New underground super bins have now been installed in seven locations across Liverpool.
Earlier this year, Liverpool City Council announced the start of a 'waste revolution', with a radical new approach to how household waste is stored and collected. The council's cabinet formally agreed the radical plans that will see an 'underground revolution' of 'subterranean super-bins' rolled out across the city.
The cavernous super-bins come in a variety of sizes, the biggest being able to take up to 5,000 litres of waste, the equivalent to a week’s worth of refuse for 20 houses.
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The uniquely designed smart bins, which are made of steel or reinforced plastic to reduce odours, will issue an alarm when full and will be emptied with a crane lift via a release mechanism in its base. It is estimated the emptying and re-installation process will take less than 10 minutes.
The local authority is hoping the move will tackle major litter and dumping issues in Liverpool. In total the new cavernous receptacles will be installed in 90 sites across the city over the next two years, but progress is already being made.
After the first underground bins were launched in Battenberg, the council has now installed the new underground bins in seven city locations.
The council has now installed new underground bins in the following locations:
Battenberg St – Kensington
Carisbrooke Rd – Walton
Maria Rd – Walton
Moss Grove, Toxteth
Leopold Rd – Kensington
Saxony Rd – Kensington
Empress Rd – Kensington
The council now has five further sites to install the bins in during the first phase of the project, these sites are:
Selina Road – County
Silverdale Avenue – Tuebrook
Toft Street – Kensington & Fairfield
Hayfield Street – AnfieldMaude/Madelaine Street – Princes Park
Some locations may require experimental traffic orders to ensure ease of access for residents and a further consultation exercise would be held.
Joanne Anderson, Mayor of Liverpool, who is also the political lead for Waste Management in the City Region, said: “I want Liverpool to be a zero-waste city and to achieve that we need to be smarter in how we enable people to dispose of what they generate in their homes.
“These subterranean super-bins are going to make a huge difference to the quality of life for thousands of families across huge swathes of our inner-city neighbourhoods.”
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