Leaders at Liverpool Town Hall and Westminster have come together to push for more to be done to tackle excessive waste in their communities.
Anger has grown as piles of rubbish and fly-tipping have continued to grow as students head home after their terms at the city’s universities. Disgusting images have shown rising piles of cast offs and rubbish across different wards in the city and in a bid to clamp down on the overflowing bins, councillors and a Labour MP have called for stronger action.
A motion has been submitted to Liverpool Council by members in city centre, Greenbank and Picton wards by five councillors calling on the local authority to hold landlords responsible for the mess left behind by students. The motion details how residents in their respective wards are “disgusted and distressed by horrendous piles of clothes, food, kitchen utensils and personal items dumped onto their streets and in alleyways, with over-flowing and contaminated bins left strewn around, making some streets impassable”.
