Coventry dad blasts garden waste pile-up after daughter finds rat

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Coventry dad blasts garden waste pile-up after daughter finds rat

Postby dutchman » Thu Apr 23, 2020 4:57 pm

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A dad has criticised the decision to suspend garden waste collections in Coventry after his daughter found a dead rat outside a pile-up of rotting food.

Damon Morris, from Earlsdon, said he understood challenges presented from the coronavirus but not the decision to temporarily axe only brown-lidded collections across the city.

The suspension will have lasted for three weeks by the time they finally resume on Tuesday, April 28 – a move designed to help bin crews focus on recycling and household waste as they combat staff shortages due to Covid-19.

Due to the way the collections fall in different areas of the city, it means some may have to wait another week for their garden waste collection.

Mr Morris said the last collection in his road was on March 25 and his next one is due on May 6 – a six-week wait.

But he questioned why only garden waste was suspended, and why the suspension could not alternate with blue-lidded recycling bins to help ease problems.

Mr Morris, 47, who lives on Nightingale Lane, said: “Our eight-year-old daughter came up to us with a rat in her hand yesterday obviously it had been attracted by the foul smells and rotting food.

“I do not think it has been very well managed as they could have alternated the suspension of the blue and brown collections and resolved the environmental health matter.

“We emailed asking this but they were not prepared to do it.

“I can understand the predicament but that would have been a pragmatic thing to do.

“We won’t have had collections for six weeks and this is at a time when there are rats running around because of the smells and the food, whilst families and children are staying at home.”

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