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This petition was submitted during the 2015-2017 parliament

Rejected petition Stop the Bin collections going to 3 weekly instead of every 2 weeks.

We are already over run with street litter making our towns look untidy, in some areas vermin rule the streets and hygiene is a concern due to over spilling bins.

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Our councils are notifying is that bin collections are changing from every 2 weeks to every 3, it's already a strain so what are the councils thinking?
Let's try to stop this happening

This petition was rejected

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