rubbish pile up for weeks with no end in sight for the on-going bin strike decided to take action. Facing a ‘hot stinky’ summer with the walk outs set to continue until September, Adam and Kia Payne in Samuel White Road contacted fellow residents in a bid to sort out the recycling gathering on the kerbs.
Kia said: “We have a long road, so it’s really only a segment and we have residents from 10 houses involved." With five weeks of rubbish already piling up, Adam said they had concerns about damaging the environment, risk to wildlife and the potential of fly-tipping. Plus with warm temperatures, they were also worrying about flies in the heat.
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