{"id":11535,"date":"2016-01-28T15:25:34","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T15:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/intercardiff\/?p=11535"},"modified":"2016-01-28T15:25:34","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T15:25:34","slug":"what-a-load-of-rubbish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/global-city\/what-a-load-of-rubbish","title":{"rendered":"What a load of rubbish"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>A few months after reforms in the Cardiff waste collection system, streets in Cathays are dirtier than ever. Is it time to seriously rethink the system?<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11542\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11542\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/IMG_7962.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11542 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/IMG_7962.jpg\" alt=\"This type of view is common in student areas of Cardiff. Photo credit: Julia Mign\u00e9\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/IMG_7962.jpg 640w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/IMG_7962-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/IMG_7962-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11542\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11542 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/IMG_7962.jpg\" alt=\"This type of view is common in student areas of Cardiff. Photo credit: Julia Mign\u00e9\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/IMG_7962.jpg 640w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/IMG_7962-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/IMG_7962-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> Commonly viewed in student areas of Cardiff. \u00a9\u00a0Julia Mign\u00e9<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Early Wednesday morning in Cathays, people are zigzagging in the streets. Shouting and loud noises can be heard, fights can be seen. The party seems to have been going wild. This might sound like a regular scene in this student area but the ones partying are no students. They are gulls.<\/p>\n<p>Fresh waste bags have been dropped in front of every house for collection and the fight for snacks begins between cats, dogs, pigeons and of course gulls. Walking in the streets becomes a challenge in which you have to face the mighty gulls who look ready for a fight if you dare approaching their now claimed rubbish bag.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11548\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11548\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/IMG_7980.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11548 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/IMG_7980-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/IMG_7980-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/IMG_7980-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/IMG_7980.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11548\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11548 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/IMG_7980-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/IMG_7980-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/IMG_7980-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/IMG_7980.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> Gulls are partly responsible of the dirtiness of the streets. \u00a9Julia Mign\u00e9<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>With a very good survival rate and optimal conditions in towns, urban sea gulls have been flourishing in Cardiff. The absence of predators, the higher temperatures and the street light all play an important role in the process.<\/p>\n<p>However, Peter Rock, urban gull expert, says: \u201cThe problem in Cardiff is that lots of people put their waste in black plastic bags. This is not a problem with sea gulls because the sea gulls are just taking advantage of an opportunity. So this is not a sea gull problem, this is a waste disposal problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last July, the city council decided to change its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cardiff.gov.uk\/ENG\/resident\/Rubbish-and-recycling\/Waste-Strategy\/Documents\/WasteInfo.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">waste system collection <\/a>drastically. The goal being to reach a new recycling target of 58% in the year 2015\/2016 after being the worst performing local authority in Wales in 2014. Cardiff Council spent about \u00a31.6m on new wheelie bins. Changes also included reducing black bags from 240L to 140L and a fortnightly limit of three bags per household.<\/p>\n<p>Councillor Bob Derbyshire, Cabinet Member for Environment, says: \u201cThe intention was to replace old bins by new smaller black ones to take the residual waste down and encourage residents to recycle more.\u201c<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11573\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11573\" style=\"width: 169px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/20160120_125625.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11573 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/20160120_125625-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"Rubbish Cardiff streets \" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/20160120_125625-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/20160120_125625.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11573\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11573 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/20160120_125625-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"Rubbish Cardiff streets \" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/20160120_125625-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/20160120_125625.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> Bin bags are easy targets for animals such as cats or gulls. \u00a9Basil Pristouris<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Food caddies are also provided in order to reduce the amount of waste put into the regular waste bins. However, this measure doesn\u2019t seem to have stopped the birds and cats so far in the Cathays area.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Hales who lives in Cathays says: \u201cThere are still things that can\u2019t be recycled and that will have food on them so they [sea gulls] just automatically go straight for the bag anyway.\u201d Another factor raised by some of Cathays\u2019 inhabitants could also be that as people have less bags than before they try to put as much as they can inside, triggering the bags to break down more easily.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that the dirtiest areas in town are populated by students is regularly acknowledged by <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/news\/wales-news\/cardiff-council-set-new-rules-9613069\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WalesOnline<\/a><\/em>. On a survey we launched in January asking people which areas they consider as dirtiest, Cathays and Roath were widely indicated and they are both mainly inhabited by students.<\/p>\n<p>Councillor Derbyshire says: \u201cI think students need to understand that they need to recycle. They are obviously not recycling enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The City Council launched new awareness campaigns this year in collaboration with the Student Union to target this issue. However more than 75% of the students who answered our survey stated that they were not well informed about the waste collection system when they moved in.<\/p>\n<p>In the non-student community, anger at the new system has raised. Comments to our survey included complaints about the new size of the bins, the lack of wheelie bins and the difficulty to get new bags. A respondent also commented \u201cChanges should be made in consultation with residents and not forced upon them after a very limited feedback period during which not many actual residents feed into the process.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11556\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11556\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/DSC_0120-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11556 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/DSC_0120-2-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Raising awareness among Cardiff inhabitants is necessary. Photo credits: Julia Mign\u00e9\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/DSC_0120-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/DSC_0120-2-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/DSC_0120-2.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11556\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11556 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/DSC_0120-2-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Raising awareness among Cardiff inhabitants is necessary. Photo credits: Julia Mign\u00e9\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/DSC_0120-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/DSC_0120-2-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/DSC_0120-2.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> Raising awareness among Cardiff inhabitants seems necessary. \u00a9Julia Mign\u00e9<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Concerns about an increase of flytipping problems have also been raised by Cardiff citizens these months.<\/p>\n<p>Judith Woodman, leader of the Liberal Democrats in the council, told <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/news\/local-news\/new-smaller-rubbish-bins-fuelling-10383772\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wales Online<\/a><\/em> in November: \u201cI\u2019ve had a lot of people who do recycle well say, \u2018No, I\u2019m sorry the new bin is not a good size at all. It\u2019s not going to help my family whatsoever.\u2019 And I do think it\u2019s going to lead to some fly\u00adtipping.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The council is denying any increase in flytipping following the launch of new waste collection system but has been tackling the problem by sending thousands of warning letters to residents who were putting their waste the wrong way. Recycling mistakes if repeated after the issue of a warning can incur in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-wales-south-east-wales-35441226?ns_mchannel=social&amp;ns_campaign=bbc_wales_news&amp;ns_source=twitter&amp;ns_linkname=wales\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fines<\/a> up to \u00a3100.<\/p>\n<p>However, these warning and fines do not seem to improve the situation in Cathays so far. As confirmed by Mr Hales: \u201cMost time you can\u2019t walk in straight line down the streets because you have to avoid bits of rubbish. There is even a tree down the road where somebody has thrown a bin bag in the branches.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So as long as the situation stays like this, the gulls will keep shouting, fighting and partying every Wednesday morning and people zigzagging through the streets to avoid bits of rubbish will keep being the norm.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11551\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11551\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/Cardiff-Waste-collection-system-Infographic.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11551 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/Cardiff-Waste-collection-system-Infographic.png\" alt=\"Cardiff Waste collection system Infographic\" width=\"800\" height=\"1227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/Cardiff-Waste-collection-system-Infographic.png 800w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/Cardiff-Waste-collection-system-Infographic-196x300.png 196w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/Cardiff-Waste-collection-system-Infographic-668x1024.png 668w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/Cardiff-Waste-collection-system-Infographic-768x1178.png 768w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/Cardiff-Waste-collection-system-Infographic-500x767.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11551\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11551 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/Cardiff-Waste-collection-system-Infographic.png\" alt=\"Cardiff Waste collection system Infographic\" width=\"800\" height=\"1227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/Cardiff-Waste-collection-system-Infographic.png 800w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/Cardiff-Waste-collection-system-Infographic-196x300.png 196w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/Cardiff-Waste-collection-system-Infographic-668x1024.png 668w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/Cardiff-Waste-collection-system-Infographic-768x1178.png 768w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/Cardiff-Waste-collection-system-Infographic-500x767.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> Results of an online survey realized in January 2016. 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