Time to clean up smelly city

A story in Friday’s Stirling Observer regarding a council decision to exclude charities and churches from new waste collection charges due to be introduced prompted a response on our Facebook page.

The council initially identified 996 bins as being subject to the commercial recycling charge, including 160 belonging to charities and churches, in an attempt to generate revenue for the waste collection service which has an overspend of almost £500,000.

Facebook users voiced their concerns on the city’s bin problems

Liz Kirkhope said: “Stirling city centre is an absolute disgrace and getting worse. The bins are overflowing, bin bags are lying everywhere, pavements are stained and a lot of areas actually smell.”

Donna Perrie said:“It’s sad the state Stirling has become, and it’s full of tourists too, The place needs a good power wash to clean it up. Other cities are immaculate in comparison. It’s a disgrace.”

Victoria Struthers added:“I pay for commercial uplifts, I have one wheelie food bin per week on the street, the rest are collected from the rear of my shop by the company. Yet I am subjected to commercial bags being stockpiled outside my shop kerbside from other establishments which the seagulls decimate. Where have the wheelie bins gone that Stirling Council used to provide? No wonder the place is slated for being dirty. Walking along Murray place today multiple food bins lying waiting to be collected, no lids, no bags, vile and stinking. Business owners need to step up too.”