Litter Picking at The Beacon

Removing bins from Cornwall Housing areas is deeply disappointing.

Recently, I joined other volunteers for a litter pick around the Beacon in Falmouth. We collected over 100kg of rubbish. Four times the weight of the last litter pick in this area before the public bins were removed. 

I understand the cost pressures on Cornwall Council. However, under this Labour government, the Council received its highest funding increase since austerity last year and will benefit from this Government’s fair funding review and the stability of a 3-year settlement this April.

Public green spaces, like the Beacon, need proper waste facilities, and residents already pay Cornwall Council for services like bin emptying. It is not fair to try to transfer that responsibility to town councils with no funding to cover it.

I have written to Cornwall Council to ask them to reconsider this decision and to continue servicing at least the key bins in public spaces such as parks, green spaces, playgrounds and busy thoroughfares.