Free bulky uplifts will be offered to low income households in Edinburgh from later this year as part of a £3 million city clean-up programme agreed by the council.
It currently costs residents £5 per large domestic item to be collected and disposed of but the charge will be waived for some from October through the introduction of a means tested special uplift service.
It is hoped the move will reduce fly tipping rates, after more than 10,000 cases of illegal dumping were recorded across the capital last year.
