Three quarters of non collections for resident’s bins in Belfast are due to parked vehicles denying access for bin lorries, City Hall statistics revealed this week.
At a special Belfast City Council committee meeting looking at city waste services, elected representatives slammed the Stormont Department for Infrastructure for failing to turn up, despite being asked to attend.
Councillors called the failure to turn up to the meeting by the Stormont department “pathetic,” and “a disgrace,” with some highlighting that the dominant reason for failed bin collections related to a problem only the Stormont department could solve - that of residential car parking.
