Anger overflows over green waste

12:04pm Thursday 12th April 2007

STOCKTON Heath residents are furious over rubbish overflowing from recycling containers in the village.

People are angry that bottles, cans and cardboard are strewn on the ground at the Forge car park because the containers have not been emptied.

The Warrington Guardian has received a number of complaints about the state of the bottle, cardboard and metal-recycling containers located on the lower part of the car park, near St Thomas's Church.

Stockton Heath parish councillor Graham Roughsedge said: "It is a disgrace the council has just left it to look like a rubbish site all because they haven't got the inclination to come and clean it up."

Residents say they are sick of being told to go green but when they make an effort to recycle they cannot leave their rubbish because of the neglected containers.

David Edwards, of Pangbourne Close, Appleton, said: "I feel ashamed to live in an area which looks so filthy.

"It was very smelly when I went down.

"Every container was full. The council wants you to recycle but you can't recycle. It's the council neglecting its duties "Any visitors who come to Stockton Heath and see that will think we live in a dump."

People are also worried the rubbish will attract rats.

A spokesman for Warrington Borough Council said: "Contractors regularly empty bring sites across Warrington, however, the equipment used for removing waste broke down during a collection last weekend and contractors were unable to fully empty the containers.The site has now been fully emptied."