Bin men are finding food bought during panic buying dumped. It has prompted an exasperated town hall boss to issue an online plea for common sense.
Donna Hall, Executive Director at Bury Council, took to Twitter to highlight the scandal. Last week she posted a picture of a wheelie bin, with its lid open due to being piled high with unopened loaves of bread and other food.
She wrote: "The after effects of all that panic buying...what our waste collectors are seeing up and down the country this week...bins stuffed with waste at a time when disruption to bin services is happening to coronavirus." Today, the borough's Director of Operations, in charge of frontline services, ranging from waste and recycling to street cleaning and parks,