| Comment | That is my thinking, the countries the councillor used as an example were South Africa and Norway who reduced the amount of public bins and residential bin collections. Now, I might be very wrong here, but I can't imagine councils in those countries saw a load of bins overflowing and thought "yeah, let's just get rid of them and the problem goes away", I am thinking it started with, as you mention, a cultural and educational shift which meant the bins weren't being used as much so it became logical to remove them.
Just from my own experience living in Kraków they have so many more bins than we have in Glasgow, pretty much every traffic junction with a crossing, all bus/tram stops, and they are regular along pavements. As I would often use their inbuilt ashtrays at the time, I saw inside most were close to empty. Now I'm not sure if that's down to them being emptied more often (funnily enough you don't pay much attention to refuse collection times when bins aren't overflowing) but I would have said there would have been a good case there to remove some bins. When, in Glasgow, you only have a few big bins that are overflowing, I can't see the logic in removing them. |
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