Responding to Newport City Council’s proposal to reduce bin collections to a three-weekly cycle [1], Green Party councillor for Shaftesbury Lauren James said:
“If this was genuinely about increasing recycling rates, it would have been done a long time ago. This decision is entirely about service cuts.
“It’s not enough to slash a service and hope it increases recycling. Newport is already the worst place in Wales for fly-tipping and litter is a huge problem. What’s going to happen when people can’t get rid of their waste?
“If they are serious about increasing our city’s recycling rates then they must improve their recycling offer, not take services away which some families are dependent on.”
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