Keeping the borough clean
Pages in Keeping the borough clean
- 1. You are here: Keeping the borough clean
- 2. Littering
- 3. Community litter picking
- 4. Solar compacting bins
- 5. Fly tipping
- 6. Enforcing clean streets
- 7. Street sweeping
- 8. Leaf clearance
This section gives information about what we do to keep the borough clean for everyone to enjoy.
Our work involves regular cleaning, as well as responding to incidents (such as clearing fly tips and removing graffiti) and enforcement. We spend over £1 million each year on street cleansing.
Regular cleaning
We carry out regular litter picking, street sweeping and leaf clearance and clean the following areas daily:
- major shopping areas
- local shopping areas
- village centres
- Green Spaces
Litter and dog bins
We provide and empty around 1,100 litter bins across the borough, in places where we expect them to be needed most, such as:
- shopping areas
- promenades
- car parks
- adjacent to educational establishments
- areas identified as litter hot spots
Following a review of our litter bin provision in late 2024, we installed 120 solar compacting bins (which can hold much more rubbish) and removed or re-purposed the litter bins that these replaced. This review is now complete.
Dog and litter bins are emptied regularly depending on their location and usage. Bagged dog waste can be disposed of in general litter bins as well as dog bins.
You can report a problem of a full, damaged or missing bin.